We perceive and measure our Universe in terms of Space, Time and Energy.
Quantum Physics tells us that a particle in Universe can exhibit properties of Matter as well as of Wave (Duality Principle) simultaneously.

When perceived as Matter alone, the Universe seems to consist only of Space and Time components. ie. It can have a length,breadth,height and mass(ie. amount of matter within the particle). The volume and area represented with help of length,breadth and height are the measures to represent the distribution of mass over the space.

When perceived as Wave alone, the Universe would shrink to just Energy and Time components. Energy, again, being the measure of rate of change in the space component of particle (wavelength, amplitude and frequency are represented in terms of time and length components ie. space components) sums up the discussion about the entire Universe to be measurable as Space and Time components of Matter and Wave (or non-Matter).

However, such a rigid definition of Universe seems quite impractical and preposterous. For simplicity, we see some particles as Waves while others as Matter and measure them accordingly since measuring them as both simultaneously is impossible for current state of science (Uncertainty Principle).

Looking at Space and Time as two primary assessment factors for the Universe does seem satisfactory because it encompasses everything needed to perceive the Universe in Newtonian Physics. However, in terms of Quantum Physics the definition of Space and Time start to become somewhat unclear and unsatisfactory since Time is dependant upon the Frame of Time Reference used and then so is Space. Moreover, bringing about the concept of Multiverse into it, the amount uncertainty in our perception of particle increases further.

But, however, the underlying component of Change remains constant here. Energy changes its form, Matter changes its state and chemical composition. Also, in terms of Nuclear Physics the Matter is seen to change to energy and atleast theoretically, vice-versa too. Change is not just limited to the bizarre-ness of the universe in the above scenarios. Bring a particle near the Event horizon of a Black Hole and you see Change in its so intriguing form that even 'contemplating' one rigid definition of changes occurring to particles near Event Horizon is very difficult and insufficient.

Unarguably, Change is The fine thread that runs all through the fabric of universe.

An occasional cool breeze after a sultry sweltering June afternoon lured me to go out for an evening-'ride'. It was all so pleasant, the usual bumpy roads, cacophonous vendors, noisome old ladies...all seemed so just perfect with the evening sun setting down cosily behind that old Gurudwara near my place.. :) A yamaha to ride, 70rs in my pocket...Oh ! I was having the best evening of my week when.....Screeeeeech !! I was brought down to a grinding halt by a White Santro coming straight on my face with High-Beam headlights piercing my eyes ! The guy cranked his neck out and yelled a loud "SAALE MAREGA ! ANDHA HAI KYA ! " and I began to wonder if that was an affirmative or an interrogative sentence...so that I should reply appropriately..because if that was a question, I doubted his IQ as to how a blind person could ride a bike..never mind...I ignored him...but most importantly it was a good point he put forth...Was I really blind ?

Well, I could see he was coming the wrong way ! I could see through his windscreen that he was wearing a fake pepe jeans T-shirt although I knew that his car's high beam headlights contracted my iris so small, not much of light could enter it for some time..making other things in-discernable ! Still I was sure I had a good vision otherwise..

But then I realised, it wasn't about my vision...It was actually about my outlook towards the on-the-road-scenario...was I blind ?

I knew that in India, the costlier the vehicle you own..the larger share of road-space you can command...although more than 80 percent of cars on indian roads are financed..but sooner or later, each one pays for what he rides...the more he pays, the more he owns the road-space...it is a tacit understanding among all..

I knew that most driving tests can be flunked for money and the rest are taken in bright daylight, so no one ever learns to use low-beam on roads during dark...

I knew that, the last time the road I was going through, got working street-lights was more than 6 years ago during last to last municipal elections...

And by the way this person was driving, I could see that it was very unlikely that he'd want to use brakes by a safe distance from me...

Knowing all of those things, and yet overlooking all them, it didn't seem so wrong of him to put up that point...after all I had a 'blind'-eye approach, to riding on indian roads, for that evening...and so I felt empathy for discomforting this ignorant under-age-driving guy...but before I could say something...he zoomed off right past me leaving me among a swarm dumb scene-watchers and about-to-be-dead-in-a-week moral policemen oldies... Alas !

Okay let me put it straight before you infer it wrong (thanks to the LIMITED cognitive capabilities that humans possess), this post has "Humans can't make robots smarter than them" written all over it. That in no way is an obstinately preposterous statement claiming humans to be the unchallenged smartest thing on earth, on the contrary, it indirectly intends to state the otherwise.


Now, back to the topic...


A.I. It's everywhere. It's in our tv, refrigerator, car, doors, dishwasher, computer, wallet, chair, and what-not bizarre things around us. It's even in the spell check software that's currently helping me weed off the errors in this post ! The way it has creeped into every nook and corner of our world, and claimed to continue to do so in near future, it is touted to be the next best thing created by humans after, maybe, the invention of Wheel. Humans are working too hard at stuffing a lot of it into self-thinking (or rather self-artificially-thinking) things like Robots. Yes, Frankenstein could come alive. They say they'd make robots that'd clean your homes, cook you food, drive you places and blah blah blah..in short, you could relegate them to all the menial chores you wish be done by them and they won't be querulously whining over pay-raise, or medical break. Okay, till here, sounds acceptable. But, the human optimism goes out of bounds when they say they'd go one step further by making robots that Are Smarter Than Humans !


Before I lay forward my doubts on that, here're some facts.


Humans have been around since last 15 thousand years (okay maybe lesser, if you mean the time since when nature began spewing brad-pitts and other tail-less siblings of him). Since then, they have been meddling with things, studying them, using them, and often changing them for their ease. That way, they have not only developed skills at dealing with the world around them, they have also shaped themselves accordingly to perform better. Yes, playing too much video games make your reflexes faster and thumbs nimbler.


A human starts analysing sights, sounds, smells and feelings of the world around it right since its birth and keeps learning and storing all of the necessary data in its brain till the age of around 9yrs. After that, it is all just a game of coming across something, comparing or filling the missing information about it from the "store-house" memory and acting accordingly.


If all of that experience, skills and knowledge could be converted to Robot-understandable data and fed, downloaded or rammed into its brain, the humans believe they'd bring back another Einstein !


Now, what most of the people are overlooking here is the fact that humans become smarter or dumber by their sheer will and propensity towards certain around them. Geniuses are raised, not born. A smart robot, as soon as it becomes self-aware and smart enough to make decisions, may also decide to, say, start playing video games all day and fill all its memory with data pertaining to just That Particular Domain and eventually do away with the data about other things around him and turn Dumber !. Yes, video games make you dumber as well.


So, you cannot expect a fully self-thinking robot to choose solving complex maths problems, or even do the menial chores that its lesser thinking siblings were doing under your subjugation. Yes again, frankenstein may come alive. And if the Robot makers think that they'd re-wire the robot to do just what they expect it to do, then they're not making it completely Self-thinking ! That's rude ! They're just creating another generation of servile machines capable of doing things more like the way they want be done.


Just like Einstein's children didn't turn out to be Einsteins, Gandhi's weren't another peace-cladding freedom fighters, and Abhishek Bacchan can't act due to their sheer choice, the same may also apply to the Robots in future. We may have to convince them into doing what we feel is right for them. In short, good counselling (read, parenting) would be necessary. No, you cannot blame your parents for your stupid behaviour.


What and how the robots would behave in the near future is yet for all of us to see, but, I feel, not many would stay too smart all through their lives (if they have a definite life-span)

A GRE STUDENT: All articles that coruscate with
resplendence are not truly auriferous.
A NORMAL PERSON : All that glitters is not gold.

A GRE STUDENT : Sorting on the part of mendicants
must be interdicted.
A NORMAL PERSON : Beggars are not choosers

A GRE STUDENT : Male cadavers are incapable of
rendering any testimony.
A NORMAL PERSON : Dead men tell no tales

A GRE STUDENT : Neophite's serendipity.
A NORMAL PERSON : Beginner's luck

A GRE STUDENT : A revolving lithic conglomerate
accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic
plant.
A NORMAL PERSON : a rolling stone gathers no moss

A GRE STUDENT: Members of an avian species of
identical plumage tend to congregate.
A NORMAL PERSON : birds of the same feather flock
together

A GRE STUDENT : Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous
profundity.
A NORMAL PERSON : beauty is only skin deep

A GRE STUDENT : Freedom from incrustations of grime is
contiguous to rectitude.
A NORMAL PERSON : cleanliness is godliness

A GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to become lachrymose
of precipitately departed lactile fluid.
A NORMAL PERSON : there's no use crying over spilt
milk

A GRE STUDENT : Eschew the implement of correction and
vitiate the scion.
A NORMAL PERSON : spare the rod and spoil the child

A GRE STUDENT : The stylus is more potent than the
rapier.
A NORMAL PERSON : the pen is mightier than the sword

A GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to attempt to
indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative
aneuvers.
A NORMAL PERSON : u can't try to teach an old dog new
tricks

A GRE STUDENT : Surveillance should precede saltation.

A NORMAL PERSON : look before you leap

A GRE STUDENT : Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid
minim.
A NORMAL PERSON : twinkle,twinkle, little star

A GRE STUDENT : The person presenting the ultimate
cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal chinnation.

A NORMAL PERSON : he who laughs last, laughs the best


A GRE STUDENT : Exclusive dedication to necessitous
chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion
renders John a hebetudinous fellow.
A NORMAL PERSON : all work and no play makes jack a
dull boy

A GRE STUDENT : Individuals who make their abodes in
vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from
catapulting petrious projectiles.
A NORMAL PERSON : people who live in glass houses
should not throw stones

A GRE STUDENT : Where there are visible vapors having
their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials,
there is conflagration.
A NORMAL PERSON : where there's smoke, there's fire

After a hectic day, yesterday, as I strolled in the Leisure Valley park, a Thought, Spontaneous emanated within me, which goes as..

Walking bare-feet slowly,over the grass lay..
the serene breeze tickling my neck, humming into my ears..flowing over my hands, fragrant and fresh..

Looking past the woods lulled by the wind's rhythm, at the diving sun over the oblivion..

Watching the fleet of roses..melting with colours of love, and joyful fragrances..
the evening slowly retreading into itself as it blends into the night..

Listening to the birds chirp a coalescence of soulful music, and watching them glide over the vast open sky..
Counting the figs and demure leaves beneath my feet..
I feel enchanted..loved, calmed and touched..

and so I muse and ponder...
Isn't this what they call..
Fulfilment..Happiness, Joy, Contentedness...and..love??

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Here is an excerpt from a poem I wrote to myself just before my entrance exams...I speak of my friends, maybe my crush, and my goals. It does sound a bit elementary now, but it still manages to instil the same old zeal in me when I read it over and over again...So I thought of preserving it in a blog...



My Life is a never ending show,
come whatever may, I must go
Striving for my destiny, with pains I grow
all along this path, lonely, I must follow..

Among the innumerable people I meet on my way,
some stay in heart for sure,
Showing you their worlds through their eyes,
their hearts, full of compassion, and oh! so pure

I, but, am a wanderer,
I can't stop there,
They are real people, not paintings
that one could always admire and stare

With them I laugh,
With them I cry,
With just their memories in my mind,
I must someday bid good-bye

My goals are clear,
Achieving them is sure,
For even if I need to bear,
all pains, Surely, I'll endure

P.S. : Since democracy allows anyone to speak for own-self, I know what some of you ass-holes might be thinking of commenting now. It is NOT an english translation of Tanha Dil by Shaan. It is a feeling, a thought, a composition all of my own and I am not concerned if it resembles anything else you might've heard or read somewhere.

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"Time shall run,
Entropies shall increase,
Space shall grow,
Mass shall scatter...
Change is perpetual.."


Nothing, today or here, shall be in its current state of existence forever. Its current state is also an aggregate of factors of change upon it in a changing frame of existence.

"Truth is absolute, all else is relative"

Even in spirituality, the Soul, Light or Truth undergoes a transition in its state of existence with factors of Change. Soul moves from one body to another with change in Time, Light (or energy) circulates universally in various states of existence (chemical, heat, sound etc.) with change in Entropy level and Truth or perception of universe changes with change in perception of Mass and Space that change with change in Velocity that changes with change in Time Frame that changes with change in Time that is ever-changing itself.


But the eternal connection among all, Change, remains perpetually persistent. It is the driving factor responsible for every thing and every nothing. Universe, therefore, has just 2 kinds components :

1)That undergo change or are perpetually changing
2)That are change themselves or are perpetually persistent

Soul, Light or Truth comprises the second kind of components. In a Multiverse view, however, there may be several other forms of the Omnium or All or the Solo Being (or according to me, Change, in the current context)

"All is one; One is All"

Therefore, the Omnium stays perpetually persistent as the Change in changing components (1st kind of components) of the Universe. To escape the cycle of perpetual changing means to acknowledge and contain the set of Omnium.

So,
"Let the Truth prevail,
Let there be Light..."

Be the Change,
Change is Perpetual

I don't quite know if it was the pizza I had tonight or the 'Events' that took place this afternoon that caused me to wake up suddenly and blog all this down, but I've surely realised something important today.

I've been so used to stimulus-reaction or Event-Action based approach of doing things that I'm losing pace with the rational procedure of forming opinions and taking 'decisive' actions. Every time I come across a situation, I get too involved in finding out a befitting solution to tackle it ' at present '. My actions are all based on a stateless protocol that is oblivious of the fact that I might've had a solution to to the very same prob sometime earlier too. Often, or rather more than often, it leaves me with even more difficult situations in the long run. So I get too nervous to sort them out and end up hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL to terminate all of it. That, of course, harms the flow and it takes me quite a lot of time, patience and efforts to restore normalcy.

What is needed here is obviously, an Object(ive)-Oriented mode of execution of things, irrespective of what events users (people) throw at me. There has to be a pre-programmed exception-proof code (of conduct) which shall not be too influenced in case of new events or users. It must be strongly based on logic (reason) so as to be runnable across all platforms (situations). Only then, shall it turn out to be a workable bug-fix to the drawbacks of my Event-Driven approach, as well as, be able to live up to the idea behind the change in approach.


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Here are some of most worthwhile Thoughts, Spontaneous that occurred to me some or other time so I felt like preserving them because each one has some meaning for me, and what better way to arrange them together than to BLOG them ! :

1)When past 12, just go to sleep.
2)Post grad==Chicks.
3)Don't do today what you'll regret tomorrow.
4)When you really start to look for happiness, you get it.

I've spent last 20 yrs of my life..(coincidentally, that's as long as I am today ) listening to bullshit like