Darwin's monkey and Schroedinger's cat

People are running like fools just to prove 'a person wrong'. Indeed, the thought of evolution from monkey to man has imbibed in us. All of us.

If the theory is correct there is no need to prove it! But how do you prove if the theory is correct? Normally we use experimental and check its repeatability. In the case of human evolution the time scale does not allow it. As one study points out that chimpanzees are our closest relatives and not monkeys. Other study says that if the evolution has started with A and ended with B, then A should disappear. But it seems both monkeys and humans are co-existing in their natural habitat. It is truly an incredible task to prove the evolution geneology. In the sense, to match every bone and muscle to its predecessor and prove the minute change that is caused because of evolution is a daunting task indeed. One of the ways for the scientists to foresee the evolution is by looking at the fossils. Human skeleton remains from few million years connect to our ancestors. But the question is how to connect and prove that evolution has happened? Most of the ancient fossils of "humans" may not be feasible for a complete study.

If a person cuts his thumb, then cuts the thumb of his child and then his grand child thumb and then great-grandchild's thumb... will the next generation be without thumb? If not, doesn't it prove  the evolution theory wrong? One of the doctor tested this with rats. He cut the tail of the rats for 10 generations and Indeed, the 11th generation rats had tails!  So what is the timeline for human evolution then?

So on and so forth... Sometimes i question, if lord ram and hanuman can be together in the same era, doesn't it point to the evolutionary tale?

Even better, Sschrodinger's cat is dead and alive at the same time :-) Now, how is that for an evolution story.


Gatz

Science and spirituality

 Figure: A possible model of the organization of science, spirituality, and knowledge. Science and spirituality are juxtaposed with a 'grey' semipermeable barrier between them.Whereas, knowledge is inclusive of science and spirituality.


Knowledge is attained when a person has imbibed both science and spirituality. Spirituality extends the border of science. Where science ends spirituality begins. Science and spirituality are both extensions of each other. It is my opinion that science cannot exist without spirituality and spirituality cannot exist without science. However, the grey area lies as to where science ends and spirituality begins? Or is it intertwined? No, it is not intertwined. Knowledge is the holistic presence of science and spirituality. A person has attained knowledge when he has mastered both science and spirituality.

Amazing thing about having patience

The secret to mastering patience is to do something else in the meantime. Someone apt put. Indeed, its a pain to wait. Especially when you are hoping to get what you want. 

I remember the story of turtle and hare during my school. This bloody turtle really had patience and energy to go a long way. 

In life, we come across many instances either for applying to a job or studies. When you are waiting to get a document from the office. All requires patience. 

Gattz 

Dark Horse

May 25.2014

Have you ever seen a dark horse? If not here it is.

Dark horse is attributed to a person or entity, which is presumed to not to show any signs of significant achievement. Rather, it is attributed to a fact that the dark horse can win the game. However, going by the present form it cannot. A rather presumptuous belief is that dark horse is an entity that will win the game under any given circumstances, which otherwise was thought to be on the loosing side.

Gatz

Cold and Sunny

Stockholm. April 21.2014.

Cold and Sunny. Nothing much going on.  Had to write something after 4yrs. This year is 10yrs of my existence writing blog. Fighting with climate and work. 

Something Called Life:

I had slight touch of fever today... so stayed at home. Nothing much to do. Eat,Watch TV, scan through the mails, relaxing and read through old papers and dairies.  In of the dairies, I found this poem which I had written in December 2005....  It is quite interesting that the state of mind I was in! Hmmm... Let's see:


      Something comes my way,
    with a slow decay. 
    Something goes in flash,
    like a stash of cash.
    Something falls apart,
    through the middle of the heart.

    Something seems so green,
    so clear and pristine.
    As I take a drag
    of a number of fag
    Someone touches me
    I fall on my knee.
    It's what life is all about!
                                  
                                   -Gatz


 

The O-banana

Obama is touring India. Well, it seems he is on a single point agenda. Jobs back home! It  was defined that the jobs will be created by selling $12bil worth of equipments which would create 50,000 odd jobs. I'm not sure how, but let's keep it that way. Whatever it is, there are some first to this events. It is the first time in the
history of US that it has come to India asking for something! back in 1950's when India asked for monetary help to improve its economy, it was turn down... and from then on... India has been reeling on a very slow growth rate... until someone proposed that time has come for India to open its markets.. that happened in 1991...

Well, then what's the problem now? The problem is...US wants India to open up the domestic market also.It seems it is in a deep shit with 9.6% unemployment rate, the economic downturn is NOT all over. With opening up of the domestic market what will happen? All the small time shops have to be shut down. Because the items which would be available in small shops will now be available in desi WALL MARTS. The main target of US is the agriculture production. India is no 2 in the world in terms of vegetable production. (You can imagine how many from the size of vegetarians). It is top 5 in production of wheat. Right now the cultivable land in US is dominated by the plants for production of oil seeds called bio fuel. our land would be used to feed the people of US whereas their land would be used for production of oil which in-turn will supply the Tankers,Warships, Aircrafts....

Welcome to the New-world of colonization! Let the war for food begin!
   
On the other hand, Are we so vulnerable to external influence? we have been influenced externally all through our history, starting from the Gupta empire till the Britishers. Nothing will change the crux of of living. Going to
chai wala and asking for a single cig will not change even if WALL mart comes and establishes its colony in India. There will still be a chai wala next to Wall mart selling his beedies. Because that's the way of life! and it will not change. I remember when i used to do my research in IISc. It is completely banned to sell cig's in the campus. But there used to be a cig wala just outside the wall of the campus selling cig's and beedies across the compound. Scientists, professors and the likes of that caliber would take a coffee and then go to this wall and buy cig from this guy who's  standing outside the campus but attached to the wall. I mean we are used to circumvent the rules.

Because we never follow any rules... be it driving on the road or buying items from the shops.. its our way! its our life! we know how to circumvent the rules to our advantage. ;) There is a fear that opening up the domestic market to US companies will ruin us completely. I ask... the farmers are suiciding now... what worst will happen more? One thing might happen... The demand for food like vegetables, grains and wheat would increase. which would drive up the costs in India. Hence the affordability by the normal person will be difficult. I see... Ton's of potatoes are getting rotten in the go-downs... Tons of wheat is getting rotten in the go-down.. who is accountable for all these. I say, the farmers will get a good price for his products if he sells his goods to US companies. Or rather US companies might come directly to the farmers to ask for vegetables, and other products. Well, i am not a economist but suitable strategy and price control would make the situation win-win. But how much win -win ? that is left for time to tell... OR rather to Mr Swami... till then let the O banana roll......


/Gattz