Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Invisble Truth


Note:Many of  you may not agree with me but this is what I believe.....

How do we define an inventor? Most of us will say an inventor is a person who produce or contrive which is something previously unknown by the use of ingenuity or imagination. We all know Edison is the inventor of electric bulb; Bell is the inventor of telephone and many more. But how is it possible that no one else in the world was thinking about inventing a device like lamp or telephone except Edison or Bell.

Most of us think that Galileo is the inventor of telescope which is actually not true. A man named Hans Lipperhey invented the telescope. As soon as Galileo heard about the wondrous device coming out of the Netherlands, he was excited. He started constructing a telescope himself and he made  great improvements in the technology and actually he was the first one to use it for astronomical purpose and therefore he is  known as the Father of the Practical use of the telescope and should not be refer as the Father of Telescope.

Prandtl , professor at University of Gottingen, Germany is consider as the founder of modern fluid dynamics. Euler was his PhD student. Now during that time according to Germany University rule, a student can't be a professor at the same University as result after finishing his degree Euler went to Austria. When the Second World War broke out Euler went to U.S. After the war was over it was decided that America will take all the finish products.As a result America took home all the research paper, their works, instruments .Now  the funny part,to know how much the German have developed in the field of fluid mechanics Euler was sent to interrogate Prandtl and he later took all the Prandtl's  work along with him ,simply changed the method and as a result published in numerous number of paper.

There are many people who thinks the Wright brother are the inventor of airplane.As a matter of fact there were many people who spent their whole life in building a  airplane even before Wright  brothers  thought of making an airplane. Langley was the first one to built aerodrome having a launching catapult on a house boat. Another great aeronautical engineer,  Otto Liental who designed and flew the first successful glider in the history. He died while testing his glider when  a temporary gust of wind brought his glider to a stall and finally it crashed to the ground. I firmly believe that had Lienthal lived, he would have beaten the Wright brothers to the punch. And how could we forget about the great visionary, Da Vinci  who first the one to believe that human being can make an object which will help them to fly. He was the first one to built an ornitropter.  We should understand that Rome was not built in one day. It is only after knowing the mistakes made by the people before them; they were successful in making one.

Many of us live in the wrong impression that Einstein became famous all by himself actually it was Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington,a British  astrophysicist who made Einstein  famous. He is the one, who is responsible for bringing Einstein into the lime light. Eddington wrote a number of articles which announced and explained Einstein's theory of relativity .He was the one who dare to challenge Newton's theory, he conducted an expedition to observe the Solar eclipse that provided one of the earliest confirmations of relativity, and he became known for his popular expositions and interpretations of the theory which in turn made Einstein famous .But sadly enough most of the people don't know this.

When Newton was the head of the Royal Society of Science, he used to edit and modify all the papers written by other researchers and as a consequence his name was added in those papers, in this way he had published many paper in his name.

There are in numerable example of such type of cases which are mentioned above. There are many people who don't get proper recognition just because in science we only cheer and applause for those who can first publish their research .It is like a rat race and the scientific paper are like treasures; everyone is trying to grab it first while forgetting the essence of science.


Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Beautiful Canvas.

Whenever I look at the beautiful vault of heaven this song comes to my mind,  "Ye taara woh taara har taara , dekho jisse bhi lage pyaara ".This day human being makes himself so much busy that they don't get time to look and admire the charm of the wild dark yonder.
To most people stars are nothing more than a shining object and the sky just a lid but to me,the sky is a beautiful canvas,where together a group of stars  helps to draw a picture in the sky, assuming one using  some poetic license.Swami Vivekanand once said,believe what you  see,but some of the stars which are familiar to us from their place in asterisms may not exist any more, but it may take millions of years for us to find out, since the light from the star is traveling across such an incredible distance another interesting fact is even though all stars seem to stay in the same place they are moving through space, they are so far away that  the pictures we see always stay at the same place.
It was during the bronze age when most of the constellation we know are established .There are many constellations with which we are familiar came from ancient Greece.Therefore if we look at name of the constellation they have Greek  name .If we look in the newspaper to know  about our zodiac,most of the words we see are greek  words like Leo which means lion,Cancer means crab,Pisces means fish and  many more. It is believe that many societies saw patterns among the stars with deities or stories from their culture. There are also many civilizations who created their own patterns in the sky based on stories and soul that were important to them.


Most of us must have seen the picture of  Big Dipper,this is the third largest constellation in the sky it is also useful one as it is use as a guiding tool for finding other constellations.Using this Big Dipper,we can easily draw the constellations which will look like Little Bear and the Arcturus of Bootes the Herdsman,which looks like a man with a bow,we can easily draw this  on a clear  sky.Using Bootes the Herdsman we can draw a crown,this one is better known as Northern Crown or  sometimes as Corona Borealis .These are the figures anyone can draw just by joining the stars in a proper manner.People living in the southern hemisphere are really  lucky as they can draw picture without the little twinkle.They portray  with the help of  the patches or the band of light from the Milky way.It is better known as the  "dark cloud constellations".As a matter of fact,we can draw any figure the only thing we require is IMAGINATION and TIME.If  we want we can draw any animals or any geometric figure on the sky.As a matter of fact there are constellation whose shape looks like fish,lion,peacock,horse,unicorn,telescope.The shapes I mentioned above are not the only shape we can see actually it depends on our point of view.
I don't understand ,why you are still sitting in front of the"dabba" ,what are you thiniking?go out and draw a magnificent sketch on the beautiful canvas.