Paras Chopra's Blog » Physics http://paraschopra.com/blog about a thing called life Mon, 21 May 2012 16:15:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Are You Guilty of Not Solving World’s Problems? http://paraschopra.com/blog/personal/are-you-guilty-of-not-solving-worlds-problems.htm?nucrss=1 http://paraschopra.com/blog/personal/are-you-guilty-of-not-solving-worlds-problems.htm#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:40:36 +0000 Paras Chopra http://www.paraschopra.com/blog/?p=371 Possibly related posts (automagically generated):]]>

I am. Having read this article intensified my guilt. Aren’t there enough web mashups already? Do you really need to create yet another social network? Web entrepreneurs today are so hallucinated by their own culture that they have forgotten that there is a whole range of important problems to be solved for which the internet is not necessarily the panacea.

I am not suggesting that what they are doing is wrong. In fact, they are making best use of what they know. They are making cool virtual pets simulations, social networks for cats, amazing google maps mashups and a ton of amazing applications which really have potential to revolutionize the world. Imagine, how the world would be transformed if all the cats in the world could actually communicate over the internet. But – here comes the reality – apart from a (very) few cases (read Facebook, Youtube, etc.) the potential for these web apps never seems to be realized. Millions of such useless apps hopelessly float around the web, waiting for someone to discover and use them.

All these web programmers, on the other hand, could devote their time to what world really wants. The world does not want their trivial apps. The world wants its problems of hunger, poverty, thirst, freedom and happiness to be solved. The world wants to prevent millions of children who die everyday due to preventable causes. The world wants to break the vicious cycle of poor nations. The world wants to get better.

Having realized that I have wasted so much making futile web apps that nobody really cares about, I really want to change the world. It might sound naive but that’s where the fun lies. Only the true naive can innovate and invent new business models that solves world’s pressing problems.

So, world, here I come!

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Stumbled across an excellent article in which a scientist shares his thought on whether universe is actually made up of mathematics. My personal view (as if it actually matters) is that it is a very intriguing possibility. Imagine if all mathematical objects are actually their own universes. This way, we would have infinite universes and the grand question of why our universe is special would be solved. Our universe is not special in any way. It is just one of the infinite mathematical objects. The numerals 1, 2, etc. would be making their own dull universe. Our universe could be a very, very complex mathematical object. Wow! This is thing is pretty cool.

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]]> http://paraschopra.com/blog/comics/science.htm/feed 0 The Uncertainity Principle http://paraschopra.com/blog/comics/the-uncertainity-principle.htm?nucrss=1 http://paraschopra.com/blog/comics/the-uncertainity-principle.htm#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:32:25 +0000 Paras Chopra http://www.paraschopra.com/blog/comics/the-uncertainity-principle.htm Possibly related posts (automagically generated):]]>

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]]> http://paraschopra.com/blog/comics/the-uncertainity-principle.htm/feed 0 The Theory of Relativity http://paraschopra.com/blog/comics/the-theory-of-relativity.htm?nucrss=1 http://paraschopra.com/blog/comics/the-theory-of-relativity.htm#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:06:02 +0000 Paras Chopra GUID Possibly related posts (automagically generated):]]>

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]]> http://paraschopra.com/blog/comics/the-theory-of-relativity.htm/feed 0 Time may not exist at all http://paraschopra.com/blog/physics/time-may-not-exist-at-all.htm?nucrss=1 http://paraschopra.com/blog/physics/time-may-not-exist-at-all.htm#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:32:33 +0000 Paras Chopra GUID

See this amazing article.

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“Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost nothing in common: the Dow Jones index history, size of files stored on a PC, the length of the world’s rivers, the numbers in newspaper’s front page headlines, and many more.”

See this article detailing this strange law.

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The article talks about biocentrism. I find the article hinting towards something good; but, on the whole, it is unconvincing. Not at all scientific, in my opinion.

Read it here.

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What is the fate of our universe ultimately? Does the fate keeps changing as we make up new theories? Now, a new (weird) hypothesis for the fate of our universe.

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