In time we are living within the overlapped multiple pasts of life…..
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Paradox of Time
I am the future, the present and the past….
I am more powerful than heavenly GODs as I am eternally forever.
Picture Courtesy : ESA, The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile captured this striking view of the nebula around the star cluster NGC 1929 within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way separated by a mere 179,000 light years.
The night sky is a time machine. Look out and you look back in time. But this “time travel by eyesight” is not just the province of astronomy. It’s as close as the machine on which you are reading these words. Your present exists at the mercy of many overlapping pasts. So where, then, is “now”?
As almost everyone knows, when you stare into the depths of space you are also looking back in time. Catch a glimpse of a relatively nearby star and you see it as it existed when, perhaps, Lincoln was president (if it’s 150 light-years away). Stars near the edge of our own galaxy are only seen as they appeared when the last ice age was in full bloom (30,000 light-years away). And those giant pin wheel assemblies of stars called galaxies are glimpsed, as they existed millions, hundreds of millions or even billions of years in the past.
We never see the sky as it is, but only as it was.
Stranger still, the sky we see at any moment defines not a single past but multiple overlapping pasts of different depths. The star’s image from 100 years ago and the galaxy image from 100 million years ago reach us at the same time. All of those “thens” define the same “now” for us.The multiple, foliated pasts comprising our present would be weird enough if it was just a matter of astronomy. But the simple truth is that every aspect of our personal “now” is a layered impression of a world already lost to the past.
To understand how this works, consider the simple fact, that all we know about the world comes to us via signals: light waves, sound waves and electrical impulses running along our nerves. These signals move at a finite speed. It always takes some finite amount of time for the signal to travel from the world to your body’s sensors (and on to your brain).
A distant galaxy, a distant mountain peak, the not very distant light fixture on the ceiling and even the intimacy of a loved one’s face all live in the past. Those overlapping pasts are times that you — in your “now” — are no longer a part of.
Signal travel time constitutes a delay and all those overlapping delays constitute an essential separation. The inner world of your experience is, in a temporal sense, cut off from the outer world you inhabit.
Let’s take a few examples. Light travels faster than any other entity in the physical universe, propagating with the tremendous velocity of c = 300,000,000 m/s. From high school physics you know that the time it takes a light signal moving at c to cross some distance D is simply t = D/c.
When you look at the mountain peak 30 kilometers away you see it not as it exists now but as it existed a 1/10,000 of a second ago. The light fixture three meters above your head is seen not as it exists now but as it was a hundred millionth of a second ago. Gazing into your partner’s eyes, you see her (or him) not for who they are but for who they were 10-10 of a second in the past. Yes, these numbers are small. Their implication, however, is vast.
We live, each of us, trapped in our own now.
The simple conclusions described above derive, in their way, from relativity theory and they seem to spell the death knell for a philosophical stance called Presentism. According to Presentism only the present moment has ontological validity. In other words: only the present truly exists; only the present is real.
Presentism holds an intuitive sway for many people. It just feels right. For myself, when I try and explore the texture of my own experience, I can’t help but feel a sense of the present’s dominance. Buddhism, with its emphasis on contemplative introspection, has developed a sophisticated presentist stance concerning the nature of reality. “Anyone who has ever mediated for anytime” the abbot of a Zen monastery once told me “finds that the past and future are illusions.”
Yes, but …
The reality that even light travels at a finite speed forces us to confront the strange fact that, at best, the present exists at the fractured center of many overlapping pasts.
So where, then, are we in time? Where is our “now” and how does it live in the midst of a universe comprised of so many “thens”?
Courtesy : NPR source channel
Questions to GOD
My Dear Lord,
The great and magnificent creator of this marvelous Universe.Answer my question??
Why did you create me in this world and give me all responsibilities that I should bare? Don’t you know you should have given me enough strength ….Don’t simply answer….. Its your karma.Have I never done any good deed to anybody in my whole karma in this universe…Tell me
I have crossed life with most embarrassing and awkward situations and today I stand where I am. (Yes you were there and where are you now gone???)
Tough situations happen to everybody I accept it but wont you soften and balance them and when will you do it??
The warrior within me is completely battered and he has no hopes to raise above and fight.
Will the warrior given his elixir and start his fight with full strength…Answer me Lord, the Almighty……….
Will the Battle be won or will the warrior be killed..Answer me GOD…answer me
I am waiting for the answer from you…
Rangoski Matters III Girls,Girls and only Girls
Caution : The below write-up is taken from a Psychology book and don’t blame me.
Universal Laws of Women :
Law 1: Women are Emotional-
They care more about how they feel than how they think. Generally,women tend to be less logical than men.
Have you ever seen hot babes giggling nonstop at some other men’s jokes which aren’t funny to you at all? Did you find yourself thinking, “Hey, that joke wasn’t funny at all…what’s wrong with her?”
See? You were using logic.
Women interpret humor differently and laugh for different reasons. And most women are easily disturbed by ideas that they are not used to.
It’s a natural self-protection mechanism.
Women are emotional and not logical. Play by this rule.
Law 2: Women are Instinctive-
Do you know that a woman typically decides her relationship with another man in the first half-minute from meeting him? That’s why “first impression” is emphasized so much by so many dating experts.
A woman almost always knows “instinctively” whether you can be a lover within minutes.
Women are instinctive. You should use it to your advantage.
Law 3: Women Want to be Dominated-
The reason women like power and fame is that they are looking to be dominated by the right kind of men. It’s nature. It’s in the blood.
All they need is a good reason. Being made laugh is a good enough reason.
Do you really think women want to control the men they like? Of
course not.
The fact is that one of the sexes always dominates the other. This is true everywhere in nature. It could be the male dominating the female or it could be the other way round…
Women sometimes take on the “dominant role” only to sift through the guys to find the ones they are willing to be controlled by.
Why do women “play hard to get” only in the beginning and not after the relationship?
Usually this happens to a woman at a subconscious level, so never ever point it out to her. She might “get offended” if there’s not enough intimacy between you and her yet.
Law 4: Women Want to Feel Smart-
If you are able to craft and present pieces of information together to a woman so that she can “get it” or say “oh, that’s how it works”, you have more power to make her do what you expect.
There are usually two means we can do this:
1.Release critical information one by one in conversations so that she’s feeling as if she’s “solving a mystery”. Women love that. And that’s why short stories often work better than one-liners.
2.Sometimes instead of telling jokes with obvious punch lines, crack a joke that takes her some time to “get it” (many adult jokes will do the job). You might want to keep an amused look the entire time so she doesn’t think it’s just a lame joke.
Law 5: Women Want to Picture Things-
This is also referred to as the imagery technique.
Basically, women love to picture things in their minds. This is in tandem with their inclination to feel.
Paint wonderful picture to women with your words. If you’re also in the
picture, congratulations, she’ll fall for you very soon if not yet.
Rangoski will continue……
Rangoski Matters II Corporate World
Last post just gave a schema about the corporate world completely portraying the bad face of it.But this post sheds light on the innocent face of the people who join this world with hope as their only source of strength.
In a metro city like Chennai, early mornings will always sight the innumerable Engineering college buses hurrying their way down the road picking up students from their locations to the destination.Despite fog, rain or cold wave parents will accompany their ward to the bus stop and will get a sigh of relief only when their boy/girl gets to the bus.
Everyday parents will say/not say….they will preach their son/daughter to study well so they will be placed in an IT job and settle their life without any problem.Today most of the students make it to the IT jobs and they are very clear with their vision.But my question is will this be a constructive interference or will it create an optimistic environment for them for survival.The answer is no…The real world is bad and specially corporate jungles have many cunning foxes and vicious crocs who can turn these ingenuous lambs and merry crickets to selfish individuals who do whatever they want for their goals.
Nobody is forcing them to chang to this mode but their environment does.Slowly they will reach peak and become ultimately bad in all aspects.This may be a exaggerating idea or parameter of IT but it is there creating more bad from the lesser good.
Most IT companies have changed the work/lifestyle of people which is very much appreciated but at the same time you should have some control over that or else it will burn you out.
One of my friend commented that instead of pinpointing others why don’t you start a company without any of these hassles.My answer was simple.I am ready to take up this herculean task but how many people can come with me and stay neutral.And I clearly know this cannot happen in a single day.The change has to happen within people and they should realize it.Till then we have to wait…
Rangoski will continue……..
Rangoski Matters I Corporate World
Caution : This below write-up is prohibited to IT job lovers,admirers or what so ever they want to call, If you still want to proceed then step ahead and be careful of some barb wires.
Talking about corporates,being myself one I feel embarrassed to tell that this is the world filled with all kinds of power-hungry people who will do whatever they want if they want to grow.Frankly speaking, you should pull the legs of the other to come up.I hate all this kind of s**t thing and never knew it was there in IT/ITES world.
Often called as one of the highly paid jobs and more economy generating one, it never paid for the real happiness of the employee/personnel.You can argue that this is the most coveted job and gives you everything , but it has never made an individual make a think of how he came to this position.He/She thinks that they are the wonder creations of the GOD and others are at their legs.I may be wrong, yet most IT employees lack self-respect, responsibility and discipline and always will have an attitude as an white-collared guy.
Corporate is bad as it keeps you ion dark cold and out of which they will grow mushrooms (Courtesy: Ayan movie, Surya’s first dialogue).Yes he is correct.Because you are the substrate and everything will be sucked out of you and at the end they will give pea nuts.Even the best IT/ITEs/MNCs companies cannot control attrition rates.Everyday we are coming across lot of news about it (But we never take it seriously).Remuneration and the way people are treated will fetch you goodwill about the company everywhere and you can sustain them.But why it happens again and again in India? Maybe it is for giving topics to hot Debates and nothing for the country.
They say the governing principle behind corporates is, ‘Everybody is equal’. I am asking on what basis we are on the same equality ratio.In some top IT/MNCs you will be segregated as IIMs/IITs/Local colleges and your salary will be also divided in spite of all these guys having the same degree(UG/PG etc..)What the f**k do they really want??I am puzzled about this really………….
If such is the case, then they should have literally said only IITs/IIMs are recruited and others please don’t come here.I hate those conditional behaviour and attitude of the so-called f*****g IT/ITEs/MNCs.Yes, indeed they form an important part of the GDP of our country but what they have contributed to the growth of an individual,his attitude,his charisma….A shocking survey showed that India is leading in the world for Diabetes patients who are around the age of 25-35.
A developing country like India will substantially have a lot of youth and their progress is nation’s.If you are killing not killing….putting them on the verge of diseases then will you become a super power at 2020.Never you can…A nation should not narrow itself to one particular stream and say they are grown up in that. You should have a rotund growth in all areas.
Rangoski will continue………….
At the Post Office
Recently I was in a post office to send a MO to my native place. I was standing in a queue waiting for my turn just when I noticed an old man(an Anglo-Indian) probably at his 80s getting the stamps from the post master for the envelopes he had.I sneaked in from the side and saw that it was a letter to his relatives in Australia.
He was asking something in english to the post master who couldn’t understand that and somehow he managed to interpret him.Actually, he was asking for a 20 rupee air mail stamp to be sent to his daughter in Australia.The post master was puzzled at first because he could not understand the old man’s English accent.
I was wondering at that old mans’ effort to send a postal mail when we now have options to send it by internet, mobile etc…But still old people are reluctant to use it and they feel this kind of mechanistic communication can never create a bond between people as a Letter creates.
I can still remember the day when I was taught how to write a (Inland Postal mail) Letter to my aunt living in southern Tamilnadu. Todays generation do not know about its significance and they only rely on the Mobile phone which gives instant talk/chat to your loved ones.Yes, I agree technology has given everything but at the same time it does not have the touch of a humane thought.
Urban train life
Urban trains are an important part of working populace in developing countries like India. They are so inevitable carrying people to different destinations and creating a whole macrocosm in itself. I go to office by train and I have felt that it is a world that awakens at 3.45 in the early morning and goes on till 12.30 in the midnight. This writing is my observation of people I see everyday in trains .
- Grab your patch of space or seat even in the most crowded compartment the moment the person alights at his/her stop. After comforting themselves for a moment, they will start scorning the government for its poor infrastructure and the seating’s in the train.(Quite a common man’s problem,though..)
- Some people even at jam-packed situations continue reading newspapers and books (like me) and totally engrossed in it no matter what happens next to them.
- Also I have seen women cringing for space and murmuring about men’s behavior and their mentality about them but would not say it louder (that’s a different situation) rather annoy at their insecurity and adaptability to that train environment.
- Occasionally, I see physically challenged people who almost blind but have a crystal voice rendering beautiful religious songs for alms, sounding so philosophical that soothes and makes you forget about your world. Whoever hears that song will soon be transported to that song if they have heard it consciously. Such will be the clarity….
- I wondered what makes a physically challenged people (here blind-person) sing with perfect timbre. I found the answer in a journal which says they have developed higher auditory senses in their brain and they can understand the exact tone of the song and that has influenced their singing talents to boosting their voices with more treble and resonate like a real song.
- Often you can see some people selling food items, vegetables, stationery,fruits and make their living out of this and they switch to trains back and forth between stations hoping to get some money for the day.
And lastly, the boat-like swaying on both the sides and the rhythmic sound of the metallic wheels when it changes the tracks really mesmerize you and transports to another world.
I love traveling like this…
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My Bucket List
Everybody in life have a wish list that they always wanted to be done some day or the other. It is the desire of the heart and soul that wants the real happiness in making these wishes come true. One such bucket list of mine is given here. I don’t know if I could i achieve all these but I will maketh.
1.An expedition to Antarctica and a visit to research station Dakshin Gangotri (India’s research base) .
2.A Gondola boat ride in the ‘City of Waters’ Venice, with my wife.
3.A full night stay in a forest in Terai mountains, Himalayas.
4.African safari in the Savannah
5.Wanted to see the Midnight sun lighting the sky in Norway, the ‘Land of Midnight rising Sun’.
6.A swim in the Dead sea, Jordan where you can float even if you don’t know to swim.
7.A visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp (inspired on the movie Schindler’s list)
8.One day life as Western Cowboy with the Mexican hat and revolver.
9.A family tour to Europe.
10.Staying in a Russian submarine patrolling the Arctic seas.
11.Get to the wild Amazon equipped with a camera to capture nature at its vicinity.
12.A day completely dedicated to taste different chocolate varieties of the world.
13.To scale the Machu Pichu site and also get a good panorama of the beautiful lost civilization of Incas.
14.Want to learn Sanskrit language and Devanagari scripts of Ancient India
15.Want to to see the tomb of Vampire in Transylvania castle in Romania.
16.Travel in a Wood ship with massive sails in ocean.
17.Drive the Bugatti Veyron to its top speed.
18.Wanted to speak with famous Tamil sci-fi writer and journalist Sujatha (improbable,because he is dead). But atleast I had a wish to speak with him…regrets
19.Inhabit a no-man’s Island in any part of the world and spend a vacation.
20.Participate in a Mud rally with Subaro Team
21.Pilot a military chopper and learning all the combat tricks of it.
22.Bungee jump on a sunny day.
23.Visit the US congress of Library and get a membership.
24.Dive a HALO jump in the Pacific Ocean
25.A SCUBA dive in the Australian coral reefs
26.Try the Tuxedo suit for the official meetings with Country managers and CEO
27.Develop a sport for Wingsuit flying from cliffs, valleys around the world.
28.Write a book on different women who I have met and have made an impact in my life.
29.A thrilling train journey in Wuppertal, world’s only suspended monorail in Germany.
30.Ride a Mountain cycle
31.Hmm…. the list goes on…
These are just some of the wishes.I dont know I can make all these but I will try my best to fulfill these.
Moral of the Story : Athigama selavu seiya poren nenaikeran(…)
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