The Eternal Thing

  The bicycles are disadvantageous on the road when compared to the motored vehicles. They move slow. They can't recover quickly if stopped. The intention is just transport - move from one place to another place. Not to speed. Never to chase anyone or anything. It takes a toll on the driver, who burns one's own body to take the bicycle forward. The knees, the sweat, the discomfort on sunny days - it's unexplainable. We are not sure why the driver ended up with cycle. Maybe there was no other choice. If the driver is hurting by riding the bicycle through ups and downs, sun and rain, well and ill, the first thing to note is that the society has failed to save the driver. The human society is supposed to be equal for all, it should provide justice to all. But aren't we damned that we are seeing the poor driver struggling on the road! The best thing one can hope for is for the driver to upgrade the vehicle. Maybe the driver will choose a scooty, or a moped, or a bike - base...

  Unstable incomes.  Unaffordable prices. Unsustainable living conditions. These are the scenes that run through most of the minds in the city environment. Kids who have to grow up witnessing so much of traffic, pollution and noise. Elders who had to witness the most isolated situations in their lives. Looking at either of them is the average first generation middle-aged middle-class human who takes the biggest hit upon arriving to the city. The human often does not come to the city by choice. The human finds a way to live - or more aptly - the human finds a way to survive. Can't shout at the boss. Can't escape the city. Can't access better living conditions. The human is helpless. As if some harsh punishment is given without any apparent reason. This causes a gradual build up of frustration - the kind that can break even the kindest soul. With time, the symptoms of this will start to surface. Losing patience with people on the road, getting easily triggered with family mem...

  But it seems the answer is- such questions exist, Not sure  how many more  to machines, not people? Why are we reaching out for the elite decisions? Why the commons suffer  Why money decides who gets to live? Why is there inequality? but why people are unemployed? I can't end unemployment, but why are there wars? I don't have power to end the wars, but why I have to afford it? I can't afford world travel, but why it needs saving? I can't save the planet, but why it exists in the first place? I can't solve world hunger, 

The consequences of the special theory of relativity are Time dilation and Length contraction - let us try to understand a bit about them: Time dilation: When a body is traveling from one point to another in space at near light speeds, the body can arrive the destination in lesser time than what we generally (intuitively) expect. This is called time dilation. Below is an example: Assume that we are required to travel a distance of 5 light years. Even if we were to go at light speed, our intuition says it has to take 5 years. So we will be older by 5 light years upon reaching the destination. But it does NOT work that way. In fact, it is completely possible that we cover the distance in 3 years. So we will age 3 years only. Now, if we are covering a 5 light-year distance in 3 years - it may seem like we are traveling at more-than light speed. But this should not be possible right? Is this some kind of violation? No. So what's happening exactly here? Here comes the other consequence:...

  Being a kid, we did not know many things. Nor cared about anything. Life was happening and we just took whatever it was. With adulthood looming, we start to learn. A lot. Even worse is today's age where so much data is being dumped into our faces. Many of us are willing to go back to the phase where we didn't care about stuff. It seems peaceful and calming not to take care of things. True though; But... It will not always work out. Being ignorant may not always be helpful. Sometimes, we have to know about things. We have to understand them. Sit with the disturbance it may bring. When starting learning something very deep, it may challenge our initial assumptions. We wonder what we knew till now is very different. This not at all feels good. You love a person, and you understand that person is not reciprocating your feelings. Being aware of this fact makes you uneasy. Unbelievable. You wonder what's happening. But it's just that. The only way is to accept and move forw...

Special relativity states that the light speed is always fixed. This was (and is) very counter intuitive to understand, but it is what it is.  For example, if you are going at a speed of 0.8c (c = speed of light) along the direction of light,  then the conventional (newtonian) physics says that the relative velocity between you and the light is 0.2c only! That light appears to go slower if you are travelling faster.  But special relativity says NO! Irrespective of our speed, we always measure the speed of light as 'c'. It's just that. Light speed never gonna change (in this universe). Also it's the maximum limit of anything that can move. Especially, if any particle has a mass (or to be more specific, rest-mass), then they can never reach speed of light. Now, see it in the other way around. If anything is going at less than speed of light, it should have a mass (again, rest mass) right? How about when light itself is slowing down?? Yes. Refraction. Does light gain mass ...

  Maybe when we were asked to pay for drinking water - we should have known.  That something was going wrong. It was not all right. When they were demanding money (or) selling it as a feature - the things that are supposed to be basic, we should have given it a thought.  We were too busy. We ignored many things. Maybe that was the cause for the today's effects.  NOTE: Thanks ChatGPT for producing this piece- We drank from rivers without fear, Now we sip from plastic, year by year. The water flows behind a brand— And thirst obeys a bottled stand. The wind was once a mother's balm, Now sold in purifiers, stripped of calm. Air itself wears price tags now, And forests bow to urban vow. The night once wrapped us in soft sleep, Now screens invade, and silence weep. We pop a pill to close our eyes, While time slips past in lullaby. The sun was free to touch our skin, Now we chase it in capsules thin. Vitamin D in boxes sold— A warmth we traded, cheap and cold...