I wonder!

        After a month long of development, I had got a breather. We were on the testing phase less issues and more time to spend. I had heard about Higgs boson news the previous day. “What are these particles?” I was wondering. As I was browsing for the articles related to them, I stumbled upon few sites about quantum physics. One thing led to another and finally I was reading about Euclidean spaces and space time dilation. Hmm lot of stuff, many were going over my head!

        While I was going through all this stuff I came across the Copenhagen interpretation* and the Schrodinger's Cat* it was interesting. The wave and particle nature of elements and the possibility of existence of many worlds fascinated me. Though I learn t many of these things at school they did not startle me then. “Whenever a measurement takes place, the entire universe divides as many times as there are possible outcomes of the measurement.” Interesting isn’t it!

 

        Well all this reminded me of one of my experience at Chidambaram. I and my friend had gone to see the much fabled ‘Naadi Josiyam’. The man who read my Palm leaf script was asking me initially if my name started with certain letters or if my father was doing so and so business and many such irrelevant questions, before finalizing which was my Palm leaf script. After finalizing my Palm leaf script he read me its interpretations and it was almost 90% accurate. I asked the man if the entire Palm leaf script was unique for me. He said that it is not so and based on the person’s name, parent’s name, time at which the person contacts to read the script, the Palm leaf script will differ! I.e. from the same palm script he can predict the future of many different people.

        Hmm this part seems to be related to our modern day physics. But how did the old Tamil people find this and how did they write the probabilities for all the people that maybe born? Is the ancient Tamil science more advanced than the modern day physics! I wonder!

* http://library.thinkquest.org/3487/qp.html

 

The Country

        “Cutest bye, The Trip and The Scientist: an experience hmmm…. all have a tinge of spiritual touch and sentiment next article should be more political” this was my MindVoice yesterday. What shall I write about!! There are lots happening, Attack on Prasanth Bhushan and Anna Hazare supporters, koodankulam Nuclear Plant issue, Incrimination of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko and many more. Or I can write about the heated debate that I had with my friends as to what a country is! Hmmm so many thoughts!

Tymoshenko at Trial

         OK let me put forth Mind Voice’s take about Country in this article. What is a country? What is a government? Who are the citizens of a country? Is the landmass the country? Are governments and people present to protect the country? Let’s go back in time before democratic and republic governments were established there was monarchy, before that feudal systems and before that normal groups. The order of these forms may vary from place to place on earth but these were the basic system of forming a society. But during all the types of system one thing was common that is the land....

Multifaceted India

        When civilization started to flourish around the river INDUS (A huge sheet of water) around 3500 BCE there was no India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka. Only different dynasties rose and fell under the leadership of different monarchs from time to time and so did the countries of then. Though the rulers and name of countries kept changing, the thing that was unchanged was people and the land. As time moved on, various political changes have happened and under the democratic form of government, territories of countries are marked.

Naruto

        In the Cartoon series of Naruto I remember one of the characters saying,” It is the people who make the country and not the land that makes it” When a group of people have the same feeling and unity they corroborate to form a country. The only time the entire country INDIA feels as one is during a cricket match. A citizen in Kanyakumari is not bothered about earthquake in Sikhim. So is a citizen in Sikhim about koodankulam Nuclear Plant issue. To disapprove the freedom of speech constituted by the constitution of INDIA people are attacking Prasanth Bhushan and Anna Hazare supporters. The INDIA that was sewed together by Vallabhbhai Patel is now being tormented to pieces by the whims of its own citizens.

 koodankulam Protest

Prasanth Bhushan Assaulted

        More than the Lokpal Bill, Electoral reforms and Administrative reforms, what INDIA needs is for its citizens to understand what INDIA is and what unity in diversity really means. Every time there is a change of government the successor throws a slugfest on his predecessor like in the case of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko. Immaterial of what the news channels propagate people must try to understand facts and be united. 

The Scientist : an experience

        Hi guys, I would like to tell you a story. This is a story about a great scientist. The scientist was an embodiment of knowledge; he knew everything. There was nothing unknown to him. Yet he did not know what he should invent. After a long thought he decided to make a replica of himself. He started step by step; he made a simple robot which was controlled using remote. Then he felt there was something missing in it.

 

         He wanted it to think on its own, so he gave the robot the power to decide but this made the robot to disobey his commands. It started to do as it pleased like our 2.0 version robot of Endhiran. So the scientist decided to make changes in the robot’s schema, he created a separate world for the robot made it to live on the planet and form its own schema by its own experiences. He believed that by only programming the basic functions initially he can let the robot to program itself based on its experience in the world.

        There is no hard coded set of rules or regulations prescribed externally in the world but only the preliminary functions programmed which is same for everyone internally. Based on the experiences in the world robot has to program itself. The great scientist is what we call as GOD and we are the ROBOT, but why did GOD start this grand design? What is the eternal purpose? Nobody knows. Our schema has developed a lot from the stone ages, yet nobody knows which is the saturation point. "There is no complete good as well as complete bad" everything is only an experience.

The Trip

        Hi it has been a while since I went on this trip, yet it is the one which I reminisce about. It was a weekend and we had planned to go on a tour. We started early in the morning and there was a drive for around two hours. We reached Somnathpur Temple; though it is small it has a lot of beautiful carvings. I was amazed by the elegance of the builder and the Hoysala architecture. The archeologist there was apprising the tourist, by analyzing the inscriptions about the Hoysala commander of 1268 CE who had built the temple to evince his glory. I wondered maybe everyone should do something like this!

Somnathpur Temple

Talakad

 Latter we left to a place called Talakad; it is a town on the left bank of the Kaveri river, a spot where the river makes a sharp bend. Though it is a river, the water in this place seemed to be at standstill. The place is a scenic beauty. We played there for some time and left to another place called Shivanasamudra. It was a water fall on the same Kaveri river, the very same water that was at Talakad was in its prime glory at this place. It is a roaring falls; The water looked like milk gushing out of the black rocks. I was looking at the falls and the forest cover around it. This very setup has been on the face of earth for a long time. Long before the humans and long before the dinosaurs, its beauty cannot be matched by any manmade structures.

Shivanasamudra Falls

         I looked all around the place there was no inscription as to who made it. The entire setup of the river along with its falls, source and beds has outlived everyone, yet its maker has not left any inscription. I wonder why? Maybe, he has left us as his inscription to marvel and wonder at his work!

Cutest bye!

        Everyday life is the same, same old job, same old people. This makes life monotonous. Oh! what a boring life! Even hanging out with friends seems to be saturated at a point. What to do? Something has to be done. Life was not like this when I was a kid! How come it changed so fast?

       I had returned from Chennai on Monday and was not assigned any work for the next 2 whole days. Boring…. Boring……… It was Wednesday, agh…. I had to go to office, to again stare at the internet!? Why GOD? Why me? With all these thoughts going through my head, I climbed down the stairs from my room. I did not have any mood to go to office, but my legs involuntarily had started walking to it. I should have walked only some 10 steps; I heard a husky and shrill voice saying BYE. What was that! I turned back and saw it was a toddler playing on his tricycle near the road. Hearing the cute bye and seeing his innocent smile, I forgot everything. I said bye to him and started walking towards the office with a smile on my face.

 

        The Bye was echoing in my ears all day. I wanted to see the kid again. The next day I got ready for office at the same time but this time I was very eager and excited to see the boy. I had a look at my watch, it was the same time. I started walking enthusiastically towards office but I could not find the boy! Though I do not know who he was or why he was there that day, all I can say is his Sweet words Bye… will always be in my mind.

Recession

     Recession, debt ceiling, economic collapse and many more these are the latest news makers. Here is the MV’s take on them. What is money? How did it come to existence? In the early days the basic need of every man was air, water, food, clothing and shelter (sky and earth). As civilizations developed the means and types of the above commodities have changed. Initially work could directly produce all the above commodities. Air and water was available by nature, food and clothing was obtained either by hunting or farming and weaving during this period all men where jack of all the trades but as men started to become masters of specific trade they needed means to equate their amount of work and hence came the currency and gradually upon it was built the modern day economics.

     As depicted in the movie Peraanmai, the fundamentals of our modern economics is in such a way that any quantity can be made worth a billion dollars if majority people like it. It has become like horse racing, where I bet some amount on a horse which is not related to me and the amount I bet gets multiplied by the efforts of the jockey and the horse. The socio-economic system of the modern world has changed to such a manner where the work done by the mass is converted into huge profits by some elite few and hay is provided to the masses. Facebook is the best example for the billion dollar story, just because it is a hot stuff in the world at the moment the venture capitalists are investing on a normal social website and increasing its market value but does the social network provide any of the basic needs, I wonder!

     Am I suggesting that people should go back to the stone ages! No, the tendency of the modern economics is like the poker game it is very volatile to speculations and interconnected to various governments on the globe. There is no complete looser and no single winner. Hope all these speculations don’t bring UK like situations in other countries as well :P

The Lifetime Experience

    Hello guys I am back and this time with a lot of mind voices! It was a sudden trip to Chennai. Though I planned to go by bus initially, in a sudden rush I decided to go in an unreserved ticket by train. It is only at a trying situation u can see the true mettle of people. As I reached the station I was taken aback by the crowd that was waiting to get in to the unreserved coach. Serendipity, I should say. I stood exactly on the platform, where the door of the unreserved compartment would position itself. With high hopes of getting a seat I boarded the train but to my dismay people had boarded the train from the shed itself.

    It is this train journey that showed me the plight of the Indians, family of four having an unplanned train journey, the multicultural and multilingual politics, how cockroach survived the apocalypse that even the mighty dinosaurs could not survive and many more such interesting things. I was a mute spectator of all that happened around me in the five and a half an hour journey.

    The train was filling in with people, with not even a small place to land a foot, people clinging on to whatever they could get a hold of. There was no light as the breaker of the unreserved compartment had been put off! People where shouting names, “chinna, kabir” and many more. They were trying to verify if all they had come with had boarded the train. The upper berth was occupied by North Indian daily wages workers who were not willing to allow anybody share their place, below them was a group of families returning from vacation and many more such people. The compartment that could fit 100 people max was filled with around 200 people.

    In the last moment came in a couple with their 2 children. The father asked the people in the upper berth to squeeze in a little bit so that his daughter can fit in. The people there were relentless. The father tried his level best and then gave up his hopes; He asked his wife and daughter to go to unreserved women’s compartment and stood in the general compartment with his son. The power was finally restored and I saw it was not 200 people in that compartment it was even more should be 300. Finally the train started to make a move.

    The people who were in precarious positions tried to move in, it is at this point the people in the compartment realized that when there was no place for a single person to stand an old lady was lying on the floor occupying three persons place. There were angry shouts and quarrels asking the lady to get up, but there was no response. Suddenly, a man half drunk who was standing on one foot and wobbling more than the train itself did, gave a loud cry which meant nothing and jumped up to the upper berth. As there was no place to land after his jump and no possibility for the north Indians to let him sit, he was in mid air balancing his body between the aisles. A lot of swearing was heard from the people below him and the people in the berths. He did not care for any. He just squeezed his way into the berth. This followed a lot of quarrel. Unmindful of all these the drunken cockroach got a place for himself and slept.

    The train reached Bangarpet railway station and a newly married young couple boarded the train. The wife was pretty and most men’s eye in the compartment where on her. The new husband had to find a place for his precious wife. He noticed the old lady lying on the floor without any hesitation he started to hit the lady with his bag asking her to get up. The lady was still unmoved the men near him also supported the man and abused the old lady. The old lady took a glance of all the men and looked at the young lady; the young lady lost her temper and started to stamp the old ladies legs. The old woman got up and gave a curse to the young lady in Telugu, which the young lady did not understand as she did not know Telugu. Even as all such things were happening the father and son duo I had already mentioned where having an eye on their goal, they got in to the toilet locked it from inside and had an entirely different journey.

     Finally the train reached Chennai with still more minor incidents and my God what an experience it was! “Once more polama daddy ;) “