Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Old and new beauty.

    A new particle or a new equation is like a new beuatiful lady that arrives in town and all the oldish meat go talking about it. And the old beauties go “yeah right, you tried really hard at us”. Just like a lot of old equations are not solved yet. Who will do what is…

  • Higgs really gives mass to other particles?

    [As an analogy] You have to think of Higgs as iron balls that can move on strings like beads. Whereever they go, the strings become heavier and the tiny little balls that can be there gain the weight of this iron ball. In otherwords only when the iron ball stretches the string with its heavy…

  • Whats the meaning of a new particle?

    Now that Force corresponds to energy and you want to make it correspond to potential energy only you have to subtract the energy due to motion only and that will for a good deal involve various transformations etc because you want to be very careful about everything. But once you have known the potential energy…

  • etymoana of “aswathama” mythical horse of Indian Purana

    Aswatahama [written aswathama in IndiaLIT] do you know Aswa: horse in present day usage in India and uma: horse in present day usage in Japan. Is it possible Aswa-t-uma [aswa-bat-uma=an aswa like a uma] points to a hi-breed of two kinds of horses?

  • Ego, Arrogance and Follies. [musings]

    Human arrogance if free from follies can be far more beneficial than arroagance with follies. An arrogance laddened with a propensity to ignore our follies is what leads us towards darkness.

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