Category: Understanding the world

  • Falling Masses, the Big Picture.

    Falling Masses, the Big Picture.

    This lecture note will make your life ten-fold easier in the scope of the problems it addresses. Consider it a talisman. I discovered this a couple of weeks ago when I was solving these problems for my own conceptual understanding. So I waited till I can completely enunciate the big picture. When I confirmed that…

  • Demand and Supply and the flip-smart syndrome.

    Some technologies are designed to fail you, so that you will want more and more of them, and you will be prepared to pay higher prices. Laptops and girlfriends come to mind. Lets just discuss the laptops. I originally intended the wrote up as a two line joke, which are not allowed in our civilized…

  • The Singapore maths puzzle.

    Now that I could lean back I guessed the answer for this puzzle after reading it a couple times mindfully. I think the answer is August 17. WHY? I will explain in detail. But first of all the answer I came across here (in NY Times) is obviously misleading and incorrect. They give July 16…

  • There is only one physical favor the Universe did on life.

    But all of them are not stable. We have made great strides in understanding them collectively called as standard model of particle physics which involves electroweak and strong interactions. Its a weird mess of beautiful list of particles and their behavior toward each other. Sometimes there is symmetry breaking sometimes there is symmetry and sometimes…

  • Learning by the skimp !

    Learning by the skimp ! Because learning by the ocean is like swimming the ocean from one side to the another. One can learn only by seeing the quantum. And that is to say to not see anything to begin with. The difference is in the fact that not seeing something is a negation. But seeing something hardly…