The Scientific Insult!

I hope all of you have seen "Avatar" (Eng) or atleast have heard of it. I was just revising the story when a very illogical and non-scientific side of it clicked me. According to the movie, the Pandora planet is 4.3 billion (!) light years away where man is finding the "Unobtainium" (It is not a hi-fi word. Un+obtain+nium :-P). Just think, can we go that much far? No. But let us assume we are travelling with that much speed (=light speed, which is almost impossible as mass will get infinite) that will sum up as we will need 4.3billion years to reach that planet. Now, they are using teleportation. Recent science: wormhole is the key to teleportation, that too theoretically. Ok, let's check it out as a sci-fi and don't blame it. But is it the right way to press wrong thoughts into the mind of people. Unfortunately, John Cameron has always nastily (illogically) played with science even in his, The Terminator series, where he just has confused people with weird time travelling phenomenon. (James Cameron once told that it was difficult to conceive the idea of Terminator but he didn't specifically answer how he figured it out then. Sci-Fi! :-P) Never mind. (Sh)It happens. But looking at my previous post on science (in fact an e-mail) I think that certain normal misconception among the common people is making them to think science is a kind of non-paying subject and they believe that the person becomes more of a bookish kind rather than real knowledgeable. 

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"

So is the pseudo knowledgeable, pseudo secular, pseudo busy, pseudo cultural (it should be easier to classify such people as Pseudomonas. Don't know? Wiki it!) pseudo humanitarian (I hate when people allege the Large Hadron Collider as a waste and an uneconomic junk. Maybe, one day due to LHC, you may be able to buy diamonds, create healthier plants and what not at the basic sub-atomic or atomic level)

Doesn't matter. Maybe this was a heavy dose for a blog written after a long time. I am surprised by the way. The 10th follower of my blog is named, Kinjal. May I know who you are? :D

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