Self Certified Genius of the World

      I am sure you have heard this topic discussed endlessly. Free will versus everything we do being pre-destined. I am going to write about it from a scientific perspective. It may not be right exactly but well, what’s the harm in imagining it. So, what is destiny? Destiny is the prior arrangement of what might happen in the future. In the divine sense of the word, God takes a huge book in the sky and peeps over the book whenever a child is born, and scribbles on the book what is going to happen in the poor chap’s life. This is not my version of destiny. My version of destiny is dependent on whether the laws of physics are probabilistic in nature or not. I will give an example.       Suppose you take a beam of electrons and pass it through a narrow slit. It will diffract and form an interference pattern. A priori one cannot predict where a single electron is going. Hence we think of the electron beam as a probabilistic wave which, in...

All of us know the now famous quote of Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg address about democracy “Govt of the people, for the people and by the people”. The circumstances which made it necessary for such a form of governance no longer exist. At that time, monarchs were reigning over the world. And the need of the hour was a system wherein common men (and much later women) could rise and take over the administration of a country. The monarchs, it was felt could become lazy, careless and unconcerned and disconnected about the welfare of society at large and hence the need for one among the common men to take charge of the administration. Almost 150 years later, I think it is time we have a new address, one which proclaims “Govt is the people”. Let me explain. First of all the system, which we follow these days, called democracy was relevant for the people of the 1800's who were oppressed by the presence of larger than life kings and queens. So, in order to rectify the situation, th...

Let me say at the earliest possible opportunity that I am an atheist. I do not belive that the mess we see around us is the creation of a supreme being. The responsibility of the chaos is solely ours as a species. This is more an examination of the monotheistic beliefs and its repercussions on our behavior towards our fellow human beings. I am not against any religion because for me religion is the reason why we are not cannibals and have a working society. So, the central question here is, can we ensure within the monotheistic framework, the well being of mankind as a whole. That is the question I will try to examine here. Since, I am a very good scientist, what I say will be based on solid reason and logic. The first line of thought is dependent on Milgram’s experiment which was done around the time of Adolf Eichmann’s trial. Adolf Eichmann was a NAZI war criminal and in his defense, he proclaimed that he was merely following the orders given to him by his superiors. ...

Hi. I guess everyone writes their first blog at some point of time. Mine is now. So here it is ... tada my first blog...