The Science of Heartbreak

A little help hurt nobody

This post is simply about the fact that today morning I helped a blind man cross the road.

This is nothing to boast about. I have friends who have done the same thing and I really appreciate it because  giving a moment of your time to a stranger who is in need of help is a kind gesture, more so because that stranger is helpless because he is blind. Nor that I want to get any attention , I just feel like writing about it. Very close to my office I took the left turn and saw that blind man standing, I had seen him a few times earlier being helped by someone to go the other side of the road. Today as I was taking the turn and looking in the rear view mirror,  I saw a boy going towards the blind man and I thought he will help him cross the road. But he didn't. I thought what kind of people we have that poor blind man is standing all quiet there and no one is helping him. It didn't take more than a second for me to think that instead of blaming it on people, why can't I go and help him. I stopped my bike , and helped the man cross the road. I feel good about it.

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New Motorcycle

It's a dream come true for me. Last week on October 12th I got my KTM Duke 390 after a long wait of 3 months. Riding a beauty and (beast) like this one is such boost to my inner self. Bike is head turner and the public attention is awesome. It's evident from my smile in the picture that how happy I am. Touring will start now. Let's ride.

Facts That Will Make You Want To Travel

Benefits of wearing a helmet

Wondering why should you wear a helmet? Well why not ! it has so many benefits :

• Saves your head from injuries against impact on road
• Saves your eyes from dust
• Saves your eyes from rains (if raining.. of course duh!)
• Saves your hair from bird poop 
• Helmet makes you look cool, if you are ugly you should definitely wear a helmet
• Saves your money . Yes. If riding without a helmet you meet with an accident , you will spend more in getting the X-ray and MRI scan done , instead spend that money in buying a good helmet.
• Decreases the likelihood of death
• Protects you from wind noise
• Protects you from insects and bugs while riding (unless you like to chew them)
• Protects you from heat and sun rays
• If you are bald and you wear a wig, helmet keeps your wig intact.

The 9 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics

This is NOT an original post. I am just re-posting the content of the original blog.

In 1900, the British physicist Lord Kelvin is said to have pronounced: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." Within three decades, quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity had revolutionized the field. Today, no physicist would dare assert that our physical knowledge of the universe is near completion. To the contrary, each new discovery seems to unlock a Pandora's box of even bigger, even deeper physics questions. These are our picks for the most profound open questions of all.

What is dark energy?

No matter how astrophysicists crunch the numbers, the universe simply doesn't add up. Even though gravity is pulling inward on space-time — the "fabric" of the cosmos — it keeps expanding outward faster and faster. To account for this, astrophysicists have proposed an invisible agent that counteracts gravity by pushing space-time apart. They call it dark energy. In the most widely accepted model of dark energy, it is a "cosmological constant": an inherent property of space itself, which has "negative pressure" driving space apart. As space expands, more space is created, and with it, more dark energy. Based on the observed rate of expansion, scientists know that the sum of all the dark energy must make up more than 70 percent of the total contents of the universe. But no one knows how to look for it.

What is dark matter?

Evidently, about 84 percent of the matter in the universe does not absorb or emit light. "Dark matter," as it is called, cannot be seen directly, and it hasn't yet been detected by indirect means, either. Instead, dark matter's existence and properties are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, radiation and the structure of the universe. This shadowy substance is thought to pervade the outskirts of galaxies, and may be composed of "weakly interacting massive particles," or WIMPs. Worldwide, there are several detectors on the lookout for WIMPs, but so far, not one has been found.

Why is there an arrow of time?

Time moves forward because a property of the universe called "entropy," roughly defined as the level of disorder, only increases, and so there is no way to reverse a rise in entropy after it has occurred. The fact that entropy increases is a matter of logic: There are more disordered arrangements of particles than there are ordered arrangements, and so as things change, they tend to fall into disarray. But the underlying question here is, why was entropy so low in the past? Put differently, why was the universe so ordered at its beginning, when a huge amount of energy was crammed together in a small amount of space? 

Are there parallel universes?

Astrophysical data suggests space-time might be "flat," rather than curved, and thus that it goes on forever. If so, then the region we can see (which we think of as "the universe") is just one patch in an infinitely large "quilted multiverse." At the same time, the laws of quantum mechanics dictate that there are only a finite number of possible particle configurations within each cosmic patch (10^10^122 distinct possibilities). So, with an infinite number of cosmic patches, the particle arrangements within them are forced to repeat — infinitely many times over.  This means there are infinitely many parallel universes: cosmic patches exactly the same as ours (containing someone exactly like you), as well as patches that differ by just one particle's position, patches that differ by two particles' positions, and so on down to patches that are totally different from ours.

Is there something wrong with that logic, or is its bizarre outcome true? And if it is true, how might we ever detect the presence of parallel universes? 

Why is there more matter than antimatter?

The question of why there is so much more matter than its oppositely-charged and oppositely-spinning twin, antimatter, is actually a question of why anything exists at all. One assumes the universe would treat matter and antimatter symmetrically, and thus that, at the moment of the Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been produced. But if that had happened, there would have been a total annihilation of both: Protons would have canceled with antiprotons, electrons with anti-electrons (positrons), neutrons with antineutrons, and so on, leaving behind a dull sea of photons in a matterless expanse. For some reason, there was excess matter that didn't get annihilated, and here we are. For this, there is no accepted explanation.

What is the fate of the universe?

The fate of the universe strongly depends on a factor of unknown value: Ω, a measure of the density of matter and energy throughout the cosmos. If Ω is greater than 1, then space-time would be "closed" like the surface of an enormous sphere. If there is no dark energy, such a universe would eventually stop expanding and would instead start contracting, eventually collapsing in on itself in an event dubbed the "Big Crunch." If the universe is closed but there is dark energy, the spherical universe would expand forever.

Alternatively, if Ω is less than 1, then the geometry of space would be "open" like the surface of a saddle. In this case, its ultimate fate is the "Big Freeze" followed by the "Big Rip": first, the universe's outward acceleration would tear galaxies and stars apart, leaving all matter frigid and alone. Next, the acceleration would grow so strong that it would overwhelm the effects of the forces that hold atoms together, and everything would be wrenched apart.

If Ω = 1, the universe would be flat, extending like an infinite plane in all directions. If there is no dark energy, such a planar universe would expand forever but at a continually decelerating rate, approaching a standstill. If there is dark energy, the flat universe ultimately would experience runaway expansion leading to the Big Rip.

Que sera, sera.

How do measurements collapse quantum wavefunctions?

In the strange realm of electrons, photons and the other fundamental particles, quantum mechanics is law. Particles don't behave like tiny balls, but rather like waves that are spread over a large area. Each particle is described by a "wavefunction," or probability distribution, which tells what its location, velocity, and other properties are more likely to be, but not what those properties are. The particle actually has a range of values for all the properties, until you experimentally measure one of them — its location, for example — at which point the particle's wavefunction "collapses" and it adopts just one location.

But how and why does measuring a particle make its wavefunction collapse, producing the concrete reality that we perceive to exist? The issue, known as the measurement problem, may seem esoteric, but our understanding of what reality is, or if it exists at all, hinges upon the answer. 

Is string theory correct?

When physicists assume all the elementary particles are actually one-dimensional loops, or "strings," each of which vibrates at a different frequency, physics gets much easier. String theory allows physicists to reconcile the laws governing particles, called quantum mechanics, with the laws governing space-time, called general relativity, and to unify the four fundamental forces of nature into a single framework. But the problem is, string theory can only work in a universe with 10 or 11 dimensions: three large spatial ones, six or seven compacted spatial ones, and a time dimension. The compacted spatial dimensions — as well as the vibrating strings themselves — are about a billionth of a trillionth of the size of an atomic nucleus. There's no conceivable way to detect anything that small, and so there's no known way to experimentally validate or invalidate string theory.

Is there order in chaos?

Physicists can't exactly solve the set of equations that describes the behavior of fluids, from water to air to all other liquids and gases. In fact, it isn't known whether a general solution of the so-called Navier-Stokes equations even exists, or, if there is a solution, whether it describes fluids everywhere, or contains inherently unknowable points called singularities. As a consequence, the nature of chaos is not well understood. Physicists and mathematicians wonder, is the weather merely difficult to predict, or inherently unpredictable? Does turbulence transcend mathematical description, or does it all make sense when you tackle it with the right math?

RIP Neil Armstrong .. Yes .. But RIP Brains

While August 25th 2013 marked the first death anniversary of Neil Armstrong, the original moon-walker, one stupid news bit by ABC News has made the whole world think that he died on 27th August 2013 , flooding twitter with RIP Neil Armstrong tweets. Clearly , ABC News is their India TV. One minute silence for these people and many others who chose to go with the majority while ignoring the power of their brains to verify the mass opinion.

Review: The Most Ridiculous Phone Call In The History Of Mankind

First watch the video to know what I am gonna talk about.

I don't understand why did he slam the receiver like that. The demand was being put across in a very polite manner where in our polite robber who first cared enough to call the Manager to confirm if he supplies money for necessities. 10 points to the polite robber for not disclosing his name and address when he was asked to tell the important thing. The polite robber was trying to explain the motive behind his demand ... it was necessity of money , why else will anyone ask for money ? When we were kid we used to ask money from our parents because we wanted to buy something, or to give treat to our friends etc.. we had a necessity!! When the polite robber realized that the manager is not prepared to give the money, he went even higher on the scale of human kindness by asking if the manager actually has the money or not. I mean who does that? To this the manager replies 'Bloody'. How rude is that. It's sad that the conversation didn't end on a happy note. If the manager had clearly told him that he doesn't have the money, I'm sure the polite robber would have called someone else, but this is no way to treat someone. I strongly condemn this video.

Carl Sagan's Influence on Neil deGrasse Tyson

This video actually made me cry. Watch this very short video but the amount of impact it makes on your mind is huge. These are great people, and when they speak , you know what intelligence is. Imagine if everyone in the world is intelligent, unique, open minded and compassionate. People like Neil deGrasse Tyson , Michio Kaku, RP Feynmann, Carl Sagan, Bill Nye have raised the hopes for humanity and a better tomorrow by spreading the word of Science and rational approach as a new medium to think and act. Imagine where the world would be if every one starts thinking like them, in their own unique way.

When do we become conscious?

Everybody knows about consciousness. It's what we are, it's our soul, it's beyond our physical body and even the brain. We are merely the medium for brain to function and perform its action. Brain is its own being. So we can say that our consciousness is our brain's brain. Consciousness is that little voice in your head in which you are reading this text. It's always there, talking to you, thinking for you and even telling you what to do in split seconds before falling or accidents. Consciousness is the sense of good or bad even when experiencing a thing or feeling for the first time.

In an actual experiment to find out when does consciousness kicks in a newborn baby's brain, a newborn baby was made to smell milk first and then acetone. In former case of milk, the blood flow in baby's brain increased, showing more activity in vortex of his brain, whereas when he was made to smell acetone, the foul smell of the chemical reduced the blood flow in his brain. This means the new born baby has a sense of good and bad even before he opened his eyes and saw anything around him, even his own mother!

No other animal has consciousness, and only consciousness makes us human. Make good use of it.

The bigger question is what entity injected consciousness in humans and why not in any other creature on earth.

Sans Movie Watching Sense

So I went for a movie with my sister today .The interiors of the theater were beautiful. It was a huge hall , hence more people so obviously it meant more idiots inside the hall and hence more disturbance during the movie. I was just hoping no idiot should be sitting close to us to disturb.

Well the movie began ( The Conjuring) . People were laughing , hooting and making funny noises during the scary scenes. Needless to say it was getting on my nerves and I was getting frustrated that people pay 150rs. to come and shout throughout the movie and disturb others instead of enjoying the movie. To make it worse, 3 guys sitting to my right also started making noises, clapping , laughing and talking unnecessarily. I managed to ignore them for sometime but their disturbance was increasing. When I could not take it anymore I politely asked the guy on my right " Can you please not make the noises? its disturbing us". To my surprise, instead of understanding what I said, he replied " This is not the way to talk, first you ask everyone in the hall to keep quiet and then you tell us . We also came to enjoy". This came in his broken english and I asked him to keep his voice low but I realized that he is not worth talking to . Moreover, his friends started asking that if there is any trouble and they were getting into attack mode ( because friendship!) . So I decided to keep quiet after that.

Although their disturbance reduced after that, but it surprises me that people don't have the basic sense of keeping their phones on silent mode or to walkout to talk if there is an urgent call. But they choose to keep it in loud mode so that when they get a call, not just him, every one should hear the OM JAI JAI ringtone and after 40 seconds when he picks up the call, he doesn't even walk out and finishes his long conversation inside the hall. Why do such people even exist ? They make me hate people.

I am not saying don't laugh when there is a funny scene, but don't laugh when the whole hall is silently watching and enjoying the movie . If you can , please share this so that this message goes out to people who lack movie watching etiquettes.

Digitals

This was my attempt at photoshop long back. I don't do this anymore.

Original Jokes/Memes Part-3!!!

Why did the tall guy could not open the bra of his tall girlfriend?



Because high hook high hook high high...
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What do you get when you keep few samosas on a carrom board? Carrom carrom samose
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Wasn't Vihar Carol Bag Cannot Plays Das Jan Pat We wake an and marg Ma hip all poor DLF Suck it Tea Luck Nagar

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Tata Nano kitne rupaye me milegi ?

Ek Lakme

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Mujhe chhod doh.... mere hall pe ..

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What did the pencil say to the eraser? Tujhme.. rub dikhta hai yaara mai kya karun...
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Just for fun, name your female dog as 'Haraam' so that when she gives birth to puppies, they will be known as HARAAM K PILLEY. 
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Spotted somewhere in Chennai, who is thirsty now?

Sorry Shaktimaan!

Do you think it will work guys?

Sophisticated cat :

Ain't no twitter bot going trolling me without me trolling it back:

Original Memes & Jokes- Part 2

Earlier post on original memes had gone way too long so here is the second part for it.

Some Success Kid memes:

Yo hipster snake:

This is how you make a science joke even better, who says science nerds are not funny??:

How I feel one day without internet:

Because using % symbol while typing is too mainstream

Facebook faggots

 So got a call from Spicejet ke mausaji

Whenever I think about my ex: 

Special skills spotted on LinkedIn:

This guy was on fire!!

I trolled Myntra.com :

Just the first tweet and he likes to play twitter contests already:

We had a nice time together:

This is how media confuses us!

A meme on riding:

How I feel when she says " I like you only as a friend"

Steps to break up :

 Funny sms I got:

Coincidentally this ad was posted from Gurgaon, horrible people!

F1 trolled India:

On that note: 

I believe I can fly:

NatGeo you ass:

And the guy thought, shayad 4 din baad ladki pat jaye?:

Emails I get

My official email id is given on the company website for a specific purpose but I get emails from people for all kind of work. Some of them are funny and hence sharing those here. Will keep udpating.

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Subject: problems in bullet

SIR,I'M MADAN GOPAL FROM VILL. HAIDEROWAL P.O PIPLANWALA DISTT.HOSHIARPUR.I PURCHASE NEW ROYAL ENFIELD BULLET BIKE LAGWAL DEALER HOSHIARPUR.MY BULLET'S PROBLEMS CAIM PROBLEM.PLEASE SOUTION FOR MY PROBLEMS

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To: Rahul Shankhwar
Subject: Factory Visit

Dear Sir,

i have visited RE factory for getting knowlege in automobile segment(Yaar if you have visited then why are you writing this mail?) . i also a owner of RE Bullet electra 350cc & i am crazy to see a new bullet in a factory . i have a mechanical student 3year at( Mubarak ho , aap baap ban gaye!)  nricem colge in gwl M.P & My classmates are also visiting with me in RE factory so please appoint for visiting sir
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To: Rahul Shankhwar
Subject: NEW SHOWROOM OPEN

Dear, sir
my name is ankit kumar to a new showroom open for a ROYAL ENFIELD to check the location and a permission to new showroom open delhi .
my cell no
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To: Rahul Shankhwar
Subject: asking permission to undergo implant training

we are studying BE.mechanical engineering in arunai engineering college ,thiruvannamalai. we are lover royal enfield (road king )from childwood(wow,they seem to be suffering from the rare disease of erection in childhood).please gave an opportunity to undergo implant training 

( Roadking is not even a Royal Enfield motorcycle)

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To: Rahul Shankhwar
Subject: Re: Job Related

Dear sir,

                Please find attached copy of my resume.kindly help sir i update some time your website(how the fuck he got access to update our website!!)  but not responding till date(sorry bro the website doesn't respond until you feed it a burger)   please move to HR ( no thanks I am fine in marketing)

Thanks
95666xxxxx(That's your name? What an idea sir g!)

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Now I had put up an ad to sell my motorcycle, but this guy seems to be more interested in buying me

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