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Celestial Hawking Palash Biswas Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551 Email: palashchandrabiswas@gmail.com “Our Species Must Move to a New Planet," says Stephen Hawking Thus, the most brilliant scientist of our time fixes our next destination into another planet. Hawking is too celestial to be compared with either Einstein or Noam chomsky! We may not know what he thinks about the Global government run from Washington DC. Rather he is quite silent on infinite enslavement going on and the post modern Manusmriti. It would have been a very interesting topic to have hawking speaking on Untouchability along with Big Bang and Quantom! His call is very relevant for the elite Worldwide ruling classes! The British physicist takes a flight that gives the renowned scientist, who is confined to a wheelchair, a taste of the weightlessness of space, reports Vijay Dutt. Associated Press Flight gives Hawking a taste of space Ice shrinks, birds migrate early in warmer Arctic HOUSTON - The Expedition 15 crew aboard the International Space Station completed its first week of station orientation as the crew worked with experiments and hardware maintenance. Firing and bomb throwing continues at Nandigram Clashes between the ruling party and Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) had occurred at Bhangaberia area on Friday. Nandigram has been in spotlight in view of resistance against West Bengal government"s move to acquire agriculture land for setting up industries. Meanwhile, local CPI MLA Ilias Mohammed, who was allegedly assaulted by Trinamool Congress supporters on Friday, led a rally and held a public meeting on Saturday to protest against it. The MLA alleged Trinamool supporters brandished a gun and snatched away his mobile phone, Rs 500 in cash and a packet of cigarettes. He has lodged an FIR on the incident. New Delhi, Apr 27: A remark by Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha Member Dinesh Trivedi over the West Bengal Government"s handling of Nandigram and Singur issues led to protest from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MPs in the Upper House today. While getting a reply to a supplementary question on the adverse impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) during the question hour, Trivedi said “a day is going to come when farmers will revolt". When asked about the incident, Trivedi told ANI: “During a reply (given by a Minister) to a question on the reduction of cultivatable land, I said the farmers would take definitely take revenge." “Today they are committing suicide, tomorrow they would come ahead to kill you," he added. He said that the Centre have data of decrease in agrarian land up to the year 2005. He added that the government says that it is a subject of the State list while on the other hand the Centre itself passes the SEZs. Revolutionary Socialist Party Rajya Sabha Member Aboni Roy said: “The CPI-M members protested against the statement made by Trivedi but all left parties did not join them in their protest." Earlier in the day, while intervening in the verbal fight between them, Rajya Sabha Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat asked CPI-M MPs not to react to Trivedi"s remarks. “Don"t get irritated, otherwise Nandigram will be a problem for you", Shekhawat told them in vain. A division bench comprising Justice P C Ghose and Justice B Somadder said that the high court had received a letter from the apex court seeking copies of the documents of all the 11 petitions and as such it would not be able to take up the matter at present. However, until any order from the Supreme Court was received with regard to the Nandigram cases, the matter would not be formally adjourned, the bench said on a query by senior counsel Kalyan Banerjee who is representing one of the petitioners. India decides to set up space science institute! ‘We have been here since yesterday and held discussions with government officials and would meet Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan before we return to Italy on Tuesday," Roney Simon, director of FICCI (Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry)"s Italy office, told reporters here Saturday. “As they take it for a test drive, our customers and partners will find that we ve made some vast improvements in Windows Longhorn, which will help them reduce costs and adapt to changing business needs," said Pallavi Kathuria, director server business group, Microsoft. IT professionals face increasing pressure from rapidly changing technology, security concerns, increasing costs and expanding business needs. Windows Server Longhorn builds on the reliability and security of Windows Server 2003 R2 to help alleviate these pressures by addressing the automation of daily management tasks, tightening security-improving availability. India, an acknowledged power in space science, will launch from the next academic year an Indian Institute of Space Science " Technology (IIST) with an initial investment of Rs.2.70 billion ($66.5 million) to address the manpower shortage faced by the national space agency. The union cabinet Thursday gave its approval for the setting up of IIST that will have an annual recurring cost of Rs.400 million, Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi told reporters. The boldness of Senate Democrats has only seemed to swell as the war debate has worn on. Yesterday, they said they remained committed to carrying out what they believed to be the will of the American people to change direction in Iraq. But, like Mr. Bush, they also indicated a readiness to negotiate. Hawking Flight Follow-Up The “zero gravity" is obtained by using a retrofitted jet that flies in large, fast parabolas. At the top of the parabola, the passengers experience effectively weightless behavior since the ground is falling down fast enough that their free-fall makes them essentially hover in the air. How can the human race survive the next hundred years? At least that is the view of a group of prominent scientists from Europe and North America who, in January 2007, turned forward the hands of time on the Doomsday Clock. These scientists believe that such factors as impending climate change, globalization and a revival of nuclear ambitions by smaller nations such as North Korea and Iran will create the conditions for a second unleashing of nuclear weaponry. Changing the clock is not a step the scientists take lightly. The clock was developed in 1947 by former Manhattan Project scientists who sided against nuclear weapons after creating the world"s first atomic bomb. The prophetic clock premiered during the Cold War to measure how close humankind was to self-destruction via nuclear weapons. When it was established, scientists set the clock at seven minutes to midnight, with 12 a.m. representing the nuclear obliteration of the human race. It has now been set at two minutes closer to the end. Posted by Rich on February 3, 2006 01:07 PM Ancient wisdom, NAP and Science. Many of us seem to know what is wrong with our world today but to have a plan to change things is a little more difficult. Maybe we can all agree that education must be part of the solution. It doesn’t seem very logical to learn and know so much about ancient wisdoms and NAP (New Age Paradigm) and not give equal time to today’s accumulated scientific knowledge. Some top scientists have realized they know so much and the general public so little and that is an unhealthy thing. It is a breeding ground for fanatics and fundamentalists or as Deepak says, “it makes you believe in fantasies instead of reality”. Too many of us think we won’t understand when the scientists speak, we much rather listen to a pastor, priest or some other religious guru who after all give us the “real truth”. But many of the great brains of today have written and explained their discoveries in a language that most of us will understand. When Stephen Hawking gives us “A briefer History about time” we understand, when Richard Dawkins is “Unweaving the Rainbow” we get it and when Richard Feynman explains that “a photon always goes where time is least and gravity is most” a light will go on in many heads. But the king of making science wonderful and thrilling is the late Carl Sagan. His enthusiasm is contagious and his books full of wonderful wondering and mind expanding observation! Einstein once said, “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." If we would teach our children more science and less religious nonsense, we would take a giant leap toward a better world! These remarks should not be the source of an argument about who is right and who is wrong but hopefully a source for an honest desire to find the truth, to educate and find common ground. “I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.” http://www.newcollege.unsw.edu.au/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/NCLs04_hawk.pdf "Where do we come from? How did the universe begin? Why is the universe the way it is? How will it end? “All my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist. The questions are clear, and deceptively simple. But the answers have always seemed well beyond our reach. Until now. “The ideas which had grown over two thousand years of observation have had to be radically revised. In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. And our galaxy itself is just one of billions of galaxies, in a universe that is infinite and expanding. But this is far from the end of a long history of inquiry. Huge questions remain to be answered, before we can hope to have a complete picture of the universe we live in. “I want you to share my excitement at the discoveries, past and present, which have revolutionized the way we think. From the Big Bang to black holes, from dark matter to a possible Big Crunch, our image of the universe today is full of strange sounding ideas, and remarkable truths. The story of how we arrived at this picture is the story of learning to understand what we see." –STEPHEN HAWKING Stephen Hawking author"s web site view author"s other articles Join this author"s mailing list Your Name: E-mail Address: S. Aravindan Neelakandan When the discoveries of sciences disturb the theses that form an integral part of their power structures, such closed ideological systems that form the bedrock of power structures, react with ruthless violence which commences passively in suppression which goes on to attain orgasmic peak in inquisitions. The behavior of Marxist state towards the scientists, (whose disciplines Marxist theoreticians came to regard as heresies against Marxism), has been tone of he most vividly documented yet not very well discussed inquisition that happened in the modern era. Usually the apologists belonging to different Marxist Parties all over the world tend to explain the Marxist inquisition as the result of Stalinism, which according to them is a deviation from the Marxist Leninist course of scientific socialism. Particularly Marxist apologists of Trotsky school market this line of explanation. However at the extreme end of the spectrum there still exist many Marxist groups that firmly believe Marxist inquisition itself to be a capitalist/imperialist propaganda myth. This is particularly true in many parts of the developing countries where questioning the "scientific nature" of Stalinism can be as dangerous as apostasy in Islamic countries. The purpose of this article is to show how Marxism in its very theoretical structure contains an exclusive and closed approach to studying the universe, an approach, which it shares with the dogmatic mindset attributed to medieval church. This approach when integrated itself with the state power naturally evolves into an inquisition. Ideological prelude: Karl Marx himself proclaimed that “Natural sciences will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science, there will be one science."2 The "science of man" Marx talks about is of course Marxism. A rule has thus been set here that would dictate how the natural sciences should travel so that they can ‘incorporate into themselves" Marxism, ‘the science of man’. This in itself is not much different from the medieval church stand on natural sciences wherein the goal of natural sciences is to show by studying the physical universe the glory of its Creator. In Marxism the Creator is replaced by equally unscientific and mystical historical dialectics. The paradigm shift in physics that happened with the evolution of Quantum Mechanics is of more fundamental nature than that of Copernican revolution that happened centuries ago. Science historian Helge Kragh says, “The new physics that arose in the early years of the twentieth century was not a revolt against a petrified Newtonian worldview, something analogous to the revolt of Galileo against Aristotelianism. By 1905, the mechanical worldview had been under attack for more than a decade, and for this reason alone, there never was much of a clash between Einstein and Newton." 3 But that was in the fast secularizing western world where the reigning powers had no vested interest in the Newtonian worldview, as say, the medieval church had in the geocentric worldview. Not so for the theoreticians of Marxism then and for the Marxist state that would subsequently become a reality in 1917. Marxist State had a strong vested interest in the Newtonian worldview and the way they reacted to some of the paradigm shifts in modern science matches exactly the way medieval church reacted to the Galilean revolution. This would also explain why V.I.Lenin the chief exponent of Marxist revelation took such an active interest in the developments of natural sciences, carefully monitoring their impacts on his Marxist dogma. Lenin viewed with contempt the paradigm shift that was happening then in physics. In fact, he gives his ‘valued" opinion on those scientists and philosophers of science like Bogdanov, Wilhelm Ostwald, Poincaré, Le Rey and Berman. While philosopher of science, Berman is “absurd", physicist Poincaré is “full of fancy", and Duhem"s Theory of Physics contains “falsity". Perhaps physicists world over consider the period of the exposition of theory of relativity and the analysis of paradoxes that lead to the development of Quantum physics as a period of great renaissance but for Lenin this period is one of, “a temporary deflection, a transitory period of sickness in the history of science, an ailment of growth." More importantly, Lenin gave specific instructions as to in which direction science should progress. He says, “…One school of natural scientists in one branch of natural science has slid into a reactionary philosophy, being unable to rise directly and at once from metaphysical materialism to dialectical materialism. This step is being made, and will be made, by modern physics; but it is making for the only true method and the only true philosophy of natural science not directly, but by zigzags, not consciously but instinctively, not clearly perceiving its ‘final goal", but drawing closer to it gropingly, hesitatingly, and sometimes even with its back turned to it." 4 (Italics added) Fortunately for Lenin, he did not live to see the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics but unfortunately for Soviet physicists and biologists the Party and its theoreticians did see the flowering of Quantum Mechanics and Neo Darwinism. And thus started an ordeal, which packed in decades, the horrors of centuries long medieval inquisition. The Purges: Lenin already made it clear that intellectuals who stood in the way of the implementation of the Marxist theory would be killed mercilessly whoever they might be. When Maxim Gorky complained of persecution of the intellectuals, Lenin wrote back to him wryly, “Really and truly you will die if you don"t break away from this situation with the bourgeois intelligentsia." 5 The so-cal |
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