Neil Armstrong

The first man to print his footsteps on our Moon's soil has died. 

I mourned.

Fareed Zakaria and Plagiarism-part 2

Fareed Zakaria is reinstated by Time and CNN both. He is back in business. Hip hip hooray!

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Fareed Zakaria and Plagiarism

Fareed Zakaria, of Sunday morning Global Public Square on CNN and a contributor to the Time Magazine; is he in dust that he has allegedly stolen someone else's words for his article in The Time magazine?

Dust to dust; ashes to ashes. All idols are made of clay. If they fall they will crumble.  Mine, perhaps, is no exception.

I esteemed him highly.  A class man who provided balanced and objective world views, perhaps, had a lapse in judgement. I want him to rebound; pick himself up and move forward.

I wish him well!

The String Theory




Space

 

Of late I am taking a lot of interest in knowing and learning about the Space and the Physics that governs it. I know nothing about Physics nor do I have any knowledge of Mathematics. I am not reading tomes on the subject either. One might call my learning a bit of a fun learning. Pastime!

The reason I got interested in this subject is due only to hearing and reading about politics, bipartisanships, environmental disasters, wars, massacres, mayhems et cetera. It is all too frequently all too dirty, unpleasant and painful. This is one of very few subjects which, if allowed to,  can remain pure of politics and the rest. While directionless, dark, unpredictable and scary, space is also beautiful, and pristine. It is an orderly chaos; I am in love.

Why I write this is only to bring clarity about what I have learned so far to my own head. It is only a lay person's understanding and narration. 

The Theory of General Relativity explained all matters of Universe at Super Atomic level. The theory based on Gravitaional principle explains that the  fabric of this universe bends and warps. This feature grounds all things in their own places through Gravitational force. The fabric of this universe is smooth.

When one digs deeper at Atomic and sub-Atomic levels the fabric of the universe is bumpy and chaotic like bubbling lava.  The workings of this universe is explained through Quantum Mechanics. Protons, Neutrons, Electrons, Photons and Quarks interact with one another based on three types of forces; Strong Force which allows Electron to bind Proton with Neutrons, Electro-Magnetic Force that provides light and energy to Photons and Weak Force allows the particles to decay. 

Physicists could not unify the workings of smooth fabric made of large objects with chaotic fabric of Atomic and sub-atomic particles.

In search of an only one and a cohisive principle to govern the large scale as well as the small scale universes they accidentally found the String Theory. Each sub atomic partcle contains either an open ended or a close ended string which bounces randomly and offers this universe the bumpy feature. The scientists also found that there is a massless and therefore invisible particle known as Graviton, at a very small scale level, calms the chaotice fabric of Quantum Mechanics. It helps seam the two universes into a cohisive state.

As happens in all scientists worlds, not all mathematicians or physicists have bought into this theory. The String theory may or may not eventually explain all workings of all universes. But the mere exercise of learnig it was fascinating.

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