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There is a big difference between succeeding in life by being lucky and succeeding in life by being an achiever. You don’t have a choice to be lucky, but you can succeed by achievement. If a person succeeds in life with absolutely no contribution of his/her in it, then it is Luck – Success without...

Here is a rule whose very statement proves the rule to be false.  The rule is Every rule has an Exception So going by its statement, even this rule should...

What is Truth? Truth is a conclusion which a human arrives at based on two factors. 1. The input he receives from rest of the world through his sensory...

The Alien Study July 4 2002… It was 11:30 pm… 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters… In the Bamiyan valley landed an UFO.. Photographs of the destroyed Buddha statues were taken.. compared with the Buddha who once stood there… The left image shows the Buddha who once stood.. and the right once after its destruction by the Taliban… A...

As a kid in the school I had read about this wonderful bird called ‘Arctic Tern’. The life of this bird fascinated me a lot because it is the only species which covers earth from one pole to other, and that too every year! Even we humans with such advanced technology dont travel so much in our lifetime. Every year this bird travels from its Arctic breeding...

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, then we would be so simple that we wouldn’t have been able to understand it ” – Emerson Where do we draw the line about the complexity of an issue and the human ability to understand/resolve it? Are we limited by our thinking ability? What is our thinking ability? It is based on two...

Why did the Ancient Indians invent Zero ? To indicate Nothing in a place value based numerical system, like the binary, decimal etc. So in the number 101, 0 means there is NO value in the tenth’s place. If there was no zero then 101 should have been written as 11, which leaves no room to differentiate between actual 11 and 101. The introduction of a new symbol, o...

Man being an animal who can think, reason and conclude on the one hand, also believes in things for which no known solid scientific proof exists. Why is that? There are things like astrology, god, prayer, omens, etc and many of us believe in it. And yet there is no solid scientific basis for it. Why are we so? One reason is that what we know today as modern science is...

One of the greatest mysteries of quantum mechanics is non-locality. Non locality is if you take two quantum particles that were twins and separate them billions of miles apart, and then do something to one particle here, the other particle billions of light years away will immediately come to know about what you did to that one particle here!! This quantum property has...

Just had a passing thought while thinking about the reason as to why modern science is finding it difficult to come to terms with the finest details of universe like consciousness, awareness, particle non-locality, quantum teleportation, etc. The reason I think is, Modern science tries to formulate everything into the way our human brains can understand. It is like taking...