Wanna date me, huh?
Let me check my purse, Mam...
Let me check my purse, Mam...
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After you, Mam.
How sweet of you...
How sweet of you...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
God's Equation - Einstein, Relativity and the Expanding Universe
I went through an interesting link that I saw from a friend on Facebook. The link is below...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24966310/God-s-Equation-Einstein-Relativity-and-the-Expanding-Universe
I was interested in seeing how it matched my own understanding of reality, which is based on some Hindu concepts. Most of it went tangent to my brain but at one point I came across this paragraph below which looked odd.
Kindly excuse my impertinence. I'm not an hotshot in physics. Whatever interest I have in physics came from studying for IIT, in which I failed twice. I had once wanted to be a great scientist but that aspiration only removed me far from living a 'wet' life. But whatever knowledge that became unavailable from my inability to go do a PhD in US, I got it as a byproduct when I studied Hindu scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads etc. I certainly don't have the intelligence of an IITian but I'm smart in a few things.
The first thing that any physicist must do is take up 'wet' physics and not 'dry' physics, especially in this topic. A wet physicist will merge himself or herself in the universe. A dry physicist is removed from the universe he or she is observing. The implication of this that the Atma is the Atom. If you do not agree with the previous premise, you will not agree with what I post next...
This is the Hindu version of what Einstein has suggested...
http://www.swamij.com/centripetal-centrifugal.htm
Now, the only odd thing that I found in what Einstein concluded is that he is suggesting a shrinking of the circle from gravity. Whereas in the Hindu model, the circle is constant because there is a balance of centripetal and centrifugal force. This may be because he is practising 'dry' physics (in this case) by treating the object as without an initiative of it's own but under the influence of gravity. (Clue: how did the object get to be with the revolving inertia??? if only gravity was there, every object will get sucked into nothingness i.e. nihilism and there will not be any universe to have this wonderful blog post :-()
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24966310/God-s-Equation-Einstein-Relativity-and-the-Expanding-Universe
I was interested in seeing how it matched my own understanding of reality, which is based on some Hindu concepts. Most of it went tangent to my brain but at one point I came across this paragraph below which looked odd.
Einstein followed the line of reasoning that began with the "happiest thought" of his life. Still at the Swiss patent office, he conducted one of his famous thought-experiments. Einstein imagined a circle spinning in space. The center of the circle did not move, but its circumference was moving quickly in a circular direction. Einstein compared what happens in several reference frames, a standard tool he had used in developing the special theory of relativity. He concluded, using his special relativity, that the boundary of the disk contracted as it spun. There was a force acting on the circle at the boundary—the centrifugal force—and its action was analogous to that of a gravitational force. But the same contraction that affected the outer circle left the diameter unchanged. Thus, Einstein concluded, in a way that surprised even him, the ratio of the circle to the diameter was no longer pi. He deduced that in the presence of a gravitational force (or field), the geometry of space is non- Euclidean.
Kindly excuse my impertinence. I'm not an hotshot in physics. Whatever interest I have in physics came from studying for IIT, in which I failed twice. I had once wanted to be a great scientist but that aspiration only removed me far from living a 'wet' life. But whatever knowledge that became unavailable from my inability to go do a PhD in US, I got it as a byproduct when I studied Hindu scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads etc. I certainly don't have the intelligence of an IITian but I'm smart in a few things.
The first thing that any physicist must do is take up 'wet' physics and not 'dry' physics, especially in this topic. A wet physicist will merge himself or herself in the universe. A dry physicist is removed from the universe he or she is observing. The implication of this that the Atma is the Atom. If you do not agree with the previous premise, you will not agree with what I post next...
This is the Hindu version of what Einstein has suggested...
http://www.swamij.com/centripetal-centrifugal.htm
Now, the only odd thing that I found in what Einstein concluded is that he is suggesting a shrinking of the circle from gravity. Whereas in the Hindu model, the circle is constant because there is a balance of centripetal and centrifugal force. This may be because he is practising 'dry' physics (in this case) by treating the object as without an initiative of it's own but under the influence of gravity. (Clue: how did the object get to be with the revolving inertia??? if only gravity was there, every object will get sucked into nothingness i.e. nihilism and there will not be any universe to have this wonderful blog post :-()
Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
The role of a Guru
I read something like this in one of the Upanishads...don't know which one. It had something to tell on the role of a Guru....
When a person is exiled from a city by being blind-folded and taken to the middle of the forest and left there, the Guru unties the fold and points the direction of the city. The person then asks everyone on the way for directions and eventually comes back to the city.
This is the role that my Guru also played. Ofcourse I did most of the work, the 99% of it and some times we agreed to disagree. A Guru is himself on the journey and as the gap between the Guru and the disciple decreases, the relationship turns into that of 2 pilgrims exchanging notes.
When a person is exiled from a city by being blind-folded and taken to the middle of the forest and left there, the Guru unties the fold and points the direction of the city. The person then asks everyone on the way for directions and eventually comes back to the city.
This is the role that my Guru also played. Ofcourse I did most of the work, the 99% of it and some times we agreed to disagree. A Guru is himself on the journey and as the gap between the Guru and the disciple decreases, the relationship turns into that of 2 pilgrims exchanging notes.
Going to spend a hour a day on developing a website rather than on the novel
I'm not going to write professionally. Instead I'm planning to develop a website on BEtter Living, a website that focuses on making life better. I hope to get some money from it in the form of ad clicks or banner ad or maybe even a donate button if it turns out to be good. The website will be a way where I can discover life more as well as share whatever I know with others.
Maybe I will finish the novel some time in my life as a hobby. Better yet, I want to live my life as a novel.
That makes my work life...1 hour of non-profit volunteering + 4 hours of professional work + 1 hour of magazine-editorship.
Today I have worked for 4 hours this way...not bad.
Okay...the website is at (in a poor shape now) http://aafhey6w.facebook.joyent.us/betterliving/
Maybe I will finish the novel some time in my life as a hobby. Better yet, I want to live my life as a novel.
That makes my work life...1 hour of non-profit volunteering + 4 hours of professional work + 1 hour of magazine-editorship.
Today I have worked for 4 hours this way...not bad.
Okay...the website is at (in a poor shape now) http://aafhey6w.facebook.joyent.us/betterliving/
Happy-go-lucky guy?
I was once like this. I hope he doesn't get carried away by the rat race and lose what he is basically.
We would give anything for what we have. ~ Tony Hoagland
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