Friday, November 05, 2004

Alternate Power
There is a burning need to find an alternate source of energy now. And that has to be found out before the oil storages expire. The level sophistication reached in storing and using electricity at this stage is immature and not powerful enough for our even day to day travel. Hydrogen abundant but hard to control, produce as well as consume. No way we cant replace every engine with a nuclear reactor. What is the way to go?

Science fiction most of the times, paves way for the actual discovery. But psychic teleportation is something that only magical folks (Harry Potter kind) can only do as far as our knowledge and experience with physics goes. But is there any possibility, if we think by shedding our inhibitions and firm belief on the laws of physics which we have formulated albeit incomplete ones. True, the unifying theory is yet to come. There are many things in this world which we cant see and they will fall outside of our visibility range in the electromagnetic spectrum. Long way to go...

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Come back
Well after a long hibernation. I am back to reading Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick. It is a very good book in its own sense, explaining the nuances and the way crackers work. Actually that book made me so security conscious and made me a non believer of people (in the right way :-)).

Reading Six Easy pieces by Feynman where he explains about the relation between bilogy and physics. Still wondering how that complex DNA manages itself and reproduce on certain patterns more complex in combinations than a chess board. The relation between astronomy and physics brought me back my good old days where I keep on gazing at the sky for stars and constellations. The birth of physics came from astronomy and later on astronomy grew with the help of physics. You cant really differentiate astronomy and astrophysics (if you include mathematics with astronomy, you get astro physics.)

This was a great site which I came upon and a lot of books to read. http://www.techbooksforfree.com/linux.shtml

At the time of this writing, USA is in the process of electing its leader. Fingers crossed.