What came first? Chicken or an Egg? Is it only a Metaphor? What does evolution and science has to say about this puzzle? Is this still a mystery or is there an answer to this puzzle?

Scientists at CERN are trying to smash particles into each other at highest possible velocities to just get a glimpse of this particle, even at the risk of creating a black hole and annihilating earth say critics. What is this Higg’s Boson which the modern physicists are so interested in, some even calling it the God Particle ?!

Well known, little known and unknown facts about spider. What is common between God and a spider? Why is black widow a widow? What did Bruce learn from a spider?

98% of the universe is made up of only 2 chemical elements. Only 25% of the known chemical elements can be created inside a star. Where did the other 75% elements we see on Earth come from? What are we humans finally made of?

Is it sufficient enough if your computer has latest and updated best of the industry security software? Is it possible that somebody can LISTEN to your keystrokes as you type them without even having to be in the same room as yours? Is your keyboard broadcasting what you are typing?

In 1997 Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers had said that “Apple should close its shop and return the money to its shareholders”! 13 years later in 2010 Dell is just one tenth of the size of Apple.

If you create a visual to represent something, and use it to represent something else which is not accurately represented in the given visual – then either there should be a motive behind it or there should be ignorance.

When the moon acts like a slow Shutter to the celestial camera, and when the shutter closes completely the beautiful celestial photograph of a night sky with Sun and its Corona becomes visible.

Even though DNA is called the genetic code, its not code in the sense of a software code or a software program, it has no logic in it, it is more comparable to a software database.

“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? –A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we… are the cure.” – Agent Smith

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future -Marya Mannes We keep hearing the cries every day to save the planet! Environmentalists campaign everyday to save life on this planet!! Recently I witnessed a campaign in which some celebrities wanted to [...]

About 30 Kms away from the IT capital of India – Bangalore – lies a small village called Byalalu. Here if you ask the villagers, about what their village is well known for – the reply you receive will be – we get good rainfall here, people here work very hard and the farmers grow abundant agricultural crops…. Next if [...]

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. Just imagine how nice it would be if you would be able to access all those different systems at office, your ATM, etc without having to remember all those usernames and passwords! Imagine if there was no need for you [...]

It all started long long ago.. 40,000 BCE… In the dense forests of africa a group of pre-historic humans are working hard all day long, lifting rocks, moving boulders, breaking and rearranging them, clearing the entrance of a cave, to build a new home for themselves. Humans then used to do all the physical labour themselves. Each one of them [...]

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star How I wonder what you are? All your light from the world so high Why isn’t it visible in the night sky? Okay, this was my attempt to poetically state the Olber’s paradox Olber looking at the night sky started wondering, and came up with a reasonable paradox of his times that, considering all the light [...]

I am the shark among the fishes, and the Ganges among the rivers – Krishna in Bhagavadgita In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says: The Ganges, above all is the river of India, which has held India’s heart captive and drawn uncounted millions to her banks since the dawn of history. The story of the Ganges, from her [...]

Indian supercomputer Eka (meaning one in sanskrit) built by the Pune’s Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) of the Tata Group is the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world! Great going! The top two fastest ones are from US and the third one is from New Mexico. Then, read a news report which said that MDGRAPE-3, a new super computer from Japan [...]

Whatever is here, is found elsewhere. But what is not here, is nowhere else. – Thus goes a line in the first chapter of Mahabharata In the 21st century, the same could be said about the Internet Internet has become the sum total of the entire knowledge collected by humans all over the known history. Thousands and thousands of new [...]

Disclaimer: Trying to be as non-technical as possible, requires basic physics at the level of quantum mechanics and relativity Scene I Unlike other physicists, Einstein developed almost the complete theory of relativity based on this thought experiments. In other words, he carried out the experiments of his theory in his mind! He set up the required experimental setup, conducted the [...]

Today is the tomorrow that we used to worry about yesterday So folks, stop worrying, for worry is the misuse of imagination. Use your imagination wisely, and think about the shape of time! Shape? Yes, not a physical shape, but an imaginay one. As we are aware, time flows at the rate of one second per second, locally! Why only [...]

How is it possible to see the past via a live telecast? Live means present, right ? How can past be telecasted live? Clue: Light cones. So here we go Wouldnt it be nice if we can watch the actual video of the evolution of our solar system? How were the planets around the sum formed? How were the outer [...]

Never take your life seriously. Nobody gets out of it alive anyway Not only people die, even civilizations die, even planets die, stars die, and so does the universe too! Once I had written an article called How to avoid death , and some cool guy commented on it saying Death can be avoided.. if ppl stop reading ur bullshit [...]

Richard Feynman once said about quantum mechanics If you say that you understand quantum mechanics, and if you are NOT surprised, then you really did not understand quantum mechanics ! The reason being there are so many mysteries and puzzles in the field of quantum mechanics that otherwise would be considered super natural, unscientific, etc by a common man. Feynman [...]

With the successful launch of the India’s multistage GSLV rocket carrying the indigenous communication satellite Insat-4CR on September 2, India has now become capable of launching satellites into Geo Synchronous Orbits with the only other countries in the world with this capability being US, Russia, European Union, China and Japan. India with this launch has now not only lifted its [...]

Brahmaputra + Moscow = Brahmos This is how the name Brahmos was arrived at, using the names of two great rivers of India and Russia, for the world’s fastest cruise missile which travels at a supersonic speed of Mach 2.8!! In fact as of today it is the world’s only supersonic cruise missile! Brahmos is a joint venture between India [...]

We are aware of the search functionality in the internet and on our local desktops We can search for specific information in the internet using search engines like Google.. We can search for specific documents, email messages etc in our local desktop Now what about searching ourselves? Today morning I had forgotten about where I had placed my bike keys.. [...]

When I was in the school once I had read that Jupiter just missed from becoming a star! In other words it was a failed star and became a planet! Jupiter as we know is the largest planet in the solar system, about 2.5 times larger than all other planets put together.. If it had been about 75 times more [...]

Its 2050 AD Scenario I India refuses to vote in favor of a resolution brought by America in the UN. The resolution is about carrying out a military action on some country X for allegedly proliferating Nuclear technology. India argues that there is not enough evidence to support the American claims. America gets angry and imposes sanctions on India! The [...]

‘yamātārājabhānasalagam’ Pronounced as yamaataaraajabhaanasalagam and written in sanskrit as यमाताराजभानसलगं This is a word used extensively throughout the ancient Sanskrit grammar works. The greatness of this word lies in the fact that This is the world’s oldest Combinatoric formula This is the world’s oldest known de Bruijn Sequence This is the world’s oldest known ‘Shift Register’ This is one of [...]

Stem cells as we know are those cells in the body that can grow into any other cells as and when required. Unfortunately adult humans have a very limited set of these cells in specific locations like liver and bone marrow. In animals like salamander for instance stem cells grow back an entire limb that has been cut off! The [...]

As we all know, most of the continental land lies in the northern hemisphere of our planet. Northern hemisphere of earth has been undergoing periodic glacial ice ages. In every 100,000 years 90,000 years have been a glacial ice age followed by a intermediate shorter 10,000 years of moderate temperature. The reasons for these repeated ice ages are not known. [...]

Asimov, the well known science fiction writer long ago framed that man will one day be able to build robots which are as intelligent as or much more intelligent than humans. He also foresaw the need to maintain the superiority of the humans amongst the robots and to make sure that the robots never take over the humans with their [...]

Never allow your mind to get prejudiced about an idea or a thought. The key to really understand things is to have an open mind. If what you have been believeing ever since your birth is found to be false, enquire into it with an open mind and if all evidences point towards it being false, immediately give up your [...]

This post isthe next part ofmy previouspost Ancient Nuclear War Many people have asked me a sensible question about ancient nuclear wars. If it were really true that ancient Mahabharata war was a nuclear war, then where is the leftover radiation? Well, a very good question indeed. I love enquiring deep into things Nuclear bombs leave traces in the form [...]

Hashing algorithm used in naming of the raga (raag); in the melakartha system of Indian classical music.

Hashing algorithm used in modern search engines are also found in ancient indian classical music systems. A detailed explanation of the Indian katapayadi hashing algorithm.

Ayurveda is the oldest known systems of medicines in the world. As the name suggests has its root in the vedas and means the science of longevity. It is a completely herbal based medicinal system. Has zero side effects. More importantly it does not cure any disease independently of the body’s natural immune system. Instead it helps the body’s immune [...]

Pay to die ? Well, yes. Atleast thats what I feel about smokers. When somebody asks me, why I dont smoke, my response is I dont want to pay to die!! Well, I even dont like free cigarette. I hate passive smoking. And today I saw this image which shows how ugly, dirty, disgusting, pathetic, the lungs of a cigarette [...]

Every form of life is being genetically engineered today. Humans are playing the video game of life! Cows are being genetically engineered to produce more milk. Chickens are being genetically engineered to produce more meat. Sheeps are being genetically engineered to produce more wool. Plants are being genetically engineered to produce more fruits and vegetables. Bacteria are being genetically engineered [...]

Suddenly got a doubt today while thinking about archeopteryx. Archeopteryx is the fossil of a creature which is said to have been in a transition phase from dinosaurs to birds. If life evolved as darwin had said say from one species to another, then where are the other fossils of intermediate species? Why havent we found any ? How can [...]

Disclaimer: This post will make sense only to those interested in physics, more precisely to those who know general relativity and cosmology, and want to have a deeper insight into the mathematics of general relativity without having to do any actual Math. Nice to see you continue reading this post, Welcome aboard This is a slightly non technical version of [...]

We classify time as past, present and the future. Past is what has passed off, and future is the unseen, while present is the ongoing transition from past to future. This is what our entire life is all about. A transition from past to future. Lets talk about this present. What we see, is it really the present thing ? [...]

What we see is not what it is! What we see is just a custom mapping and interpretation by the brain of the data received from the eye. What we hear is a mapping of the data received from the ears. What we smell is a mapping of the data received from the nose, etc Lets take for instance, sight. [...]

I Robot – Remember this movie ? Robots made up of intelligent software, want to overtake human beings and rule the earth, bla bla bla The key is artificial intelligence, software that could mimic human intelligence and by the sheer processing power of the processors even overcome(?) human intelligence. Some fear that one day computers will be more intelligent than [...]

Came across this video while doing some research on tilak’s “Arctic home in the vedas” which says that during the Vedic Age India was alongside current arctic region. According to the continental drift theory, all present 7 continents we see now were once attached to each other (as a giant continent called pangea) and then started moving apart giving rise [...]

The british who ruled India wanted Indians to feel that everything west, english and european to be superior, and anything that had to do with Indian culture and history as inferior, unscientific and stupid. Macauley introduced the english education system in India which enforced these thoughts about western superiority and Indian inferiority in the minds of the Indian children. Max [...]

In one of my earlier blogs , I had mentioned that India alone needs one and a half times the energy currently consumed by entire world, if India were to be a nation as developed as USA. The living standards of a developed nation like USA is completely dependent on the availability of energy for all the necessities and luxuries [...]

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made . – Albert Einstein The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays [...]

Around 350 AD – Gupta Empire, Ancient India An iron pillar weighing over 6 tonnes, more than 7 metres tall is constructed in a single forge and is erected on top of the Vishnupada hill (somewhere in modern central India) with sanskrit inscriptions on it in the brahmi script about the great gupta ruler Chandragupta Vikramaditya. Later the founder of [...]

With a combination of nano technology, biotechnology and information technology humans in the future can have a 24/7 health monitoring system in and around their bodies. Tiny molecular nanobots will be designed as expert systems on general health monitoring and will be injected into our body where they will stay forever. They will be travelling via the blood stream to [...]

Does HIV virus kill a person? No Does AIDS kills a person? No Well, AIDS is a situation where HIV virus has destroyed the entire immune system in the infected person’s body leaving the body vulnerable to attack by any tom, dick and harry virus or bacteria. The body with AIDS wont be able to fight any viral/bacterial attack, since [...]

Some date in the not so far future: A guy is filling out an application form at ‘Humanware Bio Labs’ which reads as follows Application Form – Human Body Parts Name : V K Shastry Age: 19 Stem ID: ASFE135254 Replacement Part: Left Hand Reason: Lost in an accident ************* Replaceable human body parts.. Does it sound like a science [...]

The amazing achievements of the ancient Indians in the field of mathematics, science and technology.

If human life is all about memory in the brain then can a human live forever by moving his entire memory from one body to the other? Or is there something more to it?

Do Quantum Mechanical particles have awareness or consciousness? How do ribosomes know what proteins to code and when? How do mesons know when to disintegrate?

The mentioning of anodes and cathodes and manufacturing of electric cells using copper plate in the ancient text of Agastya Samhita.