iP4

I never thought I could come to say this.. always thought the iPhone was just a phone not worth half the hype. Not until I got the iPhone 4 myself, could realise the immense possibilities it has opened up for me - thanks to the huge app store. I dont regret at all spending all the money..

Step 3/3 - In progress

Step 3 taken, results far far from optimistic..

Where does information down a black hole go???

Stephen Hawking:
Anything that goes down a black hole does not come out. There is absolutely no way out - it only becomes a part of the immense density that comprises the core of black hole.
Why would it be a different case with 'Information' ??
Against the prevalent laws of conservation of energy, the case is different with black holes. There is no release of energy out of a black hole - and similarly no release of information out of a black hole - so no conservation there!

Leonard Susskind (decades later):
There is no way anything is an exception to the law of conservation. That would mean that is a case against the laws of Physics - none can exist like that.
Information that goes into a black hole actually comes out of the back hole, only, it would no longer appear in its earlier form. A signature of the information comes out but it is not distinguishable by humans since it is entirely segregated - seperated - spread out - far flung, at least to perceive. Still, it comes out and is present out there - so there actually is conservation - and the laws of Physics still stand unperturbed.
If the name 'MOHITH' goes into a black hole, what comes out is a signature of the name, only we will not be able to understand it.
output:
M              O                H   


             black hole


T                      I                  H


Mohith Kunta ;) ;) (2010):  
So, what comes out of a black hole is still present out there in the universe - out there waiting to be put together and understood??
Consider this, I will send in the name 'BILL GATES' into the black hole just a few micro seconds after 'MOHITH' went in. Susskind's explanation would hold good here also, and the signature of the second name would also spread out as it comes out of the black hole.
output:
M             L            O                   A       T        I
I                                                                                  S
B                               black hole
                                                                           E
H                 H                  L                G                  T
The above signature still contains the names MOHITH and BILL GATES. Only it is severely scrambled.
Now consider that a few trillion names go into the black hole. The signature picture is very complex - just imagine.
Now as per Susskind, since the laws of conservation cannot have exceptions, so the two names are still out there along with the other few trillion names. So the information is still out there.
But... then... how can you call the output 'Information'??? There is something out there - trillions of alphabets -  when no one knows what they make up for sure - Is it correct to still call the output of the black hole 'Information'? I would just call it random sporadic nothing - can it be called information?. If we go deeper into understanding this, one alphabet M which goes into the black hole comes out, but is no longer M - it would just be a million subparts of a hundred pixels (of which M is made of). Now, imagine what just happened to each alphabet of the names MOHITH and BILL GATES along with the few trillion other names.
What happened was that the input 'information' became output 'nothing'.
Now do you call this conservation? Conservation of what??
Now this is different from other types of conservation like from light to heat. Both light and heat are different types of energy and are understandable.  That is not the case with Information.
It is more like losing the key to a really really complex cipher.

There are ideas out there that black hole computers can be built one day. Lot can go in - stays there heavily dense. Lot of information goes in - what comes out - signature of the information. How can information be reconstructed by the computer out of the 'nothing' that the 'information' has become?

Just some of my thoughts... may be if there is a way to still somehow keep a copy of the key, we may reconstruct information out of nothingness. Imagine the possibilities then - we can know the name of each person who lived on this earth ever, then how the person looked, then every thing he ever did in his life... same for every organism/thing in the universe - living/non living.

Step 3 - Is this the start?

Things have started moving. The pace seems fine.. at times little quick. Hope everything goes well cause I'm putting all the other plans on hold until it settles.

The Immortals of Meluha

My latest read - The Immortals of Meluha by Amish.

This is the story of Shiva, a tribal warrior who rises to become Mahadev - Lord Shiva.
The premise is that all the deities we worship today were actually humans centuries-millennia ago. Humans who have been bestowed with that God like respect from people out of their deeds. Over centuries, the stories of these mortals have been treated with due imagination and fiction making them immortals and Gods we worship today.
I always believed in the same theory as well.

Meluha is the land we all know as The Indus Valley and Meluhans, The Indus Valley Civilization. So the narration was set in the timeline between 3500 - 2000 BC. Meluha was the kingdom built by Lord Ram with all his ideals of a perfect society - a society governed by strict law. The kingdom of Meluha was existing for about more than a thousand years at the time the story begins. So essentially, the story is happening 1000 years after Lord Ram created Meluha. Meluhans were all followers of Sun and hence called Suryavanshees.
As the plot requires, there is a territory called Swadweep, which was the land of Chandravanshees - followers of the Moon. There was rivalry between the civilizations from time immemorial and Ram was worshiped in Swadweep as well.

The legend runs among the Meluhans and the Swadweepans that a Neelkanth - man with blue throat will one day emerge and destroy all evil. Each of the societies out of their ignorance of the principles of the other society believe that the other one was the evil one.
It is at this time that a tribal warrior chief Shiva comes to Meluha as an immigrant and is discovered to be the Neelkanth. It is now the expectation that as per the prophecy that Neelkanth will help the Meluhans end the evils of Swadweepans who have formed dangerous alliances with vile foreigners.

The story which follows is the story of how Shiva turns into Mahadev - weds Parvati or Sati in the story - and  discovers that his conception of what evil is - is completely wrong and that he had already been the cause of the deaths of thousands of innocent Swadweepans in the war he declares on Swadweep while fighting for the Meluhans.

The book is unputdownable like any other book once you started reading. However, I could not understand why the author chose that particular timeline to narrate the story in. Shiva was born and is recognized as a God 1000 years after the time of Lord Rama in the narration. But isn't this flawed when every one knows out of the epic Ramayan that Lord Shiva was already a God when the story of Ramayan begins. Ravana the Asura was said to have been a great devotee of Lord Shiva. Wasn't it Lord Shiva's great bow that Ram breaks at the swayamvar to win Sita.
The narration was at times not reflecting the age - there were parts of the narration in direct speech which lost the mythical feeling - vastly.

This book is to be followed by two more to form The Shiva Trilogy. I'm sure to buy the next one when it comes out.

Is work the best medicine???

The last week was one of good realizations. I was in chaos and there were several things bothering me, the least of all - having too much time for myself. Never in the near past was I so disturbed and yet still sane - being disturbed while being sane is the crevice into which one should never get. Disturbance is a state of the heart while sanity that of the mind - meaning a conflict of the heart and the mind unrealized.

When I'm sane and able to understand that what I feel is a feeling that I should/need not feel, and still can't understand why I'm feeling, and suffer of the thought that I understand what I'm going through. Is there anything in the world that can be a medicine now?, a friendly chat... a phone call... the family... or friends - none??

Then came the third day, with it came work... I have a outlet now - work. I took the plunge immediately like a duck into an oasis with a parched throat. Finding my retreat where there is no more need for the heart and where the mind is too preoccupied to listen to its drone, let alone a conflict. Funny but true - I was rescued from my own heart. Three days of work was what it took to be my original self again. I'm happy now that I realized that I knew what I was going through, found a partner in an unlikely entity - work, and that I'm now able to feel the touch of breeze on my cheek once again.

Why do people study psychology.. when all they have to do is study themselves?.

From A to THE

Isn't this what we all strive for, fight for, aspire for? I, an A, have dreams to one day become a THE. The goal is chalked out and gleaming clear - the path however, is blurred. This endeavor will one day become THE endeavor and I - THE.

The Curious Case of 221-B ~~Reading now

The unpublished diaries of John H Watson, MD.
A good one, yes, really.
Reading Conan Doyle, I could not help feeling there was always a part of the narration that went missing. That was his style, yes completely intentional. Maybe, he thought he would come back to the narrations one day and fill out the missing parts - and it did not happen.
Now. Here is the book by an Indian author attempting to fill in those gouges. And does it well. The writing style fairly resembles Doyle's. You read a narration and say "Yes. I thought the original was not the last of it. Now, this completely explains the story". Then you get to see the flops of Sherlock Holmes. Yes, really! He was not always correct. He was just another detective who got famous(Watson's words).

**The term "Holmesian Canon" has been used more frequently than necessary in the book. The author might have found it fanciful.

The day goes wasted. Yes, absolutely!
Then comes the evening.

What happened??

A dip in the pool ought to calm the fiery nebula of thoughts bulging with whirling tornadoes of fire, ice and emotion, creating eruptions inter creating volcanoes of irritation waiting to blow out with the unforgiving force of nothing fathomable. It always worked.
But why towards this day's dusk, does it seem impossible to leash the havoc destined to be unleashed by myraid emotions???

In simple words, what a bad evening!


**hmmm just discovered, words help relieve pent up frustrations!

Step 2 of 3

Step taken successfully on 24th Jan '10. Result optimistic.

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