The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,500 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get that many views.
I came across a turn one day,
The day I came to my new house.
A deserted road, seemed to await me
Meanwhile, the sky had turned gray;
I was humming a tune, cycling,
In the midst of houses with lush green gardens
All alone….with the wind
I burst in a fury of speed
And raced along that road.
A small graveyard, with 3 white painted structures,
Stood under the sky
Their masters, resting in eternal peace.
How I felt jealous of them!
Far away from the dramatic circumstances of this world,
They lay peacefully in the lap of mother earth.
I just went back and forgot about them.
Years later when the whole neighborhood proclaimed
The death of 2 residents within 7 days,
I was shocked.
My mind raced back to that old memory
Of the graveyard.
Next time when I went cycling,
I stopped by and started chatting.
“My friends, someday I’ll join you,
May be not here, but somewhere else
In the land of afterlife
If there was any.
Today I want to ask you, Oh God!
Why did you had to steal a mother from 3 kids,
And a father from the hopes of a 1 year child?
Didn’t you get any one better?
Your thoughts are so bitter, O Lord.
You shattered lives.
You created them.
What’s the fun then?
I know your rules, I’ve to stick to them,
But please, not with the help of these dirty games.
I shriek out to you, dearest graveyard,
I’ve nothing to say at all.
Your silence silences me.’’
Posted in SOMETHING EMOTIONAL
School. Now I have begun to hate my school. Really.
In short, I’ve come to hate myself.
Despite of all my hardwork, everything has gone wrong and now I think that during the whole academic session I’ve been wasting jokes on long faces.
On my long face.
Education has got to serve its purpose; and I really don’t find any sense that why should I be learning something when I really understand nothing of it. According to Einstein, facts can be always looked for in books, but what matters mostly are ideas. Frankly speaking, I dare to say that this does not happen over here. All we know here is to learn like a book worm and reproduce it in exams. And whoa, exams. So many types of exams. Monday tests, practice tests, Term end tests, entrance based examinations and much more. Today I want to ask to one and all who by mistakenly ever passed by my site: Is today’s education limited to these only?
And then the CBSE would uproar: We have introduced CCE[comprehensive and continuous evaluation] for our students which take care for their overall holistic development.
My mom still remembers the day when our school’s Headmaster sir had called all the parents of our class for explaining about CCE. No one understood anything, neither the parents and their kids, nor my teachers. The orders had come from the centre. No one could terminate it. I was in Class 9 then. From 22nd March, I’d be in class 12. Many things have changed. Many lives have changed. Some have changed their lives by increasing their grades, some have lost interest in studies and run after co- curricular activities and the teachers have a tough time writing our long report cards.
All this in the name of education.
It’s not only my story, but it is the story of millions of those kids who are fighting in India to be something in life.
India has come a long way since independence. Many things have changed. The system and way of imparting education has also changed. This current CCE is a great help for the development of poor and average students, but for how long? After class 10 they come to know the heat of education, as I am facing now. All the constructive inferences seem to be destroying me now. So much that I had to think what to write about in my blog. I cannot write a poem now. I’ve gone blank. I know that I’ll qualify in the entrance examinations; there is no substitute to hardwork. This is Indian system of education, I can’t really change it. Maybe it’s not that bad. Maybe they are right and I’m wrong. Maybe. There are so many causes, with overflowing consequences.
I don’t know about me but all these are occuring to me because I love to write more than anything. I love to share ideas. This is my idea of spreading education. Till today in most of the competitions the judges see the creativity of the projects in our schools, not the idea and research behind it. What to say. There’s lot more, but for now I can’t write anymore. More next time.
………Do you know why? Because some scientists are bold enough to say no to his THEORY OF RELATIVITY!!!!!
The latest news and the happiest one too, for me is the discovery of the Neutrino’s speed to be faster than light!!!!!!
Here’s an article I got in internet:
Recently, a group of physicists have been working to measure the neutrinos generated from a particle accelerator at CERN. This group discovered neutrinos arriving faster than would have been expected and they appear to be traveling faster than the speed of light itself, but they draw no definitive conclusions. This has been widely reported as being the end of Relativity, but this is not the case at all. Let’s take a look at what is going on in the experiment and what was reported in the journal article.
First, it might help the reader to gain an understanding of the neutrino. Neutrinos are interesting little neutral particles that have almost zero mass. Due to their nature, they can pass through matter without being absorbed. There are three known types of neutrinos: the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino, and the tau neutrino. The experiment in the journal article is referred to as CERN neutrinos to Gran Sasso, or CNGS. The CNGS team is searching for a phenomenon known as neutrino oscillation where muon neutrinos may change into tau neutrinos. A secondary goal of the experiment is to measure neutrino velocity to a great accuracy.
In the experiment, neutrinos are generated at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) particle accelerator at the CERN LHC complex in Geneva and further accelerated down a 1 km beam line toward the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. At Gran Sasso, a detector instrument called OPERA measures the neutrinos. The distance from CERN to Gran Sasso is 732 km straight through the Earth, traveling up to 11.4 km below the Earth’s surface. Remember, neutrinos don’t interact with matter so the Earth is invisible to the tiny particles.
The distance between the two systems is known to within 20 cm. Time is also measured with extreme precision utilizing GPS timing signals and a cesium atomic clock. The GPS used in timing also allows the team to track any small movements in the Earth itself. This even allowed consideration of the effect of the L’Aquila Earthquake that moved the OPERA detector 7 cm. Due to the nature of the experiment, the time is not calculated with a simple, stopwatch style, start to finish measurement. It instead relies on measurements and comparisons of probability distribution functions at the source and the detector. In other words, there is a lot of math involved. In addition to understanding the timing and position variations in the experiment, the physicists also took into account many other variables, such as day versus night and seasonal changes. The sensitivity of this experiment is roughly an order of magnitude better than previous experiments.
The speed of neutrinos is measured and compared to the speed of light by subtracting the expected time for light to travel the distance from the time for the neutrinos to travel the same distance. One would normally expect this to be zero for neutrinos traveling at the speed of light or negative for any value below the speed of light. The case presented in the article shows a positive value of 60.7 nanoseconds with statistical and systematic errors providing not nearly enough potential difference to account for the positive value. This value has six-sigma significance. This is, obviously, a stunning finding.
The final paragraph is what appears to be overlooked all too often in the reporting on this finding:
Despite the large significance of the measurement reported here and the stability of the analysis, the potential great impact of the results motivates the continuation of our studies in order to investigate possible still unknown systematic effects that could explain the observed anomaly. We deliberately do not attempt any theoretical or phenomenological interpretation of the results.
This is an important paragraph. This is the group of physicists, together, stating that they don’t know how they came to a result that shows neutrinos apparently exceeding the speed of light. They are not drawing any conclusions in this article and are simply providing the finding and the methods used to obtain the finding. They are trying to find where there could be errors in their measurements. They do not claim that the neutrinos are actually exceeding the speed of light, only that the measurements to date show something unexpected. They are reaching out to the high-energy physics community to improve the experiment and data analysis. They are not looking to fundamentally change physics but to ensure that they are producing sound data. We may find that nothing comes of this. We may find that there is an effect known in physics that accounts for the difference. We may find that neutrinos are capable of moving slightly faster than the speed of light. It is simply too early to make definitive, wide-reaching conclusions.
The conclusion that can be drawn from this article is that a group of experimenters found an unexpected result using some of the most amazing and precise instruments and techniques ever created. No matter what is found to be the actual cause of this 60.7 nanosecond variation, the conclusion you can draw is that it is an amazing time in history where such measurements can be made and an exciting time to be a practitioner or admirer of science. Imagine the findings that will be made by the next couple generations of scientists who are sitting in elementary classrooms right now and just learning that a rainbow is the spectrum of sunlight. Einstein wouldn’t be disappointed by these findings; he would be intrigued and proud to see the legacy of great science continuing forward.
When I stared at the newspaper, I was like so happy that I shouted the news to my sis and mom, who weren’t bothered much. After all, one has completed her studies and another is totally unknown about the greatness of this incident.
Everyone is now wondering about this………but I’m wondering why anyone’s not interested to know the speed of neutrino. I’m also not getting the value. But whatever maybe, this subatomic particle of zero mass has astonished everyone. Just compare its speed with a 70 kg man whose average speed is 10m/sec. Humans have a long way to go ahead……………… So now time travelling might be possible, may be we can prove the existence of some special tunnels in space through which we can move to one part of the universe to another without any change in age for us………and I’m not talking about any science fiction. We are really heading towards our destiny. I’m very proud to announce that I want to become a space scientist when I grow up!
[No, not like that!]:p
Posted in SPECTACULAR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Tagged Albert Einstein, CERN, Earth, neutrino, Science, scientist, space, technology, underground
From many days I was searching it, in school, at home and in my coaching class. I wasn’t getting it.. I was getting mad! From where could I get it? Where was it? It had to be somewhere.
I got it finally. But it is incomplete, torn and dusty. I bother to look at it, but still feel to hide it somewhere again, away from the eyes of curious bystanders. No, it’s not my Practical notebook.
It’s my SMILE.
From the day I’ve entered Class 11 I’ve been feeling that something’s terribly wrong with me. So much that I’ve been calling myself NERVOUS BREAKDOWN PERSON IN A MENTAL ASYLUM lately. Surely I’m not that mad! I should have been happy by seeing my old classmates, but rather I’m feeling cold and rusted from within. I want to break the chains and run away, to a dark, dark place, where no one can ever find me. ‘Remaining in solace is the best way’, I felt.
But that was not the solution. I remained in dire silence. My silence at first silenced me, but that was not the question. Everyday some incident or the other happens with me, but still I don’t get used to it. I’m just like a small herb. With one blow, my work is done. I was constantly getting mad at my friends in the first weeks of my classes, but not now. I’ve learnt to respect everyone’s voices, though they maynot even care to look at me. I’ve learnt to help everyone, as I’ve always done, though they may not have one moment of their lives to think about me. Well, who bothers about me?
Here I always forget the perfect answer……….my family. They are always present for me. I may be troublesome, but they love me. That’s what one needs actually.
Again the question comes………why then I’m not able to remain happy?
And then I got the answer just yesterday………..Here it goes…….
I was searching for a bit of peace and sanctity all these days. I exactly don’t know what they mean, but they must be meaning something meaningful and so I thought that their absence was the cause of my sorrow. There’s a lot of trouble at home and my Half yearly exams are ahead. Guess my situation??????
In a whole crowd of people you still feel awkward and lonely if you miss the person you want to be with. Same here. Every time I miss some one or the other and go on thinking and analysing how my life could have been……if all my friends hadn’t reacted to me in this way, this and that: in short, DAYDREAMING. That’s the only thing that gives me happiness, and I smile and laugh like a hyena when my mother smiles and my sister sings and dances with me. I’ve lost my School Captain tie, and I’m feeling powerless without it. I’ve got rotten with lots of mental deformities like inferiority complex and stark depression. I don’t know what to do. Counsellings seem to have no effect on me.
So I’ve let you know about me……and I hope none of you are facing troubles like me. Please say me the real path of happiness and success.
Bye, I’ve to go……..I’ve to search it again………….
I’ve tried to write a ballad: a poem of 14 lines. Hope you enjoy my poem!
The world is so stark, yet bright
For tormentors it seems all right.
Blood sucking perils of this dastardly globe
Succeed through the ongoing slope.
My stark, bleak future and nostalgia of today………
But still there’s no one to bother
In this evil, yet; good, cold and old Universe
Maybe worse things with me might go reverse.
My reality: I’m alive
With a hope that I just might be the right person for others to strive.
But why is it that I’m always left alone?
Won’t anyone shed a tear for me when I’m gone?
That’s it, damn on me, I was born
But I’m getting adjusted……and have new things to learn.
Posted in SCHOOL LIFE IS FUN:], SOMETHING EMOTIONAL
Tagged ballad, friends, nostalgia, perils, poem, slope, transttory world, Universe
15th August, the red letter day
Another one has just passed away
The date in 2011 will never be heard of again,
Like the values of veggies in my today’s market bargain.
Independence, democracy…………what do we think about these?
Nothing but topics to be melted with breads along cheese.
Till today we are afraid for night outs
When I’m away from house my mother has so many doubts.
Afraid, to think I might be alone
Or might be just……….gone.
Why am I dependent till today?
Is it my fault, or of my countrymen?
Oh, this transitory world is so cruel
They can use me up as a fuel.
No food, no water, no electricity,
Is this the right to live?
The right to justice? The right to equality?
Just having the right to vote.
And the right to rot……….
Here, in this very soil of my country
Though the resources are in bounty
There are some things that can’t be done
And foreigners have the guts to call us:
Damned Indians!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this the so called Independence?
We’re still dependent on someone…….
For fuel, for money,for respect………
And for ourselves………..
I hate this!
I want to be independent!
Let’s spread this to all the Indians……..let them be proud of their motherland………and deserve the respect they desire!
Vande mataram!!!!!!!
