Anti matters

I think even scientists are not sure about anything concerning antimatter. They say that there is a universe made of antimatter and there is humans made of antimatter in that universe. If antimatter and matter are present in equal in amount in our universe scientist can find only a few antimatters in our universe so they say while the big bang there is a lot of matters have been created than the antimatter and they annihilate with each other and the remaining matter is what the universe is made of! You know there is no antimatter and matter inside the hot ball of big bang!

Scientific morality

Modern critics suggest that Scientists should take moral responsibility for their own advances in science. This corresponds with a perceived inability for moral values to keep pace with scientific progress, cloning being a prime example.

For discussion:

1) At what point is a scientist responsible for his discoveries. In theory the first major step towards the nuclear bomb was Rutherford’s nuclear theory, is he responsible for the ensuing arms race? in a science based on incremental steps, who, if anyone is responsible for scientific progress.

2) If Science is responsible for moral values associated with scientific progress, should politicians be allowed to play with scientific advances through legislation and funding?

3) If a scientific area is found to be morally objectionable by one society, are it better for that society to make the greatest advances in that science so as to control its direction rather than banning it and allowing a society without such objections to move ahead without such restraints.

The importance of the first voice

She did her best to push everything out of her mind, choosing instead to focus by losing herself in the mere act of jogging. The utter repitition of picking up her feet and putting them back down again, one at a time, over and over, the scenery changing both suddenly and gradually, looking up and realizing over ragged breath that she'd come nearly two miles was therapy in and of itself. And to think that people pay for doctors, she laughed as she took and kicked forward again, her mind drifting away from running and where she was until reality jammed its way back into her life, jammed itself right and square and undeniable as before her she saw

My visit to IIT madras

I visited IIT madras during their Open House 2008 and saw a whole new world. I got to touch an army tank, photograph the Renault F1, heard about wind energy generation, rocket launching, saw how tidal waves are simulated and how a power steering works. I got to travel in the GPS enabled IIT bus and was also lucky to see a black buck. The students of the CS department fascinated me and my brother with their Robots. They taught us how to make Robots from broken toys and cars. I bought a T-shirt, designed by the CS students, as a memento.The T-shirt read "The end is near January 19, 2008 03:14:07 GMT". Well it was not about the world coming to an end, like I thought initially, but the end of all computers based on 32 'bit' architecture.