This is the third time that I have logged in to my blogger account to write something that I have been fuming about. And why the third time, you may ask ladies and gentleman...Oh I forgot I have no audience to address except me.This is no oration that I am so quite used to giving.
In plain simple terms, my experiment is up and running in the next room and I finally seem to have found one nice working nanotube.Well, these tubes are tiny little things one might ask, how can they be such a problem? For those who know me, these tiny tubes are a pain just like me.
I was and still am a lover.A lover of the mystic beauty of quantum mechanics and the philosophies associated it with it.Surprisingly, till quite recently I was of the belief that this beloved of mine existed in some weird space, intangible and imaginary.But then, eureka and I found that my beloved was for real.These tiny little nanotubes jumped and frisked, gave random signals and demonstrated the power of quantum behavior. Why am I talking about this and how the hell it is related to the "so-called" truth is as mysterious to me as it is to someone who is quite jobless to read my stuff.
Anyways I must mention for reasons unknown to me again, that I am known to be flirtatious, renowned to have started long serious affairs and then dumped all of them, right when things started to peak.For instance, in the first year of my undergrad I was truly, madly, deeply in looooove with Mechanical Engineering.In fact I wrote quite a "personified" poem demonstrating my love which went like...Oh the engines and the rams, I love you to the core,Oh the bearings and the gears,I love you even more...blah blah blah. And then right into my second year of undergrad, every friend on earth knew that I was married. Married? Oh yes, I used to go... Electrical Engineering...That's my soul mate.Oh what pleases you, my friends quired... Power ... It's got power I would say... and that's all I wanted to do ... build giant power systems...did I even know what it meant?
Oh and when I came to JNCASR... my loooooove was device fabrication.Not quite surprisingly I have betrayed my dear friend and started a new dynamic relationship with device characterization and modeling.The reason for this new found friendship is quite selfish (sigh, once again). I intend to seek the love of my friend's best friend... the theoretical and computational science of course. (God,I am a bitch).
Is there a GOD? Let us even simplify the question? My lovers... are they for real? UMmmm Real... yeah... they exist in flesh and blood... perfect and chaste?
NOW WE COME TO THE POINT. HAMMERED AND NAILED...
HOW TRUE IS TRUE ?
What I see as blue might be green for you
(Reference for the above statement can not be given)Not because I am a plagiarist or something.(I HATE LAIRS AND CHEATERS)I can't remember where it comes from.I heard it in a talk last night.
TALK... Interesting... I gave a talk too... Two Days back.
It was quite a debate.A battle actually.The intention of each side was to fight for the rule of LEEC. Which God Damned country is that? Yeah...Yeah I know I resent it.Anyways, LEEC stands for LIGHT( Really ?)Emitting Electrochemical Cells.The fierce battle, a part of which I can narrate was between Alan J Heeger (my academic great grandfather and the GOD of Organic semiconductors... I must give some respect,he happens to be the Nobel Prize Winner), who lead the electrochemical army and George G. Malliras(another giant in the field, who lead the soldiers of electro dynamism).
The battle field was NATURE MATERIALS, March 2008, and both the sides valiantly fought with microscopy images and potential-electric field distribution profiles.
I have lost my point here...anyways
JOURNALS,PAPERS,PEOPLE,EXPERIMENTS,THEORIES,OBSERVATIONS...
NOTHING can be believed you see.NOTHING CAN BE TRUSTED TILL U SEE IT.BUT WHAT I SEE MIGHT NOT BE SEEN BY U and vice versa, OR IF SEEN BY BOTH TODAY MIGHT NOT BE SEEN TOMORROW.
My very Educated mother just showed us nine planets ??????? When was that.
THE TRUTH IS AS TRUE AS THERE IS ANY ETHER FILLING THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
AMEN ???
3 comments:
Apologies to barge in for a quick philosophical comment, am but a passerby who was searching on oration and stumbled across ur blog - and invariably tempted to comment on such an interesting post!
Well, "how true is true" - simple! truth is as relative (and elusive) as it can get to be! :)
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THE TRUTH IS AS TRUE AS THE ETHER FILLING THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE
Not to be relative and be absolute, what's the quantum of measure do we puny humans have? if and when possibly you come with one - it is still subjected to the same question - how true is the absolute in itself?
It is one of those sensitive - endless - subject of debate - whose solution lies in realization and acceptance on the part of the questioner - which might occur at some revealing moment of time and space.
:) A Dogma!
There's no end for the quest for truth! And quests begin with a purpose triggered by an unanswered question - a curious thought - something that piques the rational mind, driving it to dig and analyze, thus triggering it into a cascading, recursive quest on every factor and variable that's stumbled in the process, sprawling like the endless neurons in the brain - each taking a different path to connect to an unknown - each branch unwinding like the layers of an onion .... ultimately ... only to reveal the 'nothing'.
or perhaps ... the higgs boson or the elementary particle - who knows. (am not from a pure science background and just a commoner but with an incessant mind fueled by the quest for knowledge - so, i might be wrong here to quote the above!)
Invariably and quite curiously, the quest leads to the bottom line of what to believe and what not ... and belief comes out of knowledge, satisfaction and realization.
Knowledge can be gained - Satisfaction comes from the Egoistic self and Realization is the one that dawns - at the appropriate time!
Belief, Faith and Hope - which make the pillars of any religion - or for that matter - the factors that keep any person sane!
Science states facts/truth - which are based on proof & evidence - and deep down meets philosophy when the point is hit where a thing can't be explained/explored any further, with the given limits of human mind - and then realization occurs.
When with all the might - a quest - hits at a dead-end the human mind is exposed to the realization of nothing more (until proven wrong!).
So, realizations dawn on most likely at end of quests... taking us to the next plane of thinking and perhaps - understanding!
Look back, with the right introspect, and it'll dawn that life unfolds itself ... as planes of realizations.
At this point, it leads to acceptance, and thus belief ... and to faith ... and hope!
And with only these present, any quest can succeed. Great! now we've reached the point where we started at - a quest for truth! with the realization of how facts and faith are related thru the thread of acceptance.
As a human, the joy de vivre lies in "enjoying the road" - the process rather than accomplishing a thing!
which is what the gita says ...
"karmane vathikarasthe maa balechu kathachana" ...
So, here's an answer given ... ages back ... but maybe which we don't want to accept until we hit the right plane - even to fire the right questions!
keep the faith, belief and hope - and accept the acceptance leading one to realizations, and to the next planes of lets say ... enlightenment! :)
or shall we say, (as the slang goes) :
"That's all there to it folks! Take it or Leave it!"
it's simply as abstract as that!
Let the quest go on.... :)
cheers!
quite true!! :)
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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