I am a techie by profession. I love music, science of music, history, sci-fi, Timetravel (which I will do soon), Life on other planets (I strongly believe they exist), Languages like Tamil/Malayalam, humor, gaming, pastel colors, stamps, bio diversity, cultures, anthropology, sociology, love, photography, kids, driving, chicken, Onam, temples, churches, catching fish (I have some tricks), hills, rivers, swimming and well, a zillion of other things. I am observant, moody, creative, lazy, loving, ill tempered at times, easy going and naive. Cancarian in general.
Once you do it, we can watch more amazing eyecandies like this.
Update: I got only two answers so far. But anyways, this is Abalos Undae dune field in Mars. The photo is taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera. You can watch rest of the beautiful photos here.
An array of Takahashi Refractors and Reflectors. Possibly an experimental setup at their factory in Japan.
Disclaimer: This post may offend some of the religiously inclined. I tried to walk close to the proven science in this entire article. But consider them as assorted ideas or perspectives if it is disturbing.
Where did we come from? How did the universe come into existence? Is there a God? Well, these are some of the unpleasant questions being asked over centuries. The lack of convincing answers gave birth to bizarre theories. But wait! Have a fresh thinking: Consider yourself as the leader of an ancient community. If people ask you about the origins of universe, distant stars, moon, what can you answer? Your answers should be credible since you are the master. You need to, ultimately, rely on a supreme intelligence to explain the unexplainable. Thus, most of these questions will get a single answer in God. Next, you need to make them god-fearing to reinforce this belief. Man's one of the biological goals in life is to give birth to children and continue to exchange and diversify genes. But how did that goal get set? Did the creator put that in place? How did that intelligence evolve? Theories of evolution says that these are acquired over time through Natural Selection. But nothing is created overnight. Rather, biological and genetic features are perfected over a period of time. This is applicable to celestial objects too. From dust, galaxies were created. Planets achieved an equilibrium by constantly revolving around their suns. Many scientists now believe that Life is a natural planetary phenomenon. Means if earth like conditions are there, many planets may eventually originate life. This is one of the reasons why we are desperately trying to find planets under habitable zone of other star systems. As you see, Time made everything possible. Even if time is a unique entity of it's own, we overlook it because we are so familiar with the concept. It took millions of years to get the Sun ignited, get the earth cool down. It rained for centuries without stopping. Atmosphere started to get filled with Oxygen and Nitrogen to welcome the spark of life. Consider time as a source of knowledge; a source of order of information. The knowledge increases over a period of time. It appears that the Time itself cannot preserve this information. Instead, Time stores them in Matter -- Mass. A simple example is your DNA. It is matter with negligible mass. But it contains information to recreate highly complex life. As an another simple example, compare your knowledge to that of 10 years earlier. Time is the common factor in all this 'knowledge' acquisition events. Without time being moved, nothing happens in this world. Can you think about 'the Time' as the sole creating force behind the universe? A creator who doesn't possess any intelligence of it's own, but induces into matter. Time started when all celestial events started and would end when everything end. This may sound indigestible. We have a shape for our god(s) and these ideas may not mach with those figures. And any change in our ideas about God will trigger panic. But it seems like, if at all we need to have a creator to explain the unexplainable, there is nobody else, yet. So is there an omnipotent, omnipresent creator? Consider Black Holes, the mysterious high density cosmic objects with very strong gravitational force.
Black holes gulp in all nearby matter, electromagnetic waves including light. Consider a fictitious person A inside the black hole sending a tick signal every second to the outside world person B. Person B will never receive the signal. In scientific terms, the signal will take infinite seconds to reach B. That means A is infinite light years away from person B. These two people appear practically detached from each other because the 'time' inside the black hole is different from the 'time' outside. They are in two different worlds. That means there are several 'times' that exist in this world where there is no apparent connection between them. Interesting thing is Time doesn't have any meaning without the matter. Without matter there will not be any observable time for us to get hold of. Time is a creator who exists solely because of its creation.
Soya field in Amazon. It is illegal in Brazil to destroy Brazil nut trees so they are left standing when the forest is cleared.
