Friday, October 13, 2023

quantum brew

Flux on its own, is a random self, therefore it’s maiden name. 

When matter in any form comes in, flux gets a purpose and marries, to set a motion of gay abandon for whatever love. The embodiment of matter in motion meets more such and therefore more flux and more embodies working to reach equilibrium, of an imagine.

Calmness 'as in being cool' in this quantum chaos is the consciousness, maybe ! Observing and doing the responsible/sive tasks nonchalantly and come back home and drink brew merry to wake up to the sunshine and until uncle calls and says fresh brew is waiting guys 😉



Ravishankar, October 2022/23.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Plight of the Nucleus

 

Everyone of physics talks about protons, neutrons, positrons, waves n particle but they don’t discuss the plight of the Nucleus!!😀

While this is metaphorical, I love physics and shared this quite sometime ago, with a dear friend in Jorhat, Arjun Trivedi, a PhD in Physics, worked at CERN, and now started a school for the Tea garden children, Selenghat Valley School..,,, his reply ...

That is actually a very good point, Ravi, and one that my research group was also involved in trying to bring to everyone's attention, which in other words is that everyone is talking~doing more with the parts (electron, proton etc) than the whole (nucleus)! And a lot has to do with how reductionism has somehow become more fashionable — finding parts of the whole for a while was very exciting and even very valuable in subatomic physics, but increasingly it seems that fewer are working on the whole! The theory of the whole continues to be profoundly challenging because relative to the parts that can be analyzed in great parts in a linear domain, when dealing the whole the non-linearities are inescapable, and which even makes the math very hard!
Thank you for sharing with me, Ravi, your thoughts 🤗 It means a lot to me. You are a man filled with many thoughts and emotions, and to get an insight into them is truly special.
I too love physics. It took me a while to get my bearings on its depths, and to summon courage and faith that are prerequisites to being a master in it rather than its technician, and by that time I was at the cusp of leaving physics and returning to India, and, so, could not really develop mastery in it, but am grateful to have come away with such insights that I am finding powerfully to be common across all human thought...

Ravishankar Oct 2023

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Digitisation & Empathy


Visited Jawahar Navadaya Vidyalaya in Titabor, 15 km from Jorhat along with Krishna last week. His children twins, are very bright kids, in class 5 in a state government school. I thought they should move to Navodaya, a beautiful initiative of the government, a school for children of interior India and low income parents. Krishna’s daily income depends on the weather btw!!

Met the Vice Principal and told her why we were there, she was very polite and pleasant, enquired regarding admission to 6th std coming year.
She later said applications were closed for 6th std on 31st August, we were in September already. I asked if there was any way of applying. She said not possible since it’s all online from central office and it’s closed.
Krishna looked disappointed.
I felt bad too.
There was no way. 
There used to be ways earlier I thought though how right they were, a different matter but for right people ways were maybe!

While driving back and talking to Kartik, I said Digitisation has no Empathy.

Can this be addressed by the comfortables in the nu tech environment in which Krishnas and Kamalas live in too and wish to be part of !!

Ravishankar 30/09/2023