I am a man! I rule ...

The Indian culture usually treats man as superior to woman. If we go to some interior villages, they consider women as they are born to serve men. It is even said that the voice of the woman should not be heard beyond the kitchen. Men wont allow them to go out and earn for the family, since they feel that they will lose their dominating position.

Now a days, in most urban and semi-urban areas and in some villages too, the situations have changed. Women are given almost equal priority as men. They have proved themselves to be capable. God has created men and women with different physique. Men are usually stronger. Women even have other physical problems like during their periods. So there is definitely some limitations that God has given to a woman. If we look at nature, we can see some of this male dominance. Most mammals have the male leading a group. All these happen naturally.

So all we have to do is to accept and respect each other. Give each other equal rights, share the responsibilities and everything should be governed by love. So it is not the man or woman who should rule, it should be their love.

Does God exist?

Most people should have thought of this in some part of their life, unless they blindly believe in anything. The family and the environment where a child is born determines how he is supposed to believe in God. In most of the cases, a person is classified into a specific religion by birth itself. And every religion has its own perception towards the Almighty. There are many people who do fall into any of these religions but say that there is no God.

Why do we believe in God? All the 5 senses for a human being (a computer geek can call it as 5 input devices ;) ) cant be used to confirm His existence. Nobody knows how He looks like or sounds like. Or is He a supernatural force which exists but cant be felt. We say God is the creator. If we think like nothing comes from nothing, then there should be a creator. And that is God. I can call Him the perfect designer, who created the entire universe with the smallest thing on the planet earth designed with ultimate perfection. We see that the nature balances itself. All living beings have their instinct to find their prey, they reproduce, they die everything contributes for an ecological balance. As a human, we can think of all these as 'well planned and executed'. We believe God is immortal. But everything in the world/universe has its end, so is it true that the creator is still the one who takes care of everything. (Soon after I typed this sentence, I got a small electric shock from my laptop's adapter which is properly insulated, this time I'm not joking). And why has He created such a balanced nature? I am not even 0.0001 % eligible to think about it.

Is God a single entity, or a group of entities? From human experiences it could be both. I am a Hindu, and the Hindu religion says there is only one God. Even Christianity, Islam etc says that there is only one God. In Hindu Mythologies they say about different Gods who have their responsibilities, and that is an interesting way of thinking about it too.

I do believe in God. But I believe that, I need not go to a temple to feel His presence. I can feel God in my parents, my beloved ones, my teachers. I can feel God in the food I eat, the air I breath, the place where I live. And to be honest, I can feel God in myself too.

Invisibility !!!

Invisibility!!! Isnt that a strange feeling? I have seen magicians making things invisible in front of huge audience. Still I dont know how they do that. But anyways, its really terrific to feel that something's there before us which is invisible. When I was small, I used to think how cool it would be if I could become invisible according to my wish. When I play Quake 3 Arena, I can get the 'Invisibility' power, after which I can shoot my enemies without letting them know where I am :) . So, thats really amazing; but very less practical in our real life.

I believe invisibilty would be just fooling a human eye in practice. I have seen a video (forwarded through e-mail by some of my friend), in which a Japanese guy wears a coat which makes his body invisible. The idea behind the 'Invisibility coat' was keeping realtime camera's and displaying video in the coat to cover 180 degrees from both sides. It continuously captures video from the one side, and displays on the other side. Hence the thickness of the object to be made invisible doesnt matter here.

Now, I was thinking it in another way. We see objects because, light falls on it and the way it reflects. Another thing is that visible light does not penetrate through opaque objects. Penetration of visible light makes it 'Transparent', if 100% transparent then 'invisible'. But there are others in the electromagnetic spectrum, like Infrared, radio waves etc which we use widely and has the power of 'penetrating' through opaque objects. In other means most of the objects in the world are not 'opaque' with respect to these electromagnetic waves. If there can be some easy way of converting visible light to say IR, and converting back to visible light without any loss/degradation, we can easily make things invisible. Again, I am not sure of the practical issues in doing this. This is just another thought.

Digital Storage

I always admire the advancements in the information technology, which went so wide and in such great pace. When I was studying about the digital technology (some 6-7 years before), I used to wonder how this 0 -1 combination could work out such wonders.

Those times (even now), the storage media was advancing highly. The size was going smaller, while the capacity was going higher and higher. The Compact Disc (CD) uses optical technology, by burning 'pits' into the disk while writing and using a laser diode to illuminate and read. This can easily represent the 0-1 combinations of the digital world. We can see different kinds of handy portable digital media in the market including CDs, DVDs, USB devices, etc.

Now we have another contradictory thing that is the analog one. We have started with the analog things (including storage devices) and ended up with digital solutions. But what we see in the real world is actually analog. We cant imagine a digital world in our real life where everything is either true or false, set or reset, etc. What I think, is the analog technology can much stronger/faster than the digital one. But designing an analog system might be more complicated.

When I was studying about Compact Disk, I was curious of another fact. We store bits by burning the disk. And in the application part, we never read it as individual bits. We read it atleast as bytes. Hence, why cant we store them as bytes itself. Instead of 'dark pits' we can use colors on the disk. The CD writer will write small tint of colors into the disk. The optical reader should recognize the colors and read it out. This would improve the speed and increase the storage space even more; if the size is kept constant.

Time has passed, but still I dont see a similar kind of storage, in the market. In my example of using colors, we can have 256 colors or millions of color combinations written which will multiply the number of bits represented in a single tint of color. But that may result in slower app performance, although the storage size can be reduced highly.

Is this an analog solution? I am not sure. But still I think storing as bytes would be a better way in a storage media. But we see the serial busses are getting more popular than parallel ones. Also 'The simpler, the more popular" is working out in most scenarios. So I dunno how much my thinking is relevant to the present scenario.