Category: Insights

  • The megalomania of numbers.

    The experiments in High Energy Physics can usually be linked with the gigantic. Its contained in its own nature. When compared with the other fields of physics, its size, its numbers and some of its characters stand out in stark contrast. For some these are not very welcome or at the least initiates a sense…

  • Good science survives on giving credit to right person

    Good science survives on giving credit to right person

    A log of a discussion, I had, with a some folks I have never met … On freedom of science and freedom of doing science … Mr Tony Owopetu; To what extent do you think data from scientific research should be shared? Mr Austin T Mohr; Fully, freely, and without reservation. Of course, I’m a…

  • On the nature of incomplete knowledge

    Its a fallacy to be pre-positioned that only a complete knowledge about something gives us a handle on it. Its possible to predict without complete knowledge. Thats our scope in this vast nature. You don’t have to know the whole universe to be able to drive on I-81. You don’t have to know everything about…

  • On brain

    Thinking is like talking in your head. And it makes sense. Its like we hear ourselves inside our head, like the voice came from somewhere within “this” sphere. That just means we can not reify the construction of our brain at the smallest scale. The more we try to the more we find that its…

  • On nature of information

    What is information?? To my mind a piece of useful data or derivative thereof which can be intelligently dealt with is an information. The first example that pops up in my mind is where some one “informs” us about a schedule, a change of plan or the essence of an event. It inherently contains data…