Category: Insights

  • Religion is not even “not even wrong”

    There is a famous saying which is ascribed to the famous scientist W. Pauli. He was an early inventor of Quantum Mechanics. A brilliant chap. Really one. He had come up with a brilliant 1/2 liner: opposed to all those 1 liners. It’s called “It’s Not even wrong”. Which means it’s so illogical and inconsistent that…

  • Why nothing moves faster than light !!

    There is an interesting discussion on twitter why “nothing can move faster than light”. I could not resist myself from a simple explanation I also think a similar one might have been given by Einstein himself, long time ago, so forgotten by most when they try to explain it. How does something go faster !!…

  • What’s Force in quantum mechanics?

    If we discover a hitherto unknown (new) particle it just means it had been changing the wave function amplitude but we did not know of it.

  • Why (and how) scientists are prominently related to the question of God?

    Well… Scientists are often known for their thoughts about God. Like their other  pursuits, they are prominently independent about their worldviews of God. Max Born or Einstein, Feynman or Homi Bhabha (?) they have all shown us their independent views about God. It has got nothing to do with God as such. That is independent…

  • Just a little philosophy

    Met a old fellow on a train 11 years ago. (No time travel, just reminiscing) He was dirty and his clothes were torn out. He explained to fellow passengers. What’s Philosophy? (The word for that in Sanskrit is “Darshan” which literally meant visible form or something like that, vision, anything related such as seeing something.) SO…