I've been coaxing myself to sit down and write for a long time. It seems the habit that I once possessed... to read and to write stuff apart from what I was supposed to, has left me. This, here, is an attempt. An attempt to catch and integrate all that back into my life. :)
Now the important question... what do i write? ......O.K. Here goes...
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| Meissner Effect |
Ever since I learnt Physics, about the world in a more holistic and arrive-at-results kind of way rather than here-are-the-fact-and-here-is-the-reason way, its been a habit to look at things differently. Now I look at a car on the road, i don't just see a car. I see vectors- rotating vectors, linear vectors and accelerating vectors (rotating is accelerating, if you think of it). I see friction being overcome to move over an equi-potential surface. Some find it strange and rather sad. Not being able to appreciate the warmth of sunlight, the cool breeze, etc. as my darling puts it. But I do feel the warmth and the cold, only that i know its because of infrared rays or just pressure difference in the air. Science provides an outlook that only adds, never subtracts. And that is where actual knowledge comes in.
To know E=mc2 and to KNOW E=mc2 makes a lot of difference. To wade through a lot of the airways of mathematics (more on that later) and to arrive at this beautifully deceptive and elegant solution is something. While I knew what it meant, I never understood its implications. Thats where KNOWING comes in. To take a more simpler case.. I knew that a book moves when i apply force according to F=ma. But to know that i can find out displacement, velocity, et all just by measuring a few quantities was a huge step. In secondary school, I never bothered to know how much it moved. I just knew it moved because i made it move. Thats increase in the knowing is what I'm trying to impress on you.
To move from how to how much is dimension that was added to me only a few years back. I still do turn my head away when i know i can find out how much from how but its just the lazy me not wanting to work. I wonder how many more dimensions can be added. I do see one more growing, - what if.
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| The orbital of electrons around Hydrogen Nuclei calculated as probability distribution by a computer. |
Here's how I've progressed - how-how much- what if . The powers that computers provide allow me to create worlds where gravity points up and planets fly-off from orbits. I'm looking forward to the addition of more dimensions, travelling along integrating.... (just like the work integral.. hmmm... it seems this habit is creeping into my writing as well.. )
Till next time.. Namaste.
