Seventy-five per cent of the country is below the age o twenty five. Sunil is representative of this group-a generation that expects something better than their parents had. If they don't get it, they will be angry. And no family, no country, can withstand the anger. and no family of its young.
It is an exact and precise hell, the life of an unemployed young man in India. For eighteen years you have been brought up as a son; you have been given the best of what your father can afford. In the household, you eat first, then your father, the your mother, the your sister. If there is only so much money in the household your father will do with half cigarettes, your mother wont buy her new sari and your sister will stay home, but you will be sent to school. So when you reach the age of eighteen, you know your worshiped family's expectation behind you. You dare not turn around. You know what is expected of you; you have been witness to all petty humiliation they have suffered to get you to this place, You need to deliver. Your sister is getting married, your mother is sick, and your father will retire next year. It's up to; you carry a heavy burden of guilt from your childhood for having heedlessly taking the best of everything. So when you go out your matriculation certificate or your BA and find there are no jobs. The big companies have stopped hiring or leaving the city altogether, and the small companies with hire only relatives of the people already working, and you family is in Raigad or Bihar and has no influence here-you will look for other ways of making money.
You will look for other ways of assuring your family that their investment wasn't lost, you can take beatings, you can take rejections, but you cant face your family if you don't do your duty as the son. Go out in the morning and come back at night or go out at night come back in daytime if you have to, but take care of the family. You owe it to them, bringing; its your Dharma.
- Powertoni(77-78)
- Maximum City by Suketu mehta
Absurd - Disappearing socks and the supermarket
Tim Harford: a columnist with the Financial Times and also the best-selling author of The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and now the Dear Undercover Economist
I stopped wearing socks because I used to keep losing one part of the pair. Why do socks disappear?
Socks disappear. So forget the socks. The problem is when you lose a sock, you basically lose two socks, because they are matching pairs. We need to look at the Industrial Revolution here. One of the main advantages of the Industrial Revolution was something called interchangeable parts. So when a part of the machine breaks down you throw out the broken part, you slot in the new part and the machine starts working again. You don't have to throw away the whole machine. So you need to apply the theory of interchangeable parts to your socks. And make sure all your socks are the same. So if you lose one sock, fine you lose one sock, but you haven't got all this problem of matching odd socks. And when you lose a sock, you only lose one sock, and you don't lose a pair of socks. So that is my advice. You need to just go out there and buy two dozen pairs of identical black socks. And look (points towards his identical black socks). In my suitcase, there are four more identical black socks. At home I have another twenty identical black socks. Every now on then I go and buy more socks from the same shop. I am frightened that one day they will stop making these socks. But, so far, so good.
I am looking for 'the one'. Is she out there?
I will answer this question using my favorite piece of economics research, which is about speed dating. In a speed date, you have got maybe 20 men, 20 women, 20 tables, 20 candles, 20 large glasses of beer and 20 large glasses of wine, because everyone's going to need a drink.
Each man meets a woman for three minutes. They talk to the women for three minutes, which, of course, is a mistake. They should be listening. But they talk. At the end of the date, they move on and they talk to other women. You get to meet everybody at a speed date. Now, a couple of economists — Michele Belot and Marco Franscesconi — have got hold of data on thousands and thousands of speed dates. And also questionnaires that people filled in about their height, weight, income, education etc. All information that we have never had in the past. And we found a lot of fun stuff. Women like tall, rich, well-educated men. Men like slim, educated women who do not smoke. These things were not surprises.
So what were?
One thing that is a surprise is that on a speed date, where all the guys are attractive or rich, you might think that a women might propose more dates because more people meet her standards. That isn't what happens. What happens is that the woman immediately raises her standards, thinking, "Hey I never realised that the speed dating market was so great!" She raises her standards, and proposes very few dates. Conversely, a speed dating evening where all the guys are short, and they were all smokers, not educated, not rich, you might expect that the woman might not propose any date. But instead, the Bridget Jones part of the brain kicks in. She thinks, "I never realised that the dating market was so tough. I have got to propose some dates." And so she lowers her standards.
I know that what I am saying sounds very sexist. But men acted exactly the same way. They raised or lowered their standards depending on the attractiveness of the pool in front.
So what does that mean for the question you have asked? It means that anybody can be 'the one', you just have to compare them with the right people. This is because we don't have fixed standards, that there is this one person, who is the right person for us. Basically, we are moving our standards up and down all the time depending on what is available.
By the way, if you are ever going on a speed date, make sure you take short, ugly friends with you. It's going to increase your chances.
How do I get hold of the shortest queue in the supermarket?
What I suggest is that unless you have the time to really specialist in studying supermarket queues and trying to be smarter than someone else, just get into the queue and don't worry. And, by the way, probably it won't be the fastest one, because you have one queue on this side, one queue on that side, so two to one, you will have a queue next to you that is faster. But that's life. Sometimes we economists have to take a Zen attitude and that's one of those times.
the above it transcript from interview more here
I stopped wearing socks because I used to keep losing one part of the pair. Why do socks disappear?
Socks disappear. So forget the socks. The problem is when you lose a sock, you basically lose two socks, because they are matching pairs. We need to look at the Industrial Revolution here. One of the main advantages of the Industrial Revolution was something called interchangeable parts. So when a part of the machine breaks down you throw out the broken part, you slot in the new part and the machine starts working again. You don't have to throw away the whole machine. So you need to apply the theory of interchangeable parts to your socks. And make sure all your socks are the same. So if you lose one sock, fine you lose one sock, but you haven't got all this problem of matching odd socks. And when you lose a sock, you only lose one sock, and you don't lose a pair of socks. So that is my advice. You need to just go out there and buy two dozen pairs of identical black socks. And look (points towards his identical black socks). In my suitcase, there are four more identical black socks. At home I have another twenty identical black socks. Every now on then I go and buy more socks from the same shop. I am frightened that one day they will stop making these socks. But, so far, so good.
I am looking for 'the one'. Is she out there?
I will answer this question using my favorite piece of economics research, which is about speed dating. In a speed date, you have got maybe 20 men, 20 women, 20 tables, 20 candles, 20 large glasses of beer and 20 large glasses of wine, because everyone's going to need a drink.
Each man meets a woman for three minutes. They talk to the women for three minutes, which, of course, is a mistake. They should be listening. But they talk. At the end of the date, they move on and they talk to other women. You get to meet everybody at a speed date. Now, a couple of economists — Michele Belot and Marco Franscesconi — have got hold of data on thousands and thousands of speed dates. And also questionnaires that people filled in about their height, weight, income, education etc. All information that we have never had in the past. And we found a lot of fun stuff. Women like tall, rich, well-educated men. Men like slim, educated women who do not smoke. These things were not surprises.
So what were?
One thing that is a surprise is that on a speed date, where all the guys are attractive or rich, you might think that a women might propose more dates because more people meet her standards. That isn't what happens. What happens is that the woman immediately raises her standards, thinking, "Hey I never realised that the speed dating market was so great!" She raises her standards, and proposes very few dates. Conversely, a speed dating evening where all the guys are short, and they were all smokers, not educated, not rich, you might expect that the woman might not propose any date. But instead, the Bridget Jones part of the brain kicks in. She thinks, "I never realised that the dating market was so tough. I have got to propose some dates." And so she lowers her standards.
I know that what I am saying sounds very sexist. But men acted exactly the same way. They raised or lowered their standards depending on the attractiveness of the pool in front.
So what does that mean for the question you have asked? It means that anybody can be 'the one', you just have to compare them with the right people. This is because we don't have fixed standards, that there is this one person, who is the right person for us. Basically, we are moving our standards up and down all the time depending on what is available.
By the way, if you are ever going on a speed date, make sure you take short, ugly friends with you. It's going to increase your chances.
How do I get hold of the shortest queue in the supermarket?
What I suggest is that unless you have the time to really specialist in studying supermarket queues and trying to be smarter than someone else, just get into the queue and don't worry. And, by the way, probably it won't be the fastest one, because you have one queue on this side, one queue on that side, so two to one, you will have a queue next to you that is faster. But that's life. Sometimes we economists have to take a Zen attitude and that's one of those times.
the above it transcript from interview more here
Tech : Tweaks for Computers
Chat With Command Prompt
Chat With Command Prompt
If you want a private chat with a friend or client on you Network, you don't need to download any fancy program!
All you need is your friends IP address and Command Prompt.
Firstly, open Notepad and enter:
@echo off
:A
Cls
echo MESSENGER
set /p n=User:
set /p m=Message:
net send %n% %m%
Pause
Goto A
Now save this as "Messenger.bat". Open the .bat file and in Command Prompt you should see:
MESSENGER
User:
After "User" type the IP address of the computer you want to contact.
After this, you should see this:
Message:
Now type in the message you wish to send.
Before you press "Enter" it should look like this:
MESSENGER
User: 56.108.104.107
Message: Hi
Now all you need to do is press "Enter", and start chatting!
Create a shutdown/restart shortcut on your desktop !
selecting Shutdown or Restart, create their icons on your desktop :
create a SHUTDOWN ICON like this :
Right click on an empty area on your desktop.
Select New>Shortcut.
In the first box of the Create Shortcut Wizard, type : Shutdown -s -t 00
Click Next.
Name the shortcut : Shutdown , and click Finish.
Then select an appropriate icon for it !
Similarly create a RESTART icon but follow the following step instead :
In the first box of the Create Shortcut Wizard, type : Shutdown -r -t 00
Click Next.
Name the shortcut : Restart , and click Finish.
select an appropriate icon for it now
Tech : Decrease boot time
Decrease boot time
I found that creating a script to run on shutdown that deletes the temp folder and history saved 2.5 seconds on my boot time, down do 10.5 secs.
Create a batch file by doing the following:
1) Open notepad and enter the following lines:
RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\"UserName without quotes"\Local Settings\History"
RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History"
RD /S /q "D:\Temp\" <--"Deletes temp folder, type in the location of your temp folder"
2) Save the file and then name is something like deltemp.bat
3) Now click Start, Run and type in gpedit.msc --->Computer Configuration --->Windows Settings --->Scripts and double click on Shutdown --->Click Add and find the batch file you created and press OK to set the script
Speed up your computer:
Increase your L2 cache > Improve Performance >
Correctly set your level 2 cache and improve performance !!
Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT...
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\SecondLevelDataCache. Based on the kind of CPU you have, this value should change. Here are some of the defaults.
Intel Celeron - 128 , AMD Duron - 64. PII and Athalon: 512. Cyrix and AMD K6-3 256. Pentium IV-1024.
Figure out what your CPU type is and what L2 cache it supports and set it accordingly.
To disable right click on your computer..........
* Open Registry Editor (use 'regedit' command in Run)
* GO THROUGH FOLLOWING PATH....
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
* In right side pane create a new DWORD VALUE (Right click and choose New->DWORD value).
*Give 'NoViewContextMenu' as it's name.
*Set the value to 1.
*Now close the Registry Editor and Restart your system....
Now the right click is disabled in your computer.....Even the keyboard shortcuts also might not work.
To get the right click back....
* Open Registry Editor (use 'regedit' command in Run)
* GO THROUGH FOLLOWING PATH....
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
* In right side pane delete the DWORD value 'NoViewContextMenu'.
*Restart your system.
Now you got back your right click menu.
I found that creating a script to run on shutdown that deletes the temp folder and history saved 2.5 seconds on my boot time, down do 10.5 secs.
Create a batch file by doing the following:
1) Open notepad and enter the following lines:
RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\"UserName without quotes"\Local Settings\History"
RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History"
RD /S /q "D:\Temp\" <--"Deletes temp folder, type in the location of your temp folder"
2) Save the file and then name is something like deltemp.bat
3) Now click Start, Run and type in gpedit.msc --->Computer Configuration --->Windows Settings --->Scripts and double click on Shutdown --->Click Add and find the batch file you created and press OK to set the script
Speed up your computer:
Increase your L2 cache > Improve Performance >
Correctly set your level 2 cache and improve performance !!
Open Registry by going to START-RUN and typing REGEDIT...
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\SecondLevelDataCache. Based on the kind of CPU you have, this value should change. Here are some of the defaults.
Intel Celeron - 128 , AMD Duron - 64. PII and Athalon: 512. Cyrix and AMD K6-3 256. Pentium IV-1024.
Figure out what your CPU type is and what L2 cache it supports and set it accordingly.
To disable right click on your computer..........
* Open Registry Editor (use 'regedit' command in Run)
* GO THROUGH FOLLOWING PATH....
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
* In right side pane create a new DWORD VALUE (Right click and choose New->DWORD value).
*Give 'NoViewContextMenu' as it's name.
*Set the value to 1.
*Now close the Registry Editor and Restart your system....
Now the right click is disabled in your computer.....Even the keyboard shortcuts also might not work.
To get the right click back....
* Open Registry Editor (use 'regedit' command in Run)
* GO THROUGH FOLLOWING PATH....
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
* In right side pane delete the DWORD value 'NoViewContextMenu'.
*Restart your system.
Now you got back your right click menu.
Cosmos: Anti-Us....Anti-Matter
yeah yeah...i know you know about antimatter, after watching Angels and Demons you might know a thing or two about anti mater,
but do you really know what is anti matter?
ok its called the god particle blah blah...etc etc
but what it is exactly...why we are so very afraid of it?
well to start with it.its anti us..anti you..........anti me...........anti us
it was given attention first in 1880's . somebody like me was relaxing and he had nothing to do, and a thought was troubling him that everything has opposites...north-south, east-west, black-white, good-bad...and so on...but if looked closely..they were all made of one and the same thing....
thing
this kept intriguing him, thing means matter.....is there a thing with is opposite of matter...hence called antimatter.
so he proposed and all, until it was established that yes there might be a thing called antimatter, then in 1928 Paul Dirac when studied Schrödinger wave equation which incidentally suggested that there is possibility of antimatter being existent after all.
this was story so far...nope..there's more..
it was thought by that time that scientist were trying to make science god by making this thing called anti matter and the Catholics will loose faith, hence it was really tried to suppress, but not on large scale because they were too late for that..
if we look deeper into thing antimatter, it is the smallest part of any thing
for knowing antimatter...fist one must understand matter and atom
take a cube of cheese, cut in half, take the half, cut half again, now you have 1/4th cut that 14th into 1/2 again..do till you have such small part that you cannot possibly divide and cut it into half...that is atom
practically you cannot do that with your kitchen knife
but theoretically you will get atom, atom is the base of matter...
if we go inside atom, we have electrons, protons, and neutrons
electrons- negatively charged particles
protons-positively charged particle
neutrons-no charge
these are the basic things everything on earth has....every matter
so antimatter must be which doesn't have all these?
we don't know yet, we don't know that what it is made off, what is in it?
but what we knew is that, is is anti matter...one which destroys matter,
we know that even a speck of antimatter can destroy and create such a destruction that no human have ever witnessed it
when atom bomb was discovered, people feared it, when nuclear bomb was discovered, people feared it again, and now antimatter is on verge of being discovered, people are making it
im not against making it, but why not know the process of destroying it?
anyway..im supposed to count chickens before they hatch....so
lets look at egg.....antimatter
its reality that when a speck of antimatter comes in contact of anything(matter) it will surely release huge-vast amount of energy..which as shown in Angels and Demons was exactly what would happen.
a small speck would release so much energy which would be equal to many megatons of TNT and many time bigger than nuclear bombs
to be exact one gram of antimatter will be almost equal to 0.042960000000000005 megatons of destructive force
A megaton is a unit of energy approximately equivalent to the energy released
in the detonation of 1,000,000 tons of TNT. Used to specify the energy output, and hence
destructive power, of nuclear weapons.
and to give you an idea about the destructive power of various thing..take a look at table below then decide :)
so now you see how destructive is antimatter.......any doubts?
but do you really know what is anti matter?
ok its called the god particle blah blah...etc etc
but what it is exactly...why we are so very afraid of it?
well to start with it.its anti us..anti you..........anti me...........anti us
it was given attention first in 1880's . somebody like me was relaxing and he had nothing to do, and a thought was troubling him that everything has opposites...north-south, east-west, black-white, good-bad...and so on...but if looked closely..they were all made of one and the same thing....
thing
this kept intriguing him, thing means matter.....is there a thing with is opposite of matter...hence called antimatter.
so he proposed and all, until it was established that yes there might be a thing called antimatter, then in 1928 Paul Dirac when studied Schrödinger wave equation which incidentally suggested that there is possibility of antimatter being existent after all.
this was story so far...nope..there's more..
it was thought by that time that scientist were trying to make science god by making this thing called anti matter and the Catholics will loose faith, hence it was really tried to suppress, but not on large scale because they were too late for that..
if we look deeper into thing antimatter, it is the smallest part of any thing
for knowing antimatter...fist one must understand matter and atom
take a cube of cheese, cut in half, take the half, cut half again, now you have 1/4th cut that 14th into 1/2 again..do till you have such small part that you cannot possibly divide and cut it into half...that is atom
practically you cannot do that with your kitchen knife
but theoretically you will get atom, atom is the base of matter...
if we go inside atom, we have electrons, protons, and neutrons
electrons- negatively charged particles
protons-positively charged particle
neutrons-no charge
these are the basic things everything on earth has....every matter
so antimatter must be which doesn't have all these?
we don't know yet, we don't know that what it is made off, what is in it?
but what we knew is that, is is anti matter...one which destroys matter,
we know that even a speck of antimatter can destroy and create such a destruction that no human have ever witnessed it
when atom bomb was discovered, people feared it, when nuclear bomb was discovered, people feared it again, and now antimatter is on verge of being discovered, people are making it
im not against making it, but why not know the process of destroying it?
anyway..im supposed to count chickens before they hatch....so
lets look at egg.....antimatter
its reality that when a speck of antimatter comes in contact of anything(matter) it will surely release huge-vast amount of energy..which as shown in Angels and Demons was exactly what would happen.
a small speck would release so much energy which would be equal to many megatons of TNT and many time bigger than nuclear bombs
to be exact one gram of antimatter will be almost equal to 0.042960000000000005 megatons of destructive force
A megaton is a unit of energy approximately equivalent to the energy released
in the detonation of 1,000,000 tons of TNT. Used to specify the energy output, and hence
destructive power, of nuclear weapons.
and to give you an idea about the destructive power of various thing..take a look at table below then decide :)
| Seymour Narrows, British Columbia 1958. 1,375 tons of chemical explosives. | 1.375 kilotons |
| Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. | 13 kilotons. |
| Fat man, the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. | 20 kilotons. |
| The Tanguska / Tunguska Event (spelling is in dispute), suspected comet impact in Tanguska, Russia on June 30, 1908. | 10 megatons |
| The Bravo test, one of the Bikini Atoll bomb tests. February 1954, was, at 15 megatons, the most powerful bomb ever detonated by the United States--far bigger than expected. | 15 megatons |
| One pound of antimatter | 19.5 megatons |
| Mount St. Helens May 18, 1980. | 24 megatons |
| The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. December 26, 2004 at 00:58:53 UTC. An undersea earthquake with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake generated a tsunami that is considered one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. | 26.3 megatons |
| Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated 11:32 AM 30 October 1961 (Moscow Time) Such a device could be souped up to deliver a 100 megaton blast. | 50 megatons |
| The third 1883 eruption of Krakatoa | 150 megatons |
| Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast. At full power, a hurricane like Katrina releases 10 megatons every 20 minutes. | 300 megatons |
| World War III, computed as the simultaneous explosion of all known nuclear devices (about 15,000 today). | 10,000 megatons |
| "Dinosaur Killer" Impact of 10-15 km asteroid traveling at 20 kilometers per second. | 100,000,000 megatons or 10^8 megatons |
| A supernova, an explosion powerful enough to destroy a solar system. | one billion billion billion megatons or 10^27 megatons |
so now you see how destructive is antimatter.......any doubts?
Spirituality : Life after Death
all you guys might be wondering what has happened to me, how i come switch myself to this situation :P
relax, i haven't deviated from the original topic of cosmos, universe, but just taking to the other side of theories of cosmos, to be precise, I'm going to talk from Indian point of view.
lets first see whats life.
we can certainly define "not dead" as "alive" or "full of life"
but this is unclear, since we don't have fixed clear and independent definition of life
does life means consciousness?
consciousness in terms of knowing whats going around us, feeling the feel, feeling pain, joy, sorrow etc
seams simple isn't it
but tell me one thing that if this is consciousness then what about those people who as in coma?
they cannot feeling anything in medical terms yet we categorize them as undead or alive
here the whole definition of "life" or "alive" changes
i say, we don't know yet what is life and being alive actually means.
for understanding the meaning or getting definition of life we have to look into our Upanishads they have great deal of knowledge about what i life and what is death
talking of death lets explore this section as well
so what is death
again as it has been defined, death is the state where one looses consciousness
but here we can look towards those unfortunate people who are, or were in coma.
so what is life and death,
it has been question of ages long that what happens after death, what happens to that particular person that dies?
what is lost of him?
to this i would like to introduce you to a well known person, gawd :P
i don't believe in god, but i believe in cosmos, and its also called bhramand
Brahmans actually means big, very big, very very big
it has been clearly stated in Upanishads and Veda Purana's that god is everywhere
by this they actually meant that god is Brahmans,
as i earlier stated in my blogs that matter and energy are inter-convertible.
so?
so whats the deal with this has to do with god or Brahmans,
you still didn't get it?
well think about it, there is this universe, and there is our small earth, on this small earth we are smaller, and in us, yet smaller is our heart and brain, and still smaller are those cells, and it is made up of matter
just the same matter of which the universe,
those cells have energy which is again we get from matters we eat
so aren't matter and energy inter convertible?
then what has "the god" has to do with creation at all?
if matter and energy was inter convertible then there was no need of super power,
or if i say correctly then there was no need of "god", then why in India we have 56 crore god and goddess?
how come they even came into existence
if we go back to over holy books, specially Gita we find Krishna preaching Arjuna when Arjuna said why he would have to kill his own people, and wont he be a sinner,
to this Krishna said the same thing which i have been blabbering but in different language.....he simply said, souls cannot be created nor destroyed, they are always there, only there bodies die.
isn't this similar to what we are discussing today?
coming back to the title, life after death
if we believe Krishna and Einstein then we have something in us that never "dies" or "cease to exists"
what is that, we don't know
who gave us that, we know
yes the universe gave that power to us, in us, to be immortal in some other sense which we have yet to know, yet to discover.
some people say they saw ghost of there loved one
on medical terms they are delusioned, on Adhyatmik terms they have just seen the soul, that particular power of cosmos or universe which has been given to us, and if we continue believing Krishna then according to him those are the souls who haven't overcome earthy values etc etc.....
I'm not comfortable even with this idea and find this very, utterly controversial to even to complete the sentence, as i believe in science and universe, i will just add and say same thing what he said in today's clear language,
when people see ghost, they might come across the power of universe which hasn't yet found balance or enough energy to convert itself into another matter, too keep the balance of universe that energy keeps wandering which might be experienced by some very delicate and sensitive persons.
however, i haven't yet come across any such experience, and my mind says i have yet to understand and receive this awesome power of understand the greater being and heart says that I'm not meant to understand it yet.......................
this might shock you the least that i am and Atheist.
to be continued :)
relax, i haven't deviated from the original topic of cosmos, universe, but just taking to the other side of theories of cosmos, to be precise, I'm going to talk from Indian point of view.
lets first see whats life.
we can certainly define "not dead" as "alive" or "full of life"
but this is unclear, since we don't have fixed clear and independent definition of life
does life means consciousness?
consciousness in terms of knowing whats going around us, feeling the feel, feeling pain, joy, sorrow etc
seams simple isn't it
but tell me one thing that if this is consciousness then what about those people who as in coma?
they cannot feeling anything in medical terms yet we categorize them as undead or alive
here the whole definition of "life" or "alive" changes
i say, we don't know yet what is life and being alive actually means.
for understanding the meaning or getting definition of life we have to look into our Upanishads they have great deal of knowledge about what i life and what is death
talking of death lets explore this section as well
so what is death
again as it has been defined, death is the state where one looses consciousness
but here we can look towards those unfortunate people who are, or were in coma.
so what is life and death,
it has been question of ages long that what happens after death, what happens to that particular person that dies?
what is lost of him?
to this i would like to introduce you to a well known person, gawd :P
i don't believe in god, but i believe in cosmos, and its also called bhramand
Brahmans actually means big, very big, very very big
it has been clearly stated in Upanishads and Veda Purana's that god is everywhere
by this they actually meant that god is Brahmans,
as i earlier stated in my blogs that matter and energy are inter-convertible.
so?
so whats the deal with this has to do with god or Brahmans,
you still didn't get it?
well think about it, there is this universe, and there is our small earth, on this small earth we are smaller, and in us, yet smaller is our heart and brain, and still smaller are those cells, and it is made up of matter
just the same matter of which the universe,
those cells have energy which is again we get from matters we eat
so aren't matter and energy inter convertible?
then what has "the god" has to do with creation at all?
if matter and energy was inter convertible then there was no need of super power,
or if i say correctly then there was no need of "god", then why in India we have 56 crore god and goddess?
how come they even came into existence
if we go back to over holy books, specially Gita we find Krishna preaching Arjuna when Arjuna said why he would have to kill his own people, and wont he be a sinner,
to this Krishna said the same thing which i have been blabbering but in different language.....he simply said, souls cannot be created nor destroyed, they are always there, only there bodies die.
isn't this similar to what we are discussing today?
coming back to the title, life after death
if we believe Krishna and Einstein then we have something in us that never "dies" or "cease to exists"
what is that, we don't know
who gave us that, we know
yes the universe gave that power to us, in us, to be immortal in some other sense which we have yet to know, yet to discover.
some people say they saw ghost of there loved one
on medical terms they are delusioned, on Adhyatmik terms they have just seen the soul, that particular power of cosmos or universe which has been given to us, and if we continue believing Krishna then according to him those are the souls who haven't overcome earthy values etc etc.....
I'm not comfortable even with this idea and find this very, utterly controversial to even to complete the sentence, as i believe in science and universe, i will just add and say same thing what he said in today's clear language,
when people see ghost, they might come across the power of universe which hasn't yet found balance or enough energy to convert itself into another matter, too keep the balance of universe that energy keeps wandering which might be experienced by some very delicate and sensitive persons.
however, i haven't yet come across any such experience, and my mind says i have yet to understand and receive this awesome power of understand the greater being and heart says that I'm not meant to understand it yet.......................
this might shock you the least that i am and Atheist.
to be continued :)
Cosmos -Mysterious Black holes
welcome back if you are here again, and hello if you are first time
for the first times, i hope you know what is black hole
because to know the mystery of black hole, you have to actually know what is exactly black hole.
to put in simple and pure words, black is nothing but a very densely packed mass of gasses and dust, which has so high magnetic field that nothing can escape it, not even light, well, when you read this line, i am making an understatement.
you should get this in your head very loud and clear that even light cannot escape from black hole.
think about it, isnt this like some amazing fairy tale?
well if you get that kind of feeling right now, i would like to welcome you to the universe
welcome to the world since you have taken some time out of your busy schedule :)
in last few post, i mentioned how black holes are formed, to brush that a little, lets revise it point wise
black holes are formed because
1:heavy initial mass of star
2:burning out of fuel
3:supernova
4:compression due to gravity to extreme condition
so these factor determine or tell the story of formation of a black hole
a black can be termed as goon of our universe, like some gangster on loose...who will destroy everything that comes in its way.
and goons are always bad.
what makes them bad? why are they bad? they destroy things that's why?
no thats not the only one reason, but sure its one of the major reason
black holes are, as i earlier said,mass of highly packed gas and dust, today i would like to refine my statement, which would remind you that it is actually a dead star
black holes is mass of highly packed debris of dead star. sounds spooky to me :P
anyway, its actually debris of whats left from star when it die, how?
well see this, a star massive in size, so powerful that it liberates the same of amount of energy in one second as sun take a year to give. and that all, a star which is tens and thousand times bigger than sun itself, just guess the size, what would be like to stay in a solar system with such star and have it as sun, better be the ninth planet for it :P
when star run out of fuel, it extinguishes, what left is lithium or carbon or any higher atmoic number bearing metal in periodic table
for e.g lets assume that its made of carbon
okay, so here we have so much carbon that its ball was many times bigger than sun, suddenly after its off, the whole mass is concentrated not bigger than the sun,in fact many times smaller than sun.
such is the density, such is the compactness, such is the gravity inside.
and this dudes, is the real culprit.
this gravity due to the awesome mass collapsed, is so strong that it simply devourers anything that might be in its way and still be hungry for more. till date never anyone has seen a black hole dying, we have just seen them eating, gobbling up planets-suns-stars-and even galaxies
dont be surprised, there is more to add to this.
have you seen carefully to a glass of water when you stir it with spoon?
what happens?
a vortex is created, right
well imagine something like that big rotating at very high speed, what will be size of vortex
but wait here, aint i wrong about vortex, here on earth when you stir water, you are actually stiring the whole medium, and in space there is no medium, so how can a vortex be there?
when a black hole is revolving it too creates a vortex and the vortex are at its poles, the poles on which it is spinning
this vortex is made up of dust and gas which black hole once devoured, x-rays, u-v's, radio waves and cosmic waves
and believe it or not, these vortex are so long, sometimes even span through and through a galaxy
these vortex are so large and powerful that they can ev
en destroy a galaxy from light years of distance
but these are less destructive from the hunger and striving of the black hole. its mass keeps increasing and hence gravity
nothing can ever come out of it. on earth we k
now that speed of light is so very fast, plus its not made of particle so we cant make a device which can bend light except change the medium, not by attraction
if ever we created it, it will first destroy our planet by attracting everything, including the hot-molten-iron-lava inside, and turning whole planet upside down, well we will talk about it later, light, focus on light.
bottom line we cannot bend light by attraction, but black holes can, there force of gravity is such that it not only bends light but even absorbs it all the way.
your next question must be that, if they dont have there own light (as then name suggest-black) and they dont reflect light visible to our eyes, then how the hell are they detected at first place.
black holes are not pinned at one place, they move, and we humans have a big keen eye up there called Hubble telescope, it keeps 24X7, 365days its eyes looking for changes, when astronomers find that there was a no stars visible in that area and after few years suddenly becomes visible, they match years of photographs and then after there finding they declare that there might be/is a black hole there, destroying things.
such are black holes detected in space.
but i too am still wondering about a fact,
we know that light is energy, infact every thing in this universe is energy as per Einstein energy and mass are inter-convertible, so where is this energy going.....is it being converted into mass, if yes, what kind of mass is that?
what metal/non metal it converts itself?
what will happen when the mass increases like anything and it again becomes very big o initial size but huge mass.
my question is only, 'then what?'
we dont know yet, if you think you know, tell me as well,
why we dont know because our time frame is much smaller than that of stars, like we see moths, they are born and die on same day, there lifepsan is of 24hrs, but from there perspective they are born, become adult, mate and give eggs, and then die, for then we, humans are like those stars to us,, eternal-immovable-dormant-mysterious etc etc
so we have to wait for years, maybe decades, maybe centuries to get an answer of what might be happening to black holes...........
what might happen?
for the first times, i hope you know what is black hole
because to know the mystery of black hole, you have to actually know what is exactly black hole.
to put in simple and pure words, black is nothing but a very densely packed mass of gasses and dust, which has so high magnetic field that nothing can escape it, not even light, well, when you read this line, i am making an understatement.
you should get this in your head very loud and clear that even light cannot escape from black hole.
think about it, isnt this like some amazing fairy tale?
well if you get that kind of feeling right now, i would like to welcome you to the universe
welcome to the world since you have taken some time out of your busy schedule :)
in last few post, i mentioned how black holes are formed, to brush that a little, lets revise it point wise
black holes are formed because
1:heavy initial mass of star
2:burning out of fuel
3:supernova
4:compression due to gravity to extreme condition
so these factor determine or tell the story of formation of a black hole
a black can be termed as goon of our universe, like some gangster on loose...who will destroy everything that comes in its way.
and goons are always bad.
what makes them bad? why are they bad? they destroy things that's why?
no thats not the only one reason, but sure its one of the major reason
black holes are, as i earlier said,mass of highly packed gas and dust, today i would like to refine my statement, which would remind you that it is actually a dead star
black holes is mass of highly packed debris of dead star. sounds spooky to me :P
anyway, its actually debris of whats left from star when it die, how?
well see this, a star massive in size, so powerful that it liberates the same of amount of energy in one second as sun take a year to give. and that all, a star which is tens and thousand times bigger than sun itself, just guess the size, what would be like to stay in a solar system with such star and have it as sun, better be the ninth planet for it :P
when star run out of fuel, it extinguishes, what left is lithium or carbon or any higher atmoic number bearing metal in periodic table
for e.g lets assume that its made of carbon
okay, so here we have so much carbon that its ball was many times bigger than sun, suddenly after its off, the whole mass is concentrated not bigger than the sun,in fact many times smaller than sun.
such is the density, such is the compactness, such is the gravity inside.
and this dudes, is the real culprit.
this gravity due to the awesome mass collapsed, is so strong that it simply devourers anything that might be in its way and still be hungry for more. till date never anyone has seen a black hole dying, we have just seen them eating, gobbling up planets-suns-stars-and even galaxies
dont be surprised, there is more to add to this.
have you seen carefully to a glass of water when you stir it with spoon?
what happens?
a vortex is created, right
well imagine something like that big rotating at very high speed, what will be size of vortex
but wait here, aint i wrong about vortex, here on earth when you stir water, you are actually stiring the whole medium, and in space there is no medium, so how can a vortex be there?
when a black hole is revolving it too creates a vortex and the vortex are at its poles, the poles on which it is spinning
this vortex is made up of dust and gas which black hole once devoured, x-rays, u-v's, radio waves and cosmic waves
and believe it or not, these vortex are so long, sometimes even span through and through a galaxy
these vortex are so large and powerful that they can ev
en destroy a galaxy from light years of distancebut these are less destructive from the hunger and striving of the black hole. its mass keeps increasing and hence gravity
nothing can ever come out of it. on earth we k
now that speed of light is so very fast, plus its not made of particle so we cant make a device which can bend light except change the medium, not by attractionif ever we created it, it will first destroy our planet by attracting everything, including the hot-molten-iron-lava inside, and turning whole planet upside down, well we will talk about it later, light, focus on light.
bottom line we cannot bend light by attraction, but black holes can, there force of gravity is such that it not only bends light but even absorbs it all the way.
your next question must be that, if they dont have there own light (as then name suggest-black) and they dont reflect light visible to our eyes, then how the hell are they detected at first place.
black holes are not pinned at one place, they move, and we humans have a big keen eye up there called Hubble telescope, it keeps 24X7, 365days its eyes looking for changes, when astronomers find that there was a no stars visible in that area and after few years suddenly becomes visible, they match years of photographs and then after there finding they declare that there might be/is a black hole there, destroying things.
such are black holes detected in space.
but i too am still wondering about a fact,
we know that light is energy, infact every thing in this universe is energy as per Einstein energy and mass are inter-convertible, so where is this energy going.....is it being converted into mass, if yes, what kind of mass is that?
what metal/non metal it converts itself?
what will happen when the mass increases like anything and it again becomes very big o initial size but huge mass.
my question is only, 'then what?'
we dont know yet, if you think you know, tell me as well,
why we dont know because our time frame is much smaller than that of stars, like we see moths, they are born and die on same day, there lifepsan is of 24hrs, but from there perspective they are born, become adult, mate and give eggs, and then die, for then we, humans are like those stars to us,, eternal-immovable-dormant-mysterious etc etc
so we have to wait for years, maybe decades, maybe centuries to get an answer of what might be happening to black holes...........
what might happen?
Cosmos - The Fourth Dimension
probably you might be thinking am out of my mind, there is not such thing called fourth dimension,
actually there can be, for ages theoreticians have argued that there is a fourth dimension.
at the end of this blog you will in fact ask yourself, what did i say is it true, or i just wasted your time, blogspot's space and my bandwidth. :P
lets look into history a bit, when newton saw apple falling towards earth he felt something was wrong, he wondered why the apple fell down and why didn't it was there on tree or why it didn't hover in air, why it fell down.
since then after the discovery of gravity he never rested, he did every possible discovery which later on helped us (for few people like me it was burden in schools :P )
then came in Einstein, with his famous theory of relativity, and time dilation theory and space travel theories etc etc,
he was the first guy in fact to propose that there might be a fourth dimension.
first to understand anything about this so called fourth dimension, lets look into the matter which made him curious to even say that there was a fourth dimension.
lets start with dimension, what is dimension, who is it?
the actual defination of dimension is the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height),
did you notice anything in this sentence
the main culprit is this definition itself. it says that dimension is the magnitude of something in particular direction especially length or width or height the definition itself says that there can be only 3 dimension, so people wondered why only 3 factors, why not a fourth one?
to understand it more closely....hoping that you are familiar with class 8 geometry
consider a point,
a point is nothing but a dimensionless thing, it doesn't has thickness, length nor height, it is a dimensionless thing hanging in air which assigns itself to some place in space.
so now we are clear on fact that point is dimensionless thing...next is line
take a point and pull it to some length so as it follows straight motion, what do you get, yes a line.
so i can say, that a line is actually group of points kept close enough and in straight way so they group together to form a line, nice and easy, and since it is made up of points...lots of point so it will have its property of being dimensionless in terms of thickness and height, however it now has some length.
this line now can be rotated through an axis i.e a point
try it yourself ,draw a line and try to rotate it, you will see that you always have to select a point to do so.
so this is fact that line can be rotated only through a point as an axis
next....take 3 more similar lines, of same length and join then such that they are 90º, looks like square to me, to you?
so now we are meeting this new thing called 2 dimensional structure, as it has length and breadth,
now lets rotate this square as well, we can rotate it in two ways, at one apex, i.e point and one at side, i.e length/breadth.
if i take one more identical square and four more line of same lenght side and join two squares by those lines, i get a cube, nice and good, (most of us have seen Rubik's cube), try to rotates this as well, you can rotate it from its apex, a side as well as whole plane.
so we have now been introduced by all three dimensions
but what about the fourth dimension, where will i draw it, its been said that the fourth dimension can be drawn such that it is perpendicular to all the 3 dimension drawn earlier, practically it is not possible, but theoretically, lets see it,
lets assume that there was a flatland, where everything was flat, everything was in 2-D,
people are square, rectangle, triangle, circle, line etc all 2-D.
so these people will know only two dimension, forward-backward, left-right, but not up-down.
these people will see edges of other persons, since they have no height so they don't know about anything like height and up and down,
one day an apple falls on this flatland
now people don't take heed to this because all they see is that there are some 3 odd shaped circle which moves together, they wonder might these be some CIA agents, as they stick so closely together and move at one and the same time,
then apple finds it nagging and kicks one square, for the first time in his life square moves up, and all of sudden he see something very big in red which is un-usually above as well as below him....
people in flatland wonder where did Mr.Square go all of sudden, he simply vanished...
when that square returns back to flatland, people ask him "where the heck did you go?"
he simply replies "i think i was up!"
other people think he has gone insane as there is no such thing called up, and his family always had delusions :P
same is with us....since we live in 3D we have hard time imagine
for fourth dimension,
but wait again, if there was a fourth dimension such that it was perpendicular to every other axis or direction,
thinking of it, we cant imagine there could be anything like that, but if see the flatland case then arent we sure missing something?
but still if we have a direction such hat it is perpendicular to every other direction then how will it rotate?
at axis? or at apex? or at side?
well buddy, it revolves around itself, didn't get it? think you are in 4th dimension, then you can rotate such that your internal organs come out and your skin goes inside, but after some time, skin comes out and organs go back inside :)
err....it not so pleasant right....well the pleasant diagram showing is below.
just imagine if we somehow manage to go into this fourth dimension, wouldn't it be wonderful experience (except the part where viscera comes out )
this is called a Tesseract. a four dimensional cube
but through ages people debate they were abducted by aliens and had out of body experience some even say that they dreamt of something that happened to them next morning, i believe they went in fourth dimension, they went there and saw things in fourth
i believe that if we could find a way to go and come back from fourth dimension then we will able to see our future, and even change it..........think about it
to be continued.....
actually there can be, for ages theoreticians have argued that there is a fourth dimension.
at the end of this blog you will in fact ask yourself, what did i say is it true, or i just wasted your time, blogspot's space and my bandwidth. :P
lets look into history a bit, when newton saw apple falling towards earth he felt something was wrong, he wondered why the apple fell down and why didn't it was there on tree or why it didn't hover in air, why it fell down.
since then after the discovery of gravity he never rested, he did every possible discovery which later on helped us (for few people like me it was burden in schools :P )
then came in Einstein, with his famous theory of relativity, and time dilation theory and space travel theories etc etc,
he was the first guy in fact to propose that there might be a fourth dimension.
first to understand anything about this so called fourth dimension, lets look into the matter which made him curious to even say that there was a fourth dimension.
lets start with dimension, what is dimension, who is it?
the actual defination of dimension is the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height),
did you notice anything in this sentence
the main culprit is this definition itself. it says that dimension is the magnitude of something in particular direction especially length or width or height the definition itself says that there can be only 3 dimension, so people wondered why only 3 factors, why not a fourth one?
to understand it more closely....hoping that you are familiar with class 8 geometry
consider a point,
a point is nothing but a dimensionless thing, it doesn't has thickness, length nor height, it is a dimensionless thing hanging in air which assigns itself to some place in space.
so now we are clear on fact that point is dimensionless thing...next is line
take a point and pull it to some length so as it follows straight motion, what do you get, yes a line.
so i can say, that a line is actually group of points kept close enough and in straight way so they group together to form a line, nice and easy, and since it is made up of points...lots of point so it will have its property of being dimensionless in terms of thickness and height, however it now has some length.
this line now can be rotated through an axis i.e a point
try it yourself ,draw a line and try to rotate it, you will see that you always have to select a point to do so.
so this is fact that line can be rotated only through a point as an axis
next....take 3 more similar lines, of same length and join then such that they are 90º, looks like square to me, to you?
so now we are meeting this new thing called 2 dimensional structure, as it has length and breadth,
now lets rotate this square as well, we can rotate it in two ways, at one apex, i.e point and one at side, i.e length/breadth.
if i take one more identical square and four more line of same lenght side and join two squares by those lines, i get a cube, nice and good, (most of us have seen Rubik's cube), try to rotates this as well, you can rotate it from its apex, a side as well as whole plane.
so we have now been introduced by all three dimensions
but what about the fourth dimension, where will i draw it, its been said that the fourth dimension can be drawn such that it is perpendicular to all the 3 dimension drawn earlier, practically it is not possible, but theoretically, lets see it,
lets assume that there was a flatland, where everything was flat, everything was in 2-D,
people are square, rectangle, triangle, circle, line etc all 2-D.
so these people will know only two dimension, forward-backward, left-right, but not up-down.
these people will see edges of other persons, since they have no height so they don't know about anything like height and up and down,
one day an apple falls on this flatland
now people don't take heed to this because all they see is that there are some 3 odd shaped circle which moves together, they wonder might these be some CIA agents, as they stick so closely together and move at one and the same time,
then apple finds it nagging and kicks one square, for the first time in his life square moves up, and all of sudden he see something very big in red which is un-usually above as well as below him....
people in flatland wonder where did Mr.Square go all of sudden, he simply vanished...
when that square returns back to flatland, people ask him "where the heck did you go?"
he simply replies "i think i was up!"
other people think he has gone insane as there is no such thing called up, and his family always had delusions :P
same is with us....since we live in 3D we have hard time imagine
for fourth dimension,but wait again, if there was a fourth dimension such that it was perpendicular to every other axis or direction,
thinking of it, we cant imagine there could be anything like that, but if see the flatland case then arent we sure missing something?
but still if we have a direction such hat it is perpendicular to every other direction then how will it rotate?
at axis? or at apex? or at side?
well buddy, it revolves around itself, didn't get it? think you are in 4th dimension, then you can rotate such that your internal organs come out and your skin goes inside, but after some time, skin comes out and organs go back inside :)
err....it not so pleasant right....well the pleasant diagram showing is below.
just imagine if we somehow manage to go into this fourth dimension, wouldn't it be wonderful experience (except the part where viscera comes out )
this is called a Tesseract. a four dimensional cubebut through ages people debate they were abducted by aliens and had out of body experience some even say that they dreamt of something that happened to them next morning, i believe they went in fourth dimension, they went there and saw things in fourth
i believe that if we could find a way to go and come back from fourth dimension then we will able to see our future, and even change it..........think about it
to be continued.....
Cosmos - life of a star
last time we discussed about birth of star, now im gonna tell something about there life
unlike us, they live million and billions of year, such is there supply of fuel.
such is the big universe and such abundant is hydrogen there that its like almost non-exhaustive
now since the fuel is so much available, that...what the heck should i say about it more...
also the fuel is so much that all stars dont have same mass
if we take sun as scale, the standard, some are smaller than sun, and some are big, bigger, massive than sun
many many times that of sun
this mass alone decides the fate of stars, its already written when the stars have gain there mass that what will happen to them and how will they die....
yes, stars die too.
lets consider stars with mass less than sun
the stars who have mass less than sun, aren't much event full, they are like under average guy in your class.
they do almost nothing..
actually there mass is less so there gravitational force is also less than average, which fails to hold gas and dust together. resulting....fusion doesn't takes place so loudly and drastically as in other stars
so it glows lightly..little by little..slowly
and glows with white light, revolving slowly.....its awesome sight for anybody, even soothing, to see this star
it is called white dwarf
it remains as it is. simple, glowing thing, suspend in nothingness of space,
but you might as me, what happens when it runs out of fuel?
well then it stops glowing firstly then once fire is out, gravity comes in,
it shrinks ans shrinks, to such a point where the star becomes very unstable
war rages throughout the star
a war between gravity and fire...gravity pressurizes star to such extent that temperature again stars to rise, and then
one fine day......temperature reaches to such high point that it simply booms out.
it shatters, bursts up, blows up in pieces
leaving behind nothing but ashes and residue of what left helium (hydrogen fuses to form helium)
it isn't spectacular as what happens to massive stars
imagine a star10-20 time size of sun
such are objects up there in sky
what happen to these is bit similar to smaller stars at starting, but later, they glow like anything
the amount of energy sun gives us in one year there might be a star so massive which will give that kind of energy in one sec.
but fuel is abundant but not unlimited, someday there fuel goes out as well
then what happens is not less than what happens in some Hollywood sci-fi movies
first it gets extinguished due to lack of fuel, then stars to contract, pressure increases.
then something strange happens....
its outer shell starts expanding, which mostly contains hydrogen and it still has fire in it,
slowly and slowly the outer shell expands, engulfing the nearby planets and there satellites.
its a prefect villain any solar system might want to have. the ever expanding outer shell containing hydrogen which is burning like residual fuel. slowly and engulfi
ng other plants.
but this was the story of outer shell, what about the inner stuff.......
well the inner stuff which is again some left hydrogen and converted helium, stars to compress, due to excessive mass and gravity it compress quickly, and temperature rises as well, which in turn ignites the helium again, and it starts to glow with white light...
and soon due to so high temperature, it runs out of fuel(helium), then what,
then helium which has been converted to lithium will burn, this will continue till..there is balance between mass and fuel
but this is not the end
bigger stars i.e these stars have there fate written to be something else...
these stars collapse and crushes itself with there own gravity, so tightly so highly packed.
imagine sun packed in your palm, such high is the density of it.
these are called Black Holes
black hole are such things, they have such high gravity that even light cannot es
cape.
you might question me, if light doesn't escape from black hole how the heck did one find then,
simple answer to this is that look for a spot where you cant
see nothing but find something missing there..like in below pictures.....on of it shows a black hole feasting on a nearby star.
to be continued
unlike us, they live million and billions of year, such is there supply of fuel.
such is the big universe and such abundant is hydrogen there that its like almost non-exhaustive
now since the fuel is so much available, that...what the heck should i say about it more...
also the fuel is so much that all stars dont have same mass
if we take sun as scale, the standard, some are smaller than sun, and some are big, bigger, massive than sun
many many times that of sun
this mass alone decides the fate of stars, its already written when the stars have gain there mass that what will happen to them and how will they die....
yes, stars die too.
lets consider stars with mass less than sun
the stars who have mass less than sun, aren't much event full, they are like under average guy in your class.
they do almost nothing..
actually there mass is less so there gravitational force is also less than average, which fails to hold gas and dust together. resulting....fusion doesn't takes place so loudly and drastically as in other stars
so it glows lightly..little by little..slowly
and glows with white light, revolving slowly.....its awesome sight for anybody, even soothing, to see this star
it is called white dwarf
it remains as it is. simple, glowing thing, suspend in nothingness of space,
but you might as me, what happens when it runs out of fuel?
well then it stops glowing firstly then once fire is out, gravity comes in,
it shrinks ans shrinks, to such a point where the star becomes very unstable
war rages throughout the star
a war between gravity and fire...gravity pressurizes star to such extent that temperature again stars to rise, and then
one fine day......temperature reaches to such high point that it simply booms out.
it shatters, bursts up, blows up in pieces
leaving behind nothing but ashes and residue of what left helium (hydrogen fuses to form helium)
it isn't spectacular as what happens to massive stars
imagine a star10-20 time size of sun
such are objects up there in sky
what happen to these is bit similar to smaller stars at starting, but later, they glow like anything
the amount of energy sun gives us in one year there might be a star so massive which will give that kind of energy in one sec.
but fuel is abundant but not unlimited, someday there fuel goes out as well
then what happens is not less than what happens in some Hollywood sci-fi movies
first it gets extinguished due to lack of fuel, then stars to contract, pressure increases.
then something strange happens....
its outer shell starts expanding, which mostly contains hydrogen and it still has fire in it,
slowly and slowly the outer shell expands, engulfing the nearby planets and there satellites.
its a prefect villain any solar system might want to have. the ever expanding outer shell containing hydrogen which is burning like residual fuel. slowly and engulfi
ng other plants.but this was the story of outer shell, what about the inner stuff.......
well the inner stuff which is again some left hydrogen and converted helium, stars to compress, due to excessive mass and gravity it compress quickly, and temperature rises as well, which in turn ignites the helium again, and it starts to glow with white light...
and soon due to so high temperature, it runs out of fuel(helium), then what,
then helium which has been converted to lithium will burn, this will continue till..there is balance between mass and fuel
but this is not the end
bigger stars i.e these stars have there fate written to be something else...
these stars collapse and crushes itself with there own gravity, so tightly so highly packed.
imagine sun packed in your palm, such high is the density of it.
these are called Black Holes
black hole are such things, they have such high gravity that even light cannot es
cape.you might question me, if light doesn't escape from black hole how the heck did one find then,
simple answer to this is that look for a spot where you cant
see nothing but find something missing there..like in below pictures.....on of it shows a black hole feasting on a nearby star.to be continued
after thought - license to silence.......
there was a silence,
the unwanted license,
like last September,
when snow fell,
and million hearts melt,
then why was i frozen,
like and amber of Trojan,
why i kept loosing.
like last September,
when a crime was done,
leaving a blind one,
witnessing the causing,
why i kept loosing,
like the last September,
the spring was lost in time,
and bringing the castaways,
of ghost and lost,
and still i kept loosing,
like last September,
to cover all the tracks,
to fill all breaks and cracks,
but my ceiling kept oozing,
still why i kept loosing,
why i fell no remorse
of sorrow and many more (very much and many more)
those of undone and overdue
like paying my life's rent
i don't like loosing
the long silence
which was the license
for my life and cry
it's still under the Grey skies
and still i kept loosing
still......
Cosmos - A star is born.....somewhere
in last post i introduced you to fact that stars were actually nothing but ball of gas and dust, but heck why they do glow?
most of us have only seen a bulb and tube light (some even see fluorescent watches as light source) but yes stars too glow like all these, in fact they have there own light, just like our beloved sun who is million-billion years old. our grandpa
to understand why they glow, we would have to go to molecular level, even towards atoms.
in our universe we have hydrogen in abundant which is a perfect fuel.
so far so good, hydrogen is fuel and it catches fire and starts burning, but wait, who lights hydrogen? who has the ability to light this hydrogen who's power still cannot be trapped by us humans?
answer : gravity
strange na! see, e know that everything is attracting each other, on earth even im attracting my keyboard with same force as it is attracting me, but it never overcomes gravitational force of earth nor i overcome my mass. so we are both at same place as we were, but in space, its different story. in space the only force is gravity but not by another thing, but themselves
like take a big block of mass, some stone, now it is hanging there is space, but due to its mass and Newtons theory it will start attracting things/gasses/dust/smaller stones towards itself, a more practical example is earth and moon.
so when the gasses start to get collect at one place due to attractive force between them, as there mass increases, there force of gravity also increases, increasing the force of gravitation, hence increasing the mass, this continues eternally (some million years, for us this is eternal :P ) then as the mass increases, pressure inside increases as well, which in turn pushes the hydrogen atoms in there closer and closer,
there something happens
the pressure ever rising
the temperature ever rising
hydrogen atoms coming closer and closer
and then suddenly.........
the two hydrogen atoms fuse (hence fusion), and release a massive amount of energy and high temperature
almost like 20 Hiroshima and Nagasaki in single blow, which ignites the rest of hydrogen
and a star is born........somewhere
which will continue to glow eternally somewhere....like our sun, like the nearest star...like those twinkling little things up above the sky......there how everything started
have you ever heard of fourth dimension?
lets talk about it in nxt edition :)
most of us have only seen a bulb and tube light (some even see fluorescent watches as light source) but yes stars too glow like all these, in fact they have there own light, just like our beloved sun who is million-billion years old. our grandpa
to understand why they glow, we would have to go to molecular level, even towards atoms.
in our universe we have hydrogen in abundant which is a perfect fuel.
so far so good, hydrogen is fuel and it catches fire and starts burning, but wait, who lights hydrogen? who has the ability to light this hydrogen who's power still cannot be trapped by us humans?
answer : gravity
strange na! see, e know that everything is attracting each other, on earth even im attracting my keyboard with same force as it is attracting me, but it never overcomes gravitational force of earth nor i overcome my mass. so we are both at same place as we were, but in space, its different story. in space the only force is gravity but not by another thing, but themselves
like take a big block of mass, some stone, now it is hanging there is space, but due to its mass and Newtons theory it will start attracting things/gasses/dust/smaller stones towards itself, a more practical example is earth and moon.
so when the gasses start to get collect at one place due to attractive force between them, as there mass increases, there force of gravity also increases, increasing the force of gravitation, hence increasing the mass, this continues eternally (some million years, for us this is eternal :P ) then as the mass increases, pressure inside increases as well, which in turn pushes the hydrogen atoms in there closer and closer,
there something happens
the pressure ever rising
the temperature ever rising
hydrogen atoms coming closer and closer
and then suddenly.........
the two hydrogen atoms fuse (hence fusion), and release a massive amount of energy and high temperature
almost like 20 Hiroshima and Nagasaki in single blow, which ignites the rest of hydrogen
and a star is born........somewhere
which will continue to glow eternally somewhere....like our sun, like the nearest star...like those twinkling little things up above the sky......there how everything started
have you ever heard of fourth dimension?
Cosmos-Have you ever wonderd
before reading any further i would like you to ask yourself, are you alone?
no idiot, i didnt mean in the room,
just think are you alone in this universe....
i think not....but what the heck is that to do with our life?
nothing in particular to be honest, but i took some time from my helter-skelter life to wait, stand, look up, watch those beautiful stars up there.
arent they beautiful !
but wait, before i get caught in there charm, i ask myself, where are they? who are they?
why are they up there and so small?
answer to these question are also with a 5yr old child, who knows the nursery rhyme "twinkle twinkle little stars"
he knows "it up above the world so high", so do we,
but how much 'above'
arent you intrigued by this large distance, aren't you fascinated by the awesomeness of those blinking things.
lets start from base.
for those who aren't/weren't a science student, light travels at 299,792,458 m/s
aprox:300,000,000 m/s or 30,00,000 km/s
if you want an estimate we drive bike normally at not more than 60km/hr i.e 16.67m/s
and here we are seeing speed of light at whopping 17,983,950.7 times than ours,
this is madness even to think about comparing, but just to show actually what is light.
anyway
did you know that it takes approx 8 mins for sunlight to reach surface of earth, imagine light traveling at such enormous speed still taking 8 mins to reach earth, 149,565,511 kilometers.
since all these units are becoming too small for us to calculate and even write here, lets look towards our maths and physics textbook, there is defined a new unit, light years, dont get baffled
it is actually distance traveled by light in one year time
one light year=9.4605284 × 1012 kilometers
so far so good, whats next now
well sorry to deviate you from beautiful stars :P
but this was the setting of what is going to follow.
okay, so we were looking up the sky, and wondering what they are, and where are, who they are
lets go step by step
most of the people like me might know what they are.
they are nothing but a ball of gas and dust, gas is mostly hydrogen
they why the heck are they glowing, well to understand this, i feel is necessary for us to understand what is fission
now if you have seen that wiki page, then in simple language i will say that fusion is actually joining of two atom/atomic nuclei, what happens is when these gas molecule are packed tightly , so tightly packed that the nuclear forces between the electron and proton loose its battle to gravitational and external pr
essure. will explain more soonthese stars glow because of fusion, fusion releases high amount of energy which is still uncontrollable for us humans, and havnt yet able to setup such device that could hold the energy coming out of fusion. sun is perfect example
actually sun is a mid-sized star. which has fuel almost unlimited that it has been burning continuously for last 4.5 billion years old, and whats your age :P
like sun there are many other stars, and those are there up are gas ball but some are much and many time heavier than sun, but now wonder why they are so small like speck of dirt whereas sun is so big enough to make us sweat in summer days?
answer : distance in light years (now you know why i wasted your time :P )
4.22 light years or 9.46 x 1012 km long way.....still closest
its name is Proxima Centauri.
welcome to our nearest neighbor :)
more in next version
after thought - call me anytime
if one day you feel like crying...
call me
i don't promise you that i will make you laugh,
but i can cry with you
if one day you want to run away
don't be afraid to call me
i don't promise to ask you to stay,
but i can run with you
if one day you don't want to listen anybody,
call me....
i promise to be very quiet
but,
if one day you call
and there is no answer...
come fast to see me,
perhaps i need you
after thought - floating blues....
am i dream
or you are just the feeling
am i body
or its thirst of my soul
im searching truth
out in the sky
answer is far away.
are you near me?
sometimes im dew
sometimes im new
when not with you
im of the few
answer is far away
are you near me?
after thought - eyes again
whenever i kiss
those beautiful eyes
sky pours down
a shimmering light
flowers sprout up
in deep deep deserts
and the thirsty earth
gets its morning dew
whenever i kiss
those beautiful eyes
sky pours down
a shimmering light
for a moment
i forget all the pain in me
for a moment
faces forget tears and smile
whenever i kiss
those beautiful eyes
sky pours down
a shimmering light
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