Coupling constants

My lonesome life is without interactions

Without any sorrow and devoid of loss

I alone prescribe by action

And which paths I criss and cross

And still I yearn for a coupling

Whose alterations are non perturbative 

These goals and dreams require renormalizing 

Without you this life is a self involved superlative

And so I must retune my constants

Look for a new kind of coupling

My ideas were so nascent

So superficial was my understanding

A half life

I go about my day, my month, my year

"it will get easier, in time...just wait" 

But the further I get away from her

The clearer it is to me that half a life awaits

These memories, they never fade

Those hopes, they never died

Half of me appears to stagnate

The other half lives to subside

I have no resolution of this strife

There is no heart to mend

Perhaps all that is left is a half life

A decay towards the end

One of the men I admire the most...and this might be his best commercial

Commercial

A brilliant movie

Especially for fans of fast and fierce bowling (trailer)

Good talk

Carlos and I took a trip to the Andes

The most beautiful experiment in biology

The Meselson-Stahl experiment - A series of two amazingly beautiful experiments gave unequivocal support for the semi-conservative replication of DNA.

But it doesn't compare the importance of the Hershey-Chase experiment that finally concluded that DNA, and not proteins, were the carriers of genetic material.

The burden of the Navier Stokes equations

Boris Shraiman, the scientist who made the most important contribution to the field of turbulence in the last 20 years, made an interesting comment to me recently. The study of turbulence is hampered by the knowledge, and blind reverence, of the Navier Stokes equations. Instead of studying the phenomena of turbulence as any other problem of physics, where simple models attempt to capture some set of observed phenomena, the field is obsessed with the governing equations of fluid mechanics. Clearly this is an avenue of research that ought to have been pursued, but after almost a century of this pursuit it is time for new ideas.

I hope to work on turbulence when I grow up. Maybe I can make a name for myself.

Onto Washington

Documentary - I learnt a lot from this documentary. I had little idea of how great this guy was, or atleast, how great people say he was.

Take-off

My first self-powered launch, and landing. Paragliding is pretty awesome! 

Dear Head...Dear Heart

Jefferson's letter to the woman he loved.

Thomas Jefferson

I decided that it was about time that I learnt about the history of the country I have lived in for the last 5 years. I am starting with a PBS documentary on Thomas Jefferson.

"The eternal mystery of the world is its (mathematical?) comprehensibility."

THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENSS OF MATHEMATICS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCE

Pythagoras and Bertrand Russell

I recently read the first section of Bertrand Russell's book: The history of Western Philosophy. In it I came across a marvelous "result" attributed to Pythagoras: Since the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle with unit sides is the an the square root of 2, the axiomatic basis of geometry cannot be arithmetic and must be something independent of it.

A wonderful PBS series - Art 21

Sally Mann

A wonderful photographer I just came across. Most certainly worth a look.