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by Vayutuvan
07 Nov 2023 06:31
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Education System
Replies: 3954
Views: 707198

Re: Indian Education System

Swaroop Sampath is a well known actress. I really liked her in Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi. She is also ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaroop_Sampat Early life Swaroop obtained a PhD. in Education[3] from the University of Worcester .[4] She did her doctoral thesis on using drama to enhance life skills i...
by Vayutuvan
04 Nov 2023 03:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 773197

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

Long term overworking is not sustainable for most people psychologically or physically. The impact it has on personal life, relationships, family, children, society etc is impossible to measure or compensate for. I like this interview of MohAndas Pai and Chetan Bhagat on India Today QIFJxjkg1Wc M. ...
by Vayutuvan
04 Nov 2023 02:39
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
Replies: 1352
Views: 542985

Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions

As per the wikipedia pages, Hall Effect thrusters were flight proven by Russians.
by Vayutuvan
03 Nov 2023 01:18
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
Replies: 1352
Views: 542985

Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions

@Amber G. ji Why does the slide say "Nuclear propulsion"? RHU and RTG are used only to keep the electronics warm and run the electronic equipment respectively. Isn't "nuclear propulsion" something like ion engine or something like that? Here are link to some Wikipedia pages which...
by Vayutuvan
28 Oct 2023 19:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

UN General Assembly adopts Gaza resolution calling for immediate and sustained ‘humanitarian truce’ Have to say that I'm not convinced of the wisdom of a ground invasion when hostages are in play. Unless there has been a foregone conclusion that the odds of securing a rescue of the hostages is low....
by Vayutuvan
27 Oct 2023 05:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7441
Views: 1625722

Re: Understanding the US - Again

bala wrote: 26 Oct 2023 23:56 +1. I would add that if Vivek is inducted into Trump admin that would also pave the way for Vivek in 2029.
If Trump wins that is. So many ifs and buts.
by Vayutuvan
26 Oct 2023 06:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Why We Need Pokhran-3
Replies: 113
Views: 25566

Re: Why We Need Pokhran-3

@titash ji, Does India have such a policy publicly stated? We do have NFU. We also have a policy (not publicly stated but hinted at) that if Pakistan uses nukes on India, we will hit China as they, the Chinese, gifted Paxis the nukes and the delivery platforms, i.e. missiles. OTOH, Paxis might use F...
by Vayutuvan
20 Oct 2023 04:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Meanwhile .. Huntsman's letter/action seem to have some effect..: ... The Wexner Foundation announces that it is cutting ties with Harvard ... (Hope more take such action) UPenn has $21 Billion endowment where as Harvard has $40+ billion dollar endowment funds. It hardly matters to these universiti...
by Vayutuvan
13 Oct 2023 10:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 773197

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

Tanaji wrote: 13 Oct 2023 01:17 Why is Prashant Kishore so quiet and completely absent from news these days? Something must be cooking..
PK is a chillar fellow in the larger scheme, Tanaji bhau.
by Vayutuvan
13 Oct 2023 10:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Breaking News (Many News sources): Israel's military informed the United Nations that the 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza should relocate to the enclave's south within the next 24 hours, a UN spokesman said, in what Palestinians fear could be a precursor to an Israeli ground offensive This is ridi...
by Vayutuvan
13 Oct 2023 04:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Amber G. wrote: 12 Oct 2023 22:51 ... It is important to all parents .. to inspire their kids to study .and do anything they can to enter top institutions,
Amber G. ji, that is too broad and also very elitist, IMHO. I wouldn;t give so much importance to "top" institution as per some QS or US News list or other.
by Vayutuvan
12 Oct 2023 11:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

IndraD wrote: 10 Oct 2023 16:20 Excellent step by Mudi when he has been awarded highest honour by Palestine, not easy.
Palestine is not hamas.
by Vayutuvan
12 Oct 2023 11:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

It is the perception of paper tiger that matters. It is the one up man ship in blood that, as a perceptive Canadian woman said, is the culture. It is as distressing for Israel as was Mumbai 2008 for India. Fewer than 200 killed in Bombay but the statement was made and India humiliated. Hakim Saab, ...
by Vayutuvan
12 Oct 2023 05:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

As a FYI, Islam does not allow Muslims to "reverse migrate" (which is what SA accepting Muslim refugees would be). No SA is not accepting Muslim refugees. They are asking Egypt to accomodate them. Gaza City will still be nominally a Muslim city but an international whatever city. Muslim i...
by Vayutuvan
12 Oct 2023 05:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

IMEC was announced a few weeks ago, and even if Chinese had moles in G20 official circles they would have known this at most say 6 months ago. The operation is certainly something that has been planned for years given all the stockpiling of rockets, training of paragliders, tunnel excavation and ex...
by Vayutuvan
12 Oct 2023 03:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

^^^ the ultra-orthodox are exempted from military service. https://www.timesofisrael.com/cabinet-shields-haredi-youth-from-military-draft-5-days-before-exemption-law-expiry/ Those folks partying don't seem to be orthodox - ultra or whatever. Are Israelis allowed to own guns? Do they have something ...
by Vayutuvan
08 Oct 2023 06:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1583183

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Tanaji wrote: 08 Oct 2023 02:21 ... what effect this has on the Bhikari of East Europe and its war against Russia? Nothing good I think.
Tanaji ji, isn't that pakraine bikhari jewish? He should agree for a ceasefire with Russia so that Israel gets the sorely needed ammo.
by Vayutuvan
05 Oct 2023 22:38
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Know Your India
Replies: 602
Views: 214437

Re: Know Your India

Hyderabad estimation seems to off by a large margin.
by Vayutuvan
05 Oct 2023 22:36
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Physics Discussion Thread
Replies: 2917
Views: 3559861

Re: Physics Discussion Thread

Indeed. Matra is a measure of time.
by Vayutuvan
04 Oct 2023 05:46
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Physics Discussion Thread
Replies: 2917
Views: 3559861

Re: Physics Discussion Thread

sudarshan wrote: 04 Oct 2023 05:25
Vayutuvan wrote: 03 Oct 2023 22:58 ECG Sudarshan has a theory for quantized time.
Thanks, will look it up.
Let me link the Wikipedia page for the record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Zeno_effect
by Vayutuvan
04 Oct 2023 05:44
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Physics Discussion Thread
Replies: 2917
Views: 3559861

Re: Physics Discussion Thread

I didn't know this. EC George Sudarshan passed away in 2018. From Wikipedia, this.
Died 13 May 2018 (aged 86)[1]
Austin, Texas, United States
by Vayutuvan
03 Oct 2023 22:58
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Physics Discussion Thread
Replies: 2917
Views: 3559861

Re: Physics Discussion Thread

sudarshan wrote: 03 Oct 2023 21:41 I remember when femtosecond lasers used to be a big thing, now it's down to attoseconds. Light in vacuum would travel 0.3 nanometers in an attosecond.

Is there any kind of limit/ discretization to time resolution?
ECG Sudarshan has a theory for quantized time.
by Vayutuvan
03 Oct 2023 21:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 1858
Views: 406662

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

vimal wrote: 03 Oct 2023 09:14 Wow Canada has AAA rating from Moodys
They have a lot of stuff they can export to the US whose citizens consume like there is no tomorrow.
by Vayutuvan
03 Oct 2023 21:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 1858
Views: 406662

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

@A-Gupta, I did not know that ratings factored freedom and democracy too. So basically the entire system is rigged against non-western nations. @A_Gupta is correct. That said, forces inimical to Indian interests (no pun intended) will find some other excuse to downgrade India’s credit rating. Curre...
by Vayutuvan
03 Oct 2023 02:14
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707317

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Some people I know, who were very careful and remained covid free all these years & had all the vaccinations,& still wear masks in public places -- have come down with the virus..(Recently in a big meeting with Facebook CEO, where all the attendees were required to take a test before the me...
by Vayutuvan
03 Oct 2023 01:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 1858
Views: 406662

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

> I don;t understand this need for India being cleared by the West/Whites/Five Eyes or whetever......That is good for me. This is good enough for Indians and makes for great rhetoric. ... "Good enough for me" is "frog in the well" kind of framework of thinking. EAM declared Indi...
by Vayutuvan
02 Oct 2023 00:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 1858
Views: 406662

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

if Canada itself finds the culprits in the Hardeep Singh Nijjar murder. There is no way they will find the culprits. It is even possible that CSISI itself bumped him off. He may have become a liability. Otherwise why were they meeting Nijjar fellow three times a week (as per Nijjar's brat)?!!! Even...
by Vayutuvan
02 Oct 2023 00:26
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Physics Discussion Thread
Replies: 2917
Views: 3559861

Re: Physics Discussion Thread

Einstein was poor in math. It was Grossman who aided him in his math. Wikipedia page I quoted says "he learned about them from Grossman" "he learned them from Grossman" That said, i also know lots of folks who think that there are many more who are lot more important in Scinces ...
by Vayutuvan
02 Oct 2023 00:20
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Physics Discussion Thread
Replies: 2917
Views: 3559861

Re: Physics Discussion Thread

bala wrote: 01 Oct 2023 21:45 The error is not that great since it depends on the reference frame. The constant happens to be 1 for our universe.
Interesting. Lot of numerical simulations, especially in FEM, are modeled as "unitless" equations.
by Vayutuvan
02 Oct 2023 00:14
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Physics Discussion Thread
Replies: 2917
Views: 3559861

Re: Physics Discussion Thread

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor Tensor calculus was developed around 1890 by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro under the title absolute differential calculus, and originally presented by Ricci-Curbastro in 1892.[18] It was made accessible to many mathematicians by the publication of Ricci-Curbastro and...
by Vayutuvan
02 Oct 2023 00:05
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Physics Discussion Thread
Replies: 2917
Views: 3559861

Re: Physics Discussion Thread

sudarshan wrote: 01 Oct 2023 07:28 (...) Agree with all of that.

P.S.: Einstein did not get the Nobel prize for his theory of relativity. He got it for his work on the photoelectric effect.
I thought it is partly for his Brownian mition as well. Maybe I am misremebering.
by Vayutuvan
01 Oct 2023 21:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 1858
Views: 406662

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

There is the remote possibility that the Canadian police will find the culprits, and that will clear India. I don;t understand this need for India being cleared by the West/Whites/Five Eyes or whetever. Minister S. Jaishankar already stated Indian govt. position. India doesn't engage in assasinatio...
by Vayutuvan
01 Oct 2023 21:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 1858
Views: 406662

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

Shaktimaan wrote: 30 Sep 2023 13:07 Now if Jassi Truddo reveals the ELINT provided to him by Five Eyes it will be a grave breach of their trust and security.
Whether he has any (actionable intel that is) is the big question mark.
by Vayutuvan
01 Oct 2023 20:59
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
Replies: 6359
Views: 1308740

Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry

hanumadu wrote: 30 Sep 2023 17:27 Revenge for volleyball defeat in 5th, 6th playoff. We did great in volleyball too defeating South Korea and Taiwan before falling to a second rung Japan and then Pakistan.
Didn't we beat China in Table Tennis?
by Vayutuvan
01 Oct 2023 20:56
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Replies: 8412
Views: 2876298

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017

sanjaykumar wrote: 30 Sep 2023 09:04 Fireflies with photovoltaic cells
Forgot Hydropower.
by Vayutuvan
01 Oct 2023 20:36
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Replies: 8412
Views: 2876298

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017

It seems to be workable. CRISPR I might come in handy. Joking aside, photosynthesis was modified to produce H in place of O, iirc. How? H2 gets combined with CO2 to form glucose, in that process all of O2 isn't consumed, thus releasing O2 as waste product! Tell where this additional H2 comes from? ...
by Vayutuvan
30 Sep 2023 21:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1772
Views: 564035

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015

NRao wrote: 30 Sep 2023 02:53 Interesting presser

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A side note. Minister Jaishankar's Hindi is superb - very precise and eloquent. Jai ho.