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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Dil , Dimaag aur Mann

While conversing , people use different words to describe their inner self , the wors being : Dil , dimaag and mann. Ever thought what is the difference between the three (I never did before .. ). Well dil and dimaag have always been different , but which part of the body does mann refer to ? I mean everything is ultimately done by the dimaag only ... then what is mann ? We sometimes use mann and dil as synonyms ... for eg. , if someone is to say "Aaj mera mann nahin kar raha" , he can always say "aaj mera dil nahin kar raha". So dil can be used almost at all the places instead of mann ... but the vice-versa is not true. I mean u can say that "mera dil toot gaya" , but no one says "mera mann toot gaya" or "mera mann dhak-dhak kar raha hai !". So what does actually mann refer to ? I asked my mom ... and she happens to be quite a thinker . Her first reply was that it is dil and dimaag combined , but then she said that that mann refers to your inner conscience , your inner self. Hmm... now that seems like a valid definition. So this discussion is over.

Now the other thing I can not understand that where does the concept of love and heart come from .. I mean why do we always associate love with the heart , when almost everything happens in the brain ..? Hmm... It is no use searching it on the net ... all you can expect to find is loads of sites on love and heart care hospital sites and other irrelevent stuff. A well done search may actually yield results ... but then ... I am not really that interested in knowing the history of it all ... besides ... every site will give me a different history ... so it is of little use . I'll tell u what I think must be the way this concept came into being -
Well , cosider this very olden time , some Mr. X fell in love with this girl Ms. Y. Now some time later it was discovered that Ms. Y loved some Mr. Z. When Mr. X heard this , he got a shock. And then he got a heart attack due to the shock. The heart attack was minor , so he survived it to tell it to others how he fell this great pain in his heart when the love was no more. Later when Mr. Z came to know that Ms. Y loves him , he also got a minor heart attack. When he told the other people about this , they started believing somewhat that love's got sth to do with the heart. The word spread around , and people from different parts of the country confirmed this. Traders spread the word to other countries as well , and so the thing spread everywhere in the world. People confirmed the heart pains , others said that they've felt like this before and still others said that they had this dream wherein God confirmed it to them (The story gets satirical here). The church and the pandits never had a problem to this , so they also accepted the fact and started preaching that the love of God comes from the heart. And so the concept came into being ...
I tell u ... this must be true .. this is what must have happened .. this is how the concept must have come into existance. :-)

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Scientific

Yesterday I was doing a research (not exactly ... but sth like it) on windshield technology. I found out that broken windshields can be repaired. Really ? The thing got me thinking that if two exactly same windshields (which means same make , same batch , same everything ... ) are subjected to some sharp blow , in the identical fashion , at the same exact spot , then will they develop identical cracks ? Well the thing can be tested experimentally , using a simple machine.... but the answer will always be no ...they will never develop cracks in the same fashion. This can probably be attributed to the randomness of the arrangement of glass crystals in the windshield (remember 'Minority Report' ? each ball of wood that rolled out was unique because of the randomness inherent in the wood grains).

And this brings to my mind a similar problem that first came to my mind when I was in class 9th , the day I read about the twin paradox (ref. the special theory of relativity .For anyone who left science ages ago , it is supposed to be some really techie stuff , but the thing is not required here ... so read on ...). The problem considers two twins placed in two identical environments (hypothetical), sth like mirror worlds , and each of them faces the same things the other does , meets the same people etc. Now the problem is ... will they act in the same fashion at the same time throughout their lives ?. i.e. will both feel like peeing together , every single time they feel like that ? Will both mouth the same obscenities in identical ways if they are slapped in identical manners ? Will both of them vote for congress if they are handed the same numbered ballot paper in their respective worlds ? Will both of them stammer in the same fashion when they'll give their first interview (of course to identical bosses in identical offices) ? Or will they be different. Well technically they should behave in the same manner , but I think some thing will again induce some kind of randomness ... so that wouldn't happen . But I will love to see this experiment carried out practically one day (not possible)....

And now that I am talking about strange things , here is another one ... yesterday I was feeling very sleepy and I was yawning as well , but could not sleep. It was 2 in the night , so I forced myself to sleep. Now this happens lots of times , my mind always starts dreaming horrible things when I force-sleep. So yesterday , soon after sleeping , I started having nightmares , about ghosts and speaking clocks and ... and death. At some point of time , I got really frightened and wanted to scream. But tried as much as I might , I could not. I could not even move (and this is not a story that I am narrating ..). The state of temporary paralysis got over in a few seconds . When I finally got up , I was sweating and my limbs were feeling like I have just done a cross country. Now for God's sake .. I don't need a doctor. I happened to read about this phenomenon in the autobiography of the Nobel prize laureate Richard P. Feynman (maybe even I get a Nobel someday ... and just in case you start thinking that Richard P. Feynman was a psychotherapist or sth , I should tell u that he was a great scientist , physics). After that I got up and sat thinking why this happened . And I think I came to the right answer. Maybe all the body systems shut down when u sleep and take some time to start-up again (the way windows takes time to start , even if u hibernated it. My body was always lazy anyways .. ). Anyways .. then I turned on the CD player and slept peacefully , dreaming.

And talking about scientific minds ... Richard P. Feynman once stood on his head and pissed to find out if the piss falls down due to the force of gravity or is it squirted out with some force ... :-) .. now you know what kind of scientific inquisitiveness drives people who end up winning Nobel prizes.