The Science

Long time since new post, eh? But "der aaye durust aaye". So, firstly Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening (and for uninterested people, Good Night!) to all the readers of this blog (I am stuck to 8 followers and want you to do a little marketing for this blog honestly, if and only if you feel this blog is a nice one).

 So, here we go>>>>

An exercise I have started as a routine and that is sending scientific messages, precisely SMSes, to all interested people. Actually the following blog is an e-mail I sent it to the Sci-SMS friends but after some discouraging comments which blamed me of wasting their time (as if I am always free! :-@) I was tempted to write this email to them. So here it goes.

NOTE: Here you can assume (sms friends) = you (blog readers), but leave it for now.

****The E-mail Starts****

Almost every day, I am sending you all some FYI smses and some quotes by scientists. Few of you like them and rest think it to be a trash. I am not doing this to irritate you but I have few reasons which have compelled me to do so.

1. People have lost scientific approach towards everything. What you call the scientific reasoning in your day to day life is just a scientific fact you have accepted.

2. We marvel at scientific applications like the cellphone, iPad, IPhone and all. We love the touch screen devices. But can you marvel at the science behind it? Can you marvel at the operating system intelligence behind it? Can you marvel that how 1 and 0 that can provide you with the most powerful and funky gadgets, you ever thought? Can you marvel that how the idea of using binary numbers might have occurred?

3. Falling standards of the education system, purely examination based study approach of students and teachers and totally discouraging government policy have almost killed the value of science. Discouraging government policy example: The salary of a scientist in ISRO is too low compared to that of a NASA scientist. Difference is ISRO has 99% success rate, almost incomparable to NASA's failure reality.

4. Engineering is a very nice branch. Its meaning is applied science. That means, you should have the basic knowledge else it will be tough to grasp (read again. It will get tough and not impossible to get basic knowledge even at such high level)

5. If people will lose interest in science and research, there will be no progress. Just think, what would have happened if Tim Berners Lee wouldn't have an idea of Internet. What would have happened if William Shockley et al didn't invent semi-conductor transistors? What if Dr. Luke Monteigner would not have found HIV (Human Immuno Deficiency) virus? These are just some vague but true examples. There are many more reasons why progress will stop if scientific approach isn't developed

6. People hate science and see it as an ambiguous, baffling and hyperbolic subject. WRONG! It will never baffle you rather it will purge you of your baffling.

7. I think to be the most powerful thing apart from all and that is religionism. To comment anti-science is now considered to be a status symbol. No one will buy a book on science but people will buy some idiotic so-called aesthetic painting. (Science here: How do you perceive a good painting? How it looks pleasing to you? All because of Golden ratio: 1.618. The Mona Lisa, Our Ear Spiral, the Shell of Snail all are the nature’s beauty designed in this Golden ratio/Golden proportion.)

So these were the points (I doubt whether people will come to this paragraph or not) which are feared in near future and will kill the scientific attitude and approach of people.

I send you some scientific messages just for the sake of you getting spellbound of by the marvellous science. Forwarding philosophical messages without knowledge and just for the sake of forwarding is not an advisable activity to kill time. I know my activity will not be a step to scientific progress. But at least I think that at least some of you will take a bit interest in science after reading it.

Lastly, I would like to give you all an opportunity to be free from my science related messages. Just mail me a simple e-mail telling in short that you don't want these messages. Without getting hurt, I will stop sending you such messages. Because some great person has already said,

"Science is progressing even when you don't know"

Hoping for your reply in an e-mail or a sms.

Chinmay

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