Two lines on philosophy and one on instincts.

We are born with philosophies. Thats why we should live with actions that culminates from these philosophies.

Query, exploration, measurement of the physical world and their scholastic dissemination are natural instincts of Physicists.

on freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is not passe. But we have newborn babies. Freedom of scientific speech. Freedom of expression of scientific thoughts and freedom of expression of creative ideas that draw upon social needs of a scientific and technical society.

Modern forms of organized ignorance and organized prejudice are Acquired Integrity Deficiency Syndromes of societies.

Blasphemy is the symptom of a disease. Its called Creative Thinking.

A scientists impression of a Higgs. The notorious Higgs hiding under unknown debris of "all" kind. Note its head and hair protruding out. Makes it easiler for us to pull him out of that heap of trash.

In the world of Physical reality past is not past. A part of past builds up into future. A part of future had effected past. Its all like a rubber band. Its there, always, even if we are capable of looking at only one part while the other part is effecting the rest of it and things come back at us by its elastic nature.

One can conceive of our Universe, the part that we see, together with the extraneous as a sheet of rubber. No future, No past. Just oscillations. In my mind time becomes, then, a less fundamental construct than other variables we can think of. This is about intuition. And then there are ways to translate our intuitive notions into numbers and equations. They all sound very fancy and so many people have invested their whole life figuring out fanciful models. In the end they just add up.

In my approach intuitions are more powerful than fancy looking numbers. Because while the ideas tell us something directly conceivable and testable by experiments the latter don't, as much.

I want to carry this philosophy of experimental ways of finding Physical reality further and further down cos I believe if experiments are done painstakingly they lead to realities and structures and phenomenas just lying there, to be found out.

I believe my thesis would be a by-product of such an attempt. But the intuition I have gained so far from my attempts is the ability to believe what ideas will produce something that I will see and what ideas won't.

Why are such experiments to explore the physical nature of our universe so paramount to human endeavor ?

If you drive a car and hit it against another rigid object you might wanna know how hard it will affect you. You might not want to experience that real time. You might wanna hire some confident engineers to do the job in a laboratory. They will take equations that were discovered a century before and simulate the forces in a mechanical setting to give you answers that will be like logical umbrellas. [Or spherical cows !!]

But there are also forces and equations and structures we have stumbled across which we experience but don't understand. What they will bring us 100 years from now is something worth giving a consideration, an worth that runs into billions of dollars as world wide efforts of finding the deepest secrets of nature.

You made my day

On a friday evening I was stressed out and taking a walk when I crossed path with a fellow grad student. He said there is this Ethiopian restaurant where the food tastes like Indian food and proposed I should have this every week. It really had very good flavor. He told me this food is great but I already had my lunch.

I was not feeling great and got talking to him. We talked about certain practical issues about a career in Physics. He had differing but realistic ideas. He went to one of the buildings to finish his food and wanted to know if I would accompany. There were still certain stuff going on in my mind that were hard for me to figure out so I chose to sit in some open space as it would free my mind. There was this music concert going on - it goes on week-ends as its summer but I happened to pass-by this place by coincidence, several times before.

Today the music was great. Some very colorful people were playing the music and almost dancing. I was imagining myself right there among these group of people with my Aloha shirts on, the ones that I actually bought from Hilo Hattie and other places in Honolulu, Hawaii, albeit I was imagining other people that could dance with me...for a moment there I thought probably it would be inappropriate for me given my age. I was looking all around imagining stuff and laughing to myself and I was actually sitting on the stairs. There was this very old lady sitting on a wheel chair behind me on the flat surface just above the stairs in the middle of the park. I looked back when she tapped on my shoulder.

And then she tells this...."I gotta tell you something".
I said "Yes"
She says...."You are one of the most handsome men I've ever seen"
Now I felt a little embarrsed cos I thought for a while I was blocking her view so I said in my characteristic humour "You mean you want me to get out of your way"

On that she says...."No I really mean it" and gave me a really innocent look.
I thought to myself "You made my day although its almost evening".

Whats so funny about that!!

Pissing people off is my oldest habit. Like when the guy ahead of you opens that door and hold it for you, you go through another door and when he opens another door but doesn't care and you say "thank you" he looks back probably he is a little intrigued by you. Its funny the way it happens because you know you thanked for the last door as the latter came in quick succession and he thinks you thanked him for not holding the door.

In some sense my lifes always been like this.