... Thinking about Thinking ...

Heyy Bloggies !!!

Oh I can't explain how my fingers are tickling to get busy typing an elaborate essay on a few really interesting topics I have in mind. But sorry for the dissappointment oh little fingers for due to lack of both time and patience, and a couple of exams on my head ( Skool + Coaching ), I'll have to part, with just a few words to say !

Arun and Ankit ! Welcome to our blog ! Arun, the post you wrote about what we are taught ( and what we are not... ) was nothing but true and I just can't help agreeing with it. In a way, I think you exressed a common feeling among all of us. But maybe they don't teach us how to solve the likes of Schrodinger Equation for two reasons that I can think of... firstly, to teach you need to get to know it yourself first ! And secondly, lets be honest here, how many 'general' kids around, do you think, would take much interest to actually learn to solve equations about quantum orbitals ?

Not to discuss the cons, lets think of the pros. Why don't we try learning the stuff we want to ourselves ? And I think this very blog would be a great medium or platform ! So any1 knowing howto solve second degree differentials with a couple of wierd vector calculus symbols in it, plz come up and help ! hehe kiddin lol.

Other than that. I'd like to share a thought. Let me clarify my stand by pre-rationalizing that what I'm going to say isn't SCIENCE for there aren't many things you can proove by experiment about it. Its something common to all of us though, whether we notice it or not. What would you people say about conciousness ? The very thing that gives us this unique ability to question the very laws of GOD ? How can you expalin something like it interms of Physics ? The very entity which keeps us thinking. Which makes us slaves of Time's direction ( not YOU Time ;-) ! ).
I think it has more to do with the laws of nature for in a sense, it is the very genesis of any experimental result ! If conciousness didn't exist ? Would this universe exist ? Or would it matter if it existed ? Or leave alone that, would things like the Uncertainity Principle still exist ?

Sumhow I have this intution that our conciousness, our power to think independantly, is not something which runs by natures laws ! It creates them ! It is the very creator of or universe, and sumhow in the backdrop, every conciousness is related.
I have this instinct that finding the mysterious nature of our conciousness would be a very major step to understand the nature of or create or discover a complete theory of everything !

I have my reasons for thinking so. I can share them, but for that, sometime later.
Till them you guyz n gals can wonder how you CAN wonder ...

Me Take Leave,

May KVamPYs Rule

~ Twish ~

Where Are We Going?

I've slowly gained an immense (I can't encompass it) disdain for our academic syllabus. I'm preparing of the IIT's (as ya'll should know), but I still feel that lack of true persuance of the holy grail of knowledge. As a gentle warning, this is going to be a ranting post, so pardon me if any emotions are flared.

The main problem I have with what we are learning is: WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH IT??? Do we analyse, rip apart and reconstruct situations. What makes a parabola a parabola? There are like a thousand questions which give a very interesting results, GENERAL results. Why don't we deconstruct the situations and understand WHY things happen? I'll give a simple and not very good example: If you find the locus of points from a pair of tangents are drawn to a parabola, such that the intercept made by the pair of tangents on ANY line parallel to the directrix is a constant, it ends up being a parabola PARALLEL to the first one.

Especially in maths, we tend to take a lot of things for granted, that two parallel lines must be straight. If we analyse (which we don't) non-eucledian geometry we see that this is not a condition. We take so many things for granted, that when it comes to interesting new worlds (which represent our world better) we make those same wrong assumptions.

Physics too is becoming a bore. I love physics, and it is my forte, but we take a lot of things for granted again. We derive results for very simple cases, and push them off as universal things. We make horribly inaccurate simplifications of certain differentials. For example the expansion of a rod equation, (L_f = L_o (1+aT), the T is valid only for very small degree changes, in the order of 10^-5 to yield any degree of accuracy, but we use it for things with 40-50 degree differences.

Chemistry is the worst of them all. We were shown Heisenberg's uncertainty princple, without actually understanding WHY it is INESCAPABLE. And Schrodinger's Wave Equation is nothing but a jumble of symbols (though elegant and very professionalistically complex symbols). We are told that it is one of the most important equations there is, and that it can tell the electron density. But WHY? Leave why, how do we apply it? We surely haven't used it ever.
Organic chemistry is a funky subject, because a lot of things are not really known. But I know for a fact that there are good and consistent explanations for most things that we do. But most of the time we have so many exceptions and we have to consider simple rules of thumb: If the product is complex, it is right. If the probable yield of the compound is fractional, it is probably right (I've kinda made these, and they work well).

Why can't we leave this stuff behind? We are in our 12th, and that is definately old enough to understand what's going on. We should understand this world better, and most of what were doing doesn't push us in that direction. No matter what we do, we will have to analyse situations break them down, and there no time too soon. I don't know if it's just me going through these emotions, but knowing that most of you are scientifically orientated, I'm sure that you understand what I'm going through.

Little time, lots of confusion

Let me clarify a few things first up. I am Ankit Sagwal,one of the guys from Dps Rk puram and not the immensly popular ankit pandey(by the way, where is he? still not found the time to join).I will post my photo as soon as i figure out how to do it(maybe that would work). I have not gone through the blog yet(its a lot of text) but i'll surely do it.
I think this space is meant for something more interesting rather than a general talk. Ok lets give you one of my favourites:-

The task is to fill 1cm diameter spheres into a box(cube) of 10cm edge.find the best pattern as well as the maximum possible no.

Short and smart!!

the next few lines might act as an apetizer for u guys(and gals-i can see a lot of them on the list). The question is not as easy as some of the first timers might think. Others might have done the 2d version of it(i should have given that first-comparetively easier)

a square of side 10cm is to be filled with circles of 1cm diameter. find the maximum no.

hint:- slightly more than 100

I think this should be it.Think over it.

Maths has always been a treasure (this is one of the gems)
I've got to rush, make my substitutions in the timesdreamteam(i wonder how many kvpyians know about it(fantasy game of football similar to super selector)) and then get down to study for my maths exam tomorrow(oh!! i have to start taking school exams more seriously).
byeoo

Posted by ANKIT SAGWAL