These days:
What anger consumes Mother Earth?
Sometimes she shivers in Richter Scale,
Sometimes she spews unholy ash,
Sometimes she calls
The big birds to crash.
Sometimes she makes
The Titanics to dash.
What anger consumes Mother Earth?
These days:
What anger consumes Mother Earth?
Sometimes she shivers in Richter Scale,
Sometimes she spews unholy ash,
Sometimes she calls
The big birds to crash.
Sometimes she makes
The Titanics to dash.
What anger consumes Mother Earth?
Answer to Walking Track Quiz: https://hunterfiftyfour.blogspot.com/2025/11/walking-track-quiz.html
I measure my own lap time Tlap — the time I take to
go once around the 1 km track.
I keep a record of the time t between
two consecutive meetings with the other walker
The rule:
If t<1/2 Tlap → I am slower
If t>1/2 Tlap → I am faster.
If t=1/2 Tlap → same speed.
Intuitively:
Between two successive meetings I always walk the same
distance along the track. Call that distance ‘d’.
Now, this ‘d’ distance has contribution in terms of metres
covered both by me and the other walker. If my contribution to ‘d’ is less than
half the total loop – in this case 0.5 km – I am going slower. If mine and the
other walker have equal contribution, we are going at same speed. If my
contribution to ‘d’ is more, then I’m faster.
Translate this to time:
If ‘t’, the time between two consecutive meetings, is greater
than half my lap time, then I’m slower than the other walker. If half my
lap time is equal to ‘t’, then our speeds are equal. Else, my speed is more than
the other walker’s speed.
We have a closed loop walking track of 1 km in our neighbourhood. Some walkers go clockwise, some anticlockwise. If I'm one of the walkers who is going clockwise, and I keep meeting another walker who is walking anticlockwise at different spots in the closed loop track, as I and the other walker circle the track, how do I know which walker is going fast/slow? Of course, if both of us meet at the same spot, I know that both of us are doing the same speed.
Assumptions: 1. Both walkers maintain constant speed. 2. I have a phone that can give me my lap time. I can also find the time between successive meetings on the track with the help of the same phone. (Hint?) No other aid is available.
No formal proof is required. Only intuitive answer with justification will do.
Post Script: All of the above is actual. Not a hypothetical question. We need to remember that both walkers may not begin at the same time from the starting point. Indeed that would be the norm, rather than the exception. For example, I may meet the other walker just after I start my clockwise traverse.
The days of रुकावट के लिए खेद है,
The days of black and white,
The days when Left was left,
The days when Right was right.
The days of Chitrahaar,
The days of power cut बारम बार,
Those days of natural stupidity,
Indeed, much better by far.
Did you
know that The Puppeteer that is holding the end of the string that holds the world is at a point that is 4.6 × 1027 metres (or, 490
billion light years) away?
Now, this
is 10.5 times the radius of the observable universe (that is. far larger
than the universe we can see). That’s how far heaven is located. Perhaps, that is the
reason we never see the Puppeteer(being outside the observable universe).
How did I arrive at this figure?
I asked OpenAI this: The yugs are more like a pendulum than
a circle, right? If we add all the yugs' days and make a pendulum (with the bob as
the earth) with 'g' at 9.81m/sec2, what would be the length of the
string from where the bob is hanging? Which yuga / which year would be at the
bottom most in the pendulum swing?
OpenAI calculated thus:
Nice idea — fun to make myth + mechanics meet. I’ll make one
clear assumption (and then do the arithmetic):
Assumption I use: the “total of all the yugs” = one Mahayuga
= Satya (Kṛta) + Tretā + Dvāpara + Kali = 4,320,000 years (traditional
Hindu scheme: 1,728,000 + 1,296,000 + 864,000 + 432,000).
I map the entire Mahayuga to one full period T of a simple pendulum with
acceleration g = 9.81 m/sec2.
A simple pendulum period:
T = 2π(√L/g)
L = g(T/2π)2
Convert the Mahayuga to seconds: T=4,320,000 yr×(days/yr)×24×3600
Result:
Using 365 days / year
T ≈ 1.36236×1014 seconds
L ≈ 4.61×1027 metres
To make those numbers easier to picture:
That is how far heaven is
located.
Which yuga / which year is the bottom-most point of the
swing?
If you start the pendulum at one extreme at t=0 (start of
the Mahayuga) then the pendulum is vertical (bottom-most) after T/4.
T/4 corresponds to one quarter of the Mahayuga in time:
4,320,000/4=1,080,000 years
So the bottom-most point occurs 1,080,000 years into the
Mahayuga. Since Satya/Kṛta lasts 1,728,000 years, that 1,080,000-th year falls inside
Satya/Kṛta — roughly a bit past the middle of Satya, well before Treta begins.
Just think about it, friends: Kaliyug will go in a jiffy…whoosh!
But beware! We have to traverse it twice before we go into Dwapar yug: one on
the upswing, one on the downswing.
Dance, and it will rain,
Sing, and the stone will melt,
Call, and she'll return,
Bend the reality again,
And again.
आज हमारा नाइन इलेवन दिवस है। आज के दिन, एक सौ पचास साल पहले, बंकिमजी ने अंग्रेज़ों को भारत से नौ दो ग्यारह (9/11)होने का आह्वान किया था!
वन्दे मातरम्!