This is the video of a woman whose family lives on street at Opera House.
Tags: Big Bang, CERN, Switzerland, Large Hadron Collider, Elementary Particle Physics
CERN (European Center for research in particle physics) is starting its biggest particle accelerator at its head quarters in Geneva.
Large Hadron Collider aerial view
Following is a conversation between me and my best friend Faizan Marolia.
Krishna Reddy: Dude!
Krishna Reddy: Chill out!
Krishna Reddy: Leave work for he day immediaely… V ll chill ou for one las ime!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Faizaan Marolia: umm
Faizaan Marolia: we will mee around 6 na?
Faizaan Marolia: i have work ill hen
Krishna Reddy: well no poin in working!
Krishna Reddy: as he world is gonna end oday
Faizaan Marolia: huh? why is he world goin o end oday?
Krishna Reddy: Well LHC is saring oday
Faizaan Marolia: wha is LHC now?
Krishna Reddy: large hadron collider a CERN
Krishna Reddy: which can poenially creae iny blackhole(s)
Faizaan Marolia: ah
Faizaan Marolia: sahee hai.
Faizaan Marolia: you really are very well informed
Krishna Reddy: So hey can potentially suck up he whole world ino i
Faizaan Marolia: wowie.. prey cool..
Faizaan Marolia: hen our lapops, everyhing will go in here righ?
Faizaan Marolia: or will hey say here??
Krishna Reddy: Yesssssssssss!
Faizaan Marolia: oh. so we’ll have o coninue working in here hen..
Krishna Reddy: has y here is no poin in working!!!
Krishna Reddy: hp
Faizaan Marolia: I don ge i
Faizaan Marolia: if we have o coninue working
Faizaan Marolia: i doesn’ maer wheher we are here, or no here
Faizaan Marolia: we may no even know he difference..
Krishna Reddy: na all he lappies will vanish ino a small piece of mass
Faizaan Marolia: oh
Faizaan Marolia: has prey cool
Faizaan Marolia: will we be alive?
Krishna Reddy: Na, no as bodies… our souls will remain hovering all over, reslessly!
Faizaan Marolia: ah
Faizaan Marolia: u believe in souls and all ha
Faizaan Marolia: ?
Krishna Reddy: I don believe in i…. coz i know i
Faizaan Marolia: as in?
Krishna Reddy: u believe sumhing ha u don know only…..
Faizaan Marolia: why?
Krishna Reddy: bu u ‘hink’ “i is so”
Faizaan Marolia: bu you know ha souls exis?
Krishna Reddy: Yes
Krishna Reddy: If no hen wo else r u?
Krishna Reddy: A dead piece of mass?
Krishna Reddy: Wihou consciousness?
Faizaan Marolia: well, u can make big saemens – bu ne-ne, he quesion is, wheher you hink here is somehing ha remains afer life expires
Krishna Reddy: Well, when u experience ur pure consiousness, wihou mind and body, hen u realize “oh! his is wha I am!!”
Krishna Reddy: Then u will come o “know” ha u r indepen of body
Faizaan Marolia: well, u are your mind
Faizaan Marolia: ha is one and he same
Faizaan Marolia: and your consciousness ends when you die
Faizaan Marolia: do you believe in ha, or do you believe ha i persiss.. hovering abou somewhere in he universe
Krishna Reddy: yes ha (mind) is a sep closer o urself…. bu no, i is no you
Faizaan Marolia: accha. so u don believe in ha.
Faizaan Marolia: has all i wan o know.
Krishna Reddy: well u r no he mind…. as mind is houghs, feelings and oher menal phenomena
Faizaan Marolia: mind is also consciousness
Faizaan Marolia: being aware
Krishna Reddy: u can be “conscious” wihou mind….
Faizaan Marolia: i is no differen
Krishna Reddy: in a no-mind sae
Faizaan Marolia: na.. i don hink you could be conscious if u didn’ have a mind
Krishna Reddy: u can b ‘presen’ and conscious even when he mind is no here, when her r no houghs
Faizaan Marolia: or some means of processing your sensory inpu
Faizaan Marolia: man.. wha do you mean by mind?
Krishna Reddy: well wihou consiousness u can hv mind – hos.
Krishna Reddy: bu he opposie is no rue…
Krishna Reddy: js like a dance can be here wihou dancer….
Krishna Reddy: bu he dancer can be here wihou dance
Krishna Reddy: mind is par of a larger hing called consciousness, no he oherway round
Faizaan Marolia: well, i hink he mind iself has given you consciousness.. whereas u believe i o be he oher way around..
Faizaan Marolia: has our basic disconnec
Krishna Reddy: Well, i define pure consciousness (consciness wihou mind) like his
Krishna Reddy: u know ‘I am’.
Krishna Reddy: u are aware ha u are
Krishna Reddy: bu u don know wehre u r and wha u r
Krishna Reddy: “I am”
Krishna Reddy: No “I am his” or “I am ha” or “I am indian” or “I am s/w engrr”
Faizaan Marolia: we have a difference has wy more basic han ha
Krishna Reddy: Is like ocean is he vas consciousness and a wave is a mind
Well, my newest movie will be on these lines!
Everyone might have heard of the “Ant and Grasshopper” story as a child.
If u haven’t, this is the original story;
“The ant worked hard all summer, building his house and stocking up supplies for the harsh winter. The grasshopper thinks ant is a fool and laughs and dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper neither has food nor shelter, so he dies out in the cold.“
The Story has changed.
The Modern Version:
“When winter arrives,
The grasshopper calls a press conference & demands to know why ant should be allowed to be warm & well fed while others are cold and shivering.
Media shows up to provide pics of Shivering grasshopper next to video of an ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
The world is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor fellow is allowed to suffer so?
Activists stage a demonstartion in front of Ant’s House.
They go on fast along with other grasshoppers demanding their relocation to warmer climates during winter.
International Charity Org. and World body criticizes the Indian govt for not upholding the fundamental rights of grasshopper.
Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper.
(many promising heaven and peace for support else Wrath of God)
Opposition in Indian Parliament stage a walk-out.
Left calls for “India Bandh” (ie. strike) in W.Bengal n Kerala
In Kerala, law is passed preventing Ants from working hard in heat to bring about Equality of Poverty
Rail Ministry allocates one free coach to grasshoppers on all Indian railway trains, called ‘Grasshopper Rath‘
POTAGA (Prevention Of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act) is passed.
Education Ministry, makes special reservations for them in edu. institutes and Govt services.
Ant is fined under POTAGA, house confiscated and handed over to Grasshopper in a cermony covered by Media.
Grasshopper is invited to address UN General Assembly.
Many years later…. Ant has migrated to US.
He sets up a multi-million $ company in Silicon Valley.
Hundreds of grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India.
As a result, we are loosing a lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshopper, India is still a developing Country….”
This is a story i came across as a forwarded email, a few days back. The message it carries cannot be ignored. Even though it is written with an Indian Backdrop, it is valid for many other countries.
This point of view towards Social Justice cannot be ignored when implementing it.
http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/the-modern-ant-and-the-modern-grasshopper/
http://prashantmaxsteel.blogspot.com/2007/06/ant-and-grasshopper-revisited.html
http://journal.naveeng.com/2008/04/28/ant-grasshopper-the-story-of-india/
Historically the credit for inventing calculus goes to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. There was some work done in this field by earlier people including, the Indian mathematician, Bhāskara of 12th century.
Calculus can be simply defined as study of change. What change? Any change for example, movement is a change. Movement is change of the position (and shape) of an object with time.
Limit: The following example from Wikipedia nicely illustrates Tangent line as a limit of secant lines. The derivative f′(x) of a curve at a point is the slope of the line tangent to that curve at that point. This slope is determined by considering the limiting value of the slopes of secant lines.
Differentiation: When two (or more) related variables change, how does a change in one variable affects the other variable? What is the change rate at any given point? This change rate is defined as a derivative. And the process of obtaining derivative of a function f(x) with respect x is called differentiation.
Integration: Suppose we have an object that moves at a speed (rate of change of distance) that itself changes with time. What will be the cumulative distance traveled by the object over a period of time? Then we have integration that can answer this question.
Here are some of the useful sites to understand the concepts of calculus.
Does anybody have best ways/tools to teach calculus?
Ganapati Bappa Morya!
Ganesh Pandal at Mahim, Mumbai
Ganapati Bappa Morya
Ganesh Pandal at Mahim, Mumbai
Entrepreneur, Social Worker, Spiritual Seeker, IIT Bombay alumnus.
