Yesterday just when I was about to sleep memories of class 12 physics book flashed in my mind and I was reminded of ray optics. I was thinking of converging and diverging rays. Suddenly I got stuck to something that was common to both the converging rays and the diverging rays; yes I am talking about the POINT.
The same point can be a source of light and the same point can be the point of illumination. Next I started wondering about the implications of this concept in our everyday life. I came up with the following three before falling asleep…
1. The mistake that we commit today is the point of illumination and is visible to everyone; but sometime later the same point will become the source of illumination guiding us and many others. After all light is for everyone.
2. The point is the same but the way in which it is perceived changes. You may be perceived right one time and wrong the next time. You can be the point of interference or point of divergence. It is all perception.
3. There is no Point in the POINT. The point itself is round.
Now that I have realized there is no point in any point, what is the point in talking about the point? Instead let’s talk about light ….
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Good things do propagate
On Friday I was coming back from office with a colleague of mine and I was sitting behind her on a two wheeler. We were on a signal and since it was around 60 sec for the red light to turn green I asked her to switch off the engine. She did, and what happens next is what I had not expected. The three bikes standing around us switched their engines too and we were all looking at each other.
It was a great feeling that I had, I realized that people are not ignorant and its not that they do not realize it is just that we are a little lazy and careless. The moment somebody tells us or shows us a path, we quickly follow. I definitely believe that good word spreads and people do respond to something. Let us all come together and do our bit in whatever we can to benefit the entire human race.
Come, let us do our bit!
It was a great feeling that I had, I realized that people are not ignorant and its not that they do not realize it is just that we are a little lazy and careless. The moment somebody tells us or shows us a path, we quickly follow. I definitely believe that good word spreads and people do respond to something. Let us all come together and do our bit in whatever we can to benefit the entire human race.
Come, let us do our bit!
Friday, December 25, 2009
WHY ?
Someone sad asks why me? Software professional asks “why am I doing this?” A philosopher asks “why do we live?” but one that that is for sure is that everyone asks why in one form or the other.
Here all why’s will not be answered but we discuss the concept of “why” and its significance.
Why is “why” so widespread and that makes it another why?
Anyways let’s get started.
Most of the questions of why are centered about you. For example: why am I doing this? Why should this happen to me? Why didn’t I pass? Why can’t I do that? Why can’t I get what I want? One thing that we can probably derive from here is that why is always associated with an action. English language itself puts why into the category of adverbs, i.e. something that defines the nature of the action. That action is some purpose. Who needs the purpose? Every one of us. Isn’t it?
The I inside me is the ego and for its satisfaction for it to gain importance it needs to have a purpose. The moment you are without a purpose the ego starts to feel uncomfortable. It starts raising the question why? So human mind questions and human mind answers and keeps on fulfilling the ego. For ego it is very important that there is purpose and so it keeps you into the vicious circle of questioning “why” at every step.
Existence itself is non purposive. We define living being as somebody that has the capacity to produce more of its own kind, trying to give purpose to existence, consider the paradox of what came first into existence was it the tree or the seed? Answer is not available because existence is non purposive. It does not need a purpose to exist. It has always been there. It’s the ego which wants the purpose and creates the question why?
Why is significant only when there is a beginning and an end. And considering living things to be the part of the entirety ever since “why” has no meaning in their life. In all the living things its only humans that ask this question and he is the only one that is unhappy. There is no purpose in existence, only your ego needs a reason for existence not you.
Here all why’s will not be answered but we discuss the concept of “why” and its significance.
Why is “why” so widespread and that makes it another why?
Anyways let’s get started.
Most of the questions of why are centered about you. For example: why am I doing this? Why should this happen to me? Why didn’t I pass? Why can’t I do that? Why can’t I get what I want? One thing that we can probably derive from here is that why is always associated with an action. English language itself puts why into the category of adverbs, i.e. something that defines the nature of the action. That action is some purpose. Who needs the purpose? Every one of us. Isn’t it?
The I inside me is the ego and for its satisfaction for it to gain importance it needs to have a purpose. The moment you are without a purpose the ego starts to feel uncomfortable. It starts raising the question why? So human mind questions and human mind answers and keeps on fulfilling the ego. For ego it is very important that there is purpose and so it keeps you into the vicious circle of questioning “why” at every step.
Existence itself is non purposive. We define living being as somebody that has the capacity to produce more of its own kind, trying to give purpose to existence, consider the paradox of what came first into existence was it the tree or the seed? Answer is not available because existence is non purposive. It does not need a purpose to exist. It has always been there. It’s the ego which wants the purpose and creates the question why?
Why is significant only when there is a beginning and an end. And considering living things to be the part of the entirety ever since “why” has no meaning in their life. In all the living things its only humans that ask this question and he is the only one that is unhappy. There is no purpose in existence, only your ego needs a reason for existence not you.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Divineness- Past, Present and Future
Today I am reminded about a status message that I read a few days back. It goes something like this “Even God cannot change past”.
Contemplating on it, the past and future exist because some things change and that change is what we call time. Now by using the word GOD we attach finiteness to it. It become limiting. Using the term divineness it becomes “the infinite”. “Being” the ultimate existence of a drop of water is the same as the Ocean. A drop exists only on the surface. In the inside it is the ocean. So matter is nothing but the surface of existence. Hence, what science studies is the Surface. The moment we start talking about the energy we move into another level.
What science is trying to find today is the antimatter, something which does not have the properties of matter. That’s has no surface. So what is it that is it trying to find? The inside if everything which is same for me, ocean, dog table and whatever is made up of matter.
At still deeper level there is consciousness that existed, exists and will keep on existing. So what was has never changed in existence and for something that has never changed how can there be time.
Time is not defined for consciousness. It has always been there. So if we say what always existed is consciousness and that’s what we define as God then present past and future does not exist for him. If something that does not exist how can it be changed?
There the question is not about individuality but it is about the whole. The existence is on a whole, not divided into dichotomy of “I” and “Thou”.
Existence is about totality it is not about parts. So the fundamental question “who” is no more relevant. The moment you try to answer “who” you become individualistic, reducing the whole into something. “Who” accepts duality, multiplicity and plurality of things.
Contemplating on it, the past and future exist because some things change and that change is what we call time. Now by using the word GOD we attach finiteness to it. It become limiting. Using the term divineness it becomes “the infinite”. “Being” the ultimate existence of a drop of water is the same as the Ocean. A drop exists only on the surface. In the inside it is the ocean. So matter is nothing but the surface of existence. Hence, what science studies is the Surface. The moment we start talking about the energy we move into another level.
What science is trying to find today is the antimatter, something which does not have the properties of matter. That’s has no surface. So what is it that is it trying to find? The inside if everything which is same for me, ocean, dog table and whatever is made up of matter.
At still deeper level there is consciousness that existed, exists and will keep on existing. So what was has never changed in existence and for something that has never changed how can there be time.
Time is not defined for consciousness. It has always been there. So if we say what always existed is consciousness and that’s what we define as God then present past and future does not exist for him. If something that does not exist how can it be changed?
There the question is not about individuality but it is about the whole. The existence is on a whole, not divided into dichotomy of “I” and “Thou”.
Existence is about totality it is not about parts. So the fundamental question “who” is no more relevant. The moment you try to answer “who” you become individualistic, reducing the whole into something. “Who” accepts duality, multiplicity and plurality of things.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Cooperation in Marketing
Was thinking of the cooperation today and being in the middle of the work running marketing campaigns for one of my clients there came this weird idea about co operation in marketing .
Here I am going to speak about advertising on Google, one of the most preferred advertising channels online. Consider this hypothetical situation where there are only two companies who want to sell the same product and are both running their respective online campaigns on Google . Both have the target to generate 100 sign ups a month @ of $2 per sign up. They are both trying to outbid each other to be on the top spot of sponsored links to get as much traffic to their website as possible.
Suppose the search volumes for the two products remain same during the next two months and the two competitors now agree to cooperate and run campaigns one by one i.e. Company 1 runs the campaign in 1st month and the second company in the second month. Let’s see how the math could change here now.
Since there is only one advertisement, the attention span increases. Since there is no competition the average amount per click would decrease and also the Click through rate on your advertisement would increase, it could be double since there is only one company advertising. The increase in CTR logically should further decrease the Cost per click.
Assuming the conversion rate on the website remains same, I not only get the desired 200 sign ups as I wanted at the end of two months but also achieve it at a lesser cost. The same happens with the other company.
Ideally the math should work.
Here I am going to speak about advertising on Google, one of the most preferred advertising channels online. Consider this hypothetical situation where there are only two companies who want to sell the same product and are both running their respective online campaigns on Google . Both have the target to generate 100 sign ups a month @ of $2 per sign up. They are both trying to outbid each other to be on the top spot of sponsored links to get as much traffic to their website as possible.
Suppose the search volumes for the two products remain same during the next two months and the two competitors now agree to cooperate and run campaigns one by one i.e. Company 1 runs the campaign in 1st month and the second company in the second month. Let’s see how the math could change here now.
Since there is only one advertisement, the attention span increases. Since there is no competition the average amount per click would decrease and also the Click through rate on your advertisement would increase, it could be double since there is only one company advertising. The increase in CTR logically should further decrease the Cost per click.
Assuming the conversion rate on the website remains same, I not only get the desired 200 sign ups as I wanted at the end of two months but also achieve it at a lesser cost. The same happens with the other company.
Ideally the math should work.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
If Blue Was Green
What a weird question is that? How can blue be green? “Green” is “Green” and “Blue” is “Blue”. That’s how it is supposed to be and that’s how it is.
So let’s see if blue can be green. We'll start by defining what is blue and what is green. As a common man I would say that they are both colors. As a science student I would say they are wavelengths which are part of the visible spectrum and each of them produces a different sensation on reaching your eye. That’s why a science student would say blue is blue because it has a particular wavelength and so is the case with green.
Coming back to the question of how can blue be green. Suppose there was a country which did not follow the normal notations that we follow and they called the part of the spectrum we call blue as green. Now for them blue will produce essentially the same sensation as produced by green for us. Now what will happen is, that when I call a color green, a citizen of that country would call it blue. So, Green becomes Blue. For the people of this fictitious land, the sky would be green and grass would be blue, but both would appear as they appears to us. Basically what I mean to convey is that, blue and green are only names and not things that are actually there.
How does it matter if I call blue as green or green as blue? It’s only a thing for recognition and that recognition doesn’t change by changing names.
So I would rather put it like this:
I would interchange the names of colors too i.e. lets change the definitions of blue and green. So that the sky remains blue and grass remains green. Easy isn’t it?
With the help of my HR Manager I circulated this question in my office and here are some of the answers I got.
1. We will get Blue Label (Rs.12000) at the cost of Green label (Rs.400)
2. If ‘Blue was green’, then blue will look like this -> Blue Or
If ‘Blue was green’, then now ‘Blue is Blue’ only (since was is a past tense) Or
If ‘Blue was green’’ then ‘Green will be Blue’...
3. Green card in US will be blue card. Then “Green” would have been more attractive than “Blue”
4. Blue can be green too. It's called Turquoise
5. If Blue was Green Environmentalists would preen!
6. If blue was green, and green was still green, all the cows and buffalos would be confused ... they would want to eat the sky and this would lead to shortage of milk as the poor creatures would be upset.
New ideas are welcome.......
What a weird question is that? How can blue be green? “Green” is “Green” and “Blue” is “Blue”. That’s how it is supposed to be and that’s how it is.
So let’s see if blue can be green. We'll start by defining what is blue and what is green. As a common man I would say that they are both colors. As a science student I would say they are wavelengths which are part of the visible spectrum and each of them produces a different sensation on reaching your eye. That’s why a science student would say blue is blue because it has a particular wavelength and so is the case with green.
Coming back to the question of how can blue be green. Suppose there was a country which did not follow the normal notations that we follow and they called the part of the spectrum we call blue as green. Now for them blue will produce essentially the same sensation as produced by green for us. Now what will happen is, that when I call a color green, a citizen of that country would call it blue. So, Green becomes Blue. For the people of this fictitious land, the sky would be green and grass would be blue, but both would appear as they appears to us. Basically what I mean to convey is that, blue and green are only names and not things that are actually there.
How does it matter if I call blue as green or green as blue? It’s only a thing for recognition and that recognition doesn’t change by changing names.
So I would rather put it like this:
I would interchange the names of colors too i.e. lets change the definitions of blue and green. So that the sky remains blue and grass remains green. Easy isn’t it?
With the help of my HR Manager I circulated this question in my office and here are some of the answers I got.
1. We will get Blue Label (Rs.12000) at the cost of Green label (Rs.400)
2. If ‘Blue was green’, then blue will look like this -> Blue Or
If ‘Blue was green’, then now ‘Blue is Blue’ only (since was is a past tense) Or
If ‘Blue was green’’ then ‘Green will be Blue’...
3. Green card in US will be blue card. Then “Green” would have been more attractive than “Blue”
4. Blue can be green too. It's called Turquoise
5. If Blue was Green Environmentalists would preen!
6. If blue was green, and green was still green, all the cows and buffalos would be confused ... they would want to eat the sky and this would lead to shortage of milk as the poor creatures would be upset.
New ideas are welcome.......
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The Circle
How do you define a circle? A student of class 1 can draw a circle with any round object. A student of class 3 can draw it with the Campus. A Student of class 10 can write a ‘C’ program to draw a circle. Thus, basically any one can make/draw a circle.
So what is it about a circle that we don’t know? Are there some things that we don’t know about a circle? Let’s also discuss how a circle can be used to explain different things/experiences.
The Circle as defined by an engineering graduate would be the locus of all the equidistant points from a given point. Sounds pretty good. One curious thing associated with circle is the mystical number pie. A number that is generally defined as irrational. A number that does not repeat even after 1 million decimal places. A mathematics student would define pie as the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of the circle. The two parameters mentioned above (the diameter and the circumference) are both physical in the world. By physical I mean that they practically exist and we can measure them. But, the weird thing is that the ratio is a number that cannot be expressed. Or a number that cannot be drawn with the same equipment as the circumference and the diameter. Why is this anomaly? Is this the anomaly of the number system or some basic in Maths that I have not been able to figure out? I have heard that a circle is the most symmetric figure in a plane but the pie is almost perfectly non symmetric.
Let’s leave pie out and discuss how a circle can be used to explain some practical things or experiences. Of all things, I would like to write about how life moves in a circle. 16th June was a big day in my life; I got to see the first glimpse of the corporate sector. There has been a long debate about the money and time in this sector. How this sector gives you all the money that you want and at the same time takes away all the time that you have in the world?
I was also thinking on the last two statements when I met an elderly person and asked her what she felt? In her reply she quoted the example of a corporate person who was earning in six figures a month. His wife also brought home almost the same amount. Once their only kid fell ill. The problem was that they both were so entangled in their jobs that they could not take leave. So they decided to leave their kid with the parents of their neighbors (whom they were very friendly with). Now the entire day the kid was feeling low and kept missing his parents. So what impact is this day going to have in the child’s life? I feel when he grows up, he would probably say that no matter what happens I will not leave my kid alone when he/she is ill. So the present generation which we say is more attracted to the corporate sector will eventually give way to a generation which feels that time is more important than money. And the Generation that comes in next will probably feel that there is huge amount of time which might yield more money and hence better comforts, again getting pulled/attracted back into what is “The Corporate” sector.
I guess this is precisely what happens while moving in a circle, the farther you go the more you come back to the origin. This is how life moves in a Circle. Hence if I were to explain it in terms of Math, I would put it like this. Consider a circle with its center at the origin. Now let the upper half represent the corporate sector and lower the so-called public sector having a more regular schedule (i.e the 10 to 5 jobs) and less salaries. There will be a time when people will be more attracted to corporate sector and after its peak, the attraction reduces and a time reaches when people are more inclined to the public sector. The Circle completes and once again it is time for the “money”.
A circle which is most symmetrical, having some asymmetrical parameters defines something which is very abstract.
I guess it’s been long and I think I am getting back to the origin.
So what is it about a circle that we don’t know? Are there some things that we don’t know about a circle? Let’s also discuss how a circle can be used to explain different things/experiences.
The Circle as defined by an engineering graduate would be the locus of all the equidistant points from a given point. Sounds pretty good. One curious thing associated with circle is the mystical number pie. A number that is generally defined as irrational. A number that does not repeat even after 1 million decimal places. A mathematics student would define pie as the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of the circle. The two parameters mentioned above (the diameter and the circumference) are both physical in the world. By physical I mean that they practically exist and we can measure them. But, the weird thing is that the ratio is a number that cannot be expressed. Or a number that cannot be drawn with the same equipment as the circumference and the diameter. Why is this anomaly? Is this the anomaly of the number system or some basic in Maths that I have not been able to figure out? I have heard that a circle is the most symmetric figure in a plane but the pie is almost perfectly non symmetric.
Let’s leave pie out and discuss how a circle can be used to explain some practical things or experiences. Of all things, I would like to write about how life moves in a circle. 16th June was a big day in my life; I got to see the first glimpse of the corporate sector. There has been a long debate about the money and time in this sector. How this sector gives you all the money that you want and at the same time takes away all the time that you have in the world?
I was also thinking on the last two statements when I met an elderly person and asked her what she felt? In her reply she quoted the example of a corporate person who was earning in six figures a month. His wife also brought home almost the same amount. Once their only kid fell ill. The problem was that they both were so entangled in their jobs that they could not take leave. So they decided to leave their kid with the parents of their neighbors (whom they were very friendly with). Now the entire day the kid was feeling low and kept missing his parents. So what impact is this day going to have in the child’s life? I feel when he grows up, he would probably say that no matter what happens I will not leave my kid alone when he/she is ill. So the present generation which we say is more attracted to the corporate sector will eventually give way to a generation which feels that time is more important than money. And the Generation that comes in next will probably feel that there is huge amount of time which might yield more money and hence better comforts, again getting pulled/attracted back into what is “The Corporate” sector.
I guess this is precisely what happens while moving in a circle, the farther you go the more you come back to the origin. This is how life moves in a Circle. Hence if I were to explain it in terms of Math, I would put it like this. Consider a circle with its center at the origin. Now let the upper half represent the corporate sector and lower the so-called public sector having a more regular schedule (i.e the 10 to 5 jobs) and less salaries. There will be a time when people will be more attracted to corporate sector and after its peak, the attraction reduces and a time reaches when people are more inclined to the public sector. The Circle completes and once again it is time for the “money”.
A circle which is most symmetrical, having some asymmetrical parameters defines something which is very abstract.
I guess it’s been long and I think I am getting back to the origin.
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