Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-

Waves, particles and Einstein !
Waves are something that have no mass and move at the maximum speed, mass m = 0. speed c = 1. So whats their momentum? p = m.v = 0? Right? No. For pure waves; momentum does not come from mass. It comes only from motion. (pure wave; they do not have mass) For matter…
-
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…
-
Can we have only one language for the world?
Can we have only one language for the world? See the following German words, (… and corresponding Indian words). You would think Indo-Europian theory of language is valid. But still such a theory might be adhoc and simply a manipulation of what we see in a few instances. In my years of analysis of words…
-

What happens when cows move rapidly !
Cows not moving and moving fast. How does this difference impact the image in a modern digital camera? Honestly I haven’t checked it with old day manual camera neither do I remember what impact motion brings into mages taken by such, eg does anyone remember when he/she took a picture of a friend standing in…
-

“I can’t believe” !
These tricks are not exclusive to Japanese alphabet. I also used them to match with Odia alphabet and south Indian alphabet to remember. Check this out ! い ଇ ಇ ఇ The “i” [said as e, as in english] has a component which is partially same (two circles, if extrapolated) in Japanese, Odia, Kannada, Telugu.…
Got any book recommendations?