Tuesday, July 24, 2012
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Friday, July 13, 2012
How you can talk with God?
How you can talk with God?
It was late evening, I peeped through my window. The sky had turned scarlet . The birds had flown in to their nests. This hour was very special. I lit the evening lamp. The perfume of the insence sticks engulfed the house. The noisy day was somewhat quiet now. My evening prayes had commensed. After the prayers I loved to stay in this quiet mood. Years back, i recalled a lovely story I had read. It was about a rich woman she asks he Master(spiritual) that inspite of having all the comforts wealth a good loving husband, children house everything in life, she feels empty and something missing in her life. What& Why? To this the spiritual Master replies …"A part of our mind remains empty even if all the riches happiness of this world we get. We must fill this gap by prayers to Almighty. Daily this prayers has to be exercised." Further, he explained her how to practice meditation. The woman obeyed him. She sat on a sofa in her room closed her eyes and sat for meditation as instructed by the Master, daily..for considerable span. After some time she visited the spiritual Master and thanked him . She no more had that feeling of emptiness. Moreover , peace prevailed. The real meaning of Life had unfolded to her!
"This is how we talk with the Almighty",said the Master. "Daily giving few minutes of silent communion . In the beginning with a short praise , reciting his name etc few minutes of deep breathing then keeping silence in body and mind. This quietude leads us to peace and then his love starts pouring wisdom dawns, your heart is full of his grace which overflows in the form of tears at times." He explained.
The saints say you cry for the worldly things all your life have you wept for the Almighty , who has created you and this beautiful creation the Universe. Have we thanked him?
Once Swamy Vivekananda had asked Shri Ramakrishna, have you seen God ?
“Yes”, replied the Master,. “I see him just as I see you here, only in a much intenser sense.” "The magic touch of the Master that day immediately brought a wonderful change over my mind. I was astounded to find that really there was nothing in the universe but God! ... everything I saw appeared to be Brahman. ”...Swamy Vivekananda
Ask and it shall be given to you
Knock and it shall open to you
Seek and it shall be reaveled to you
Words of the Lord ringing in my ears…
One touch one glance of the Master changes the whole life…I pondered
I had sat in this mood for quite some time.
' For oft on my couch I lie,
In vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon my Inward Eye in the Bliss of Solitude'....William Wordsworth
Sunday, July 8, 2012
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
What is the Higgs boson and the Higgs field?
The Higgs field has been described as a kind of cosmic
"treacle" spread through the universe.
According to Prof Higgs's 1964 theory, the field interacts with
the tiny particles that make up atoms, and weighs them down so that they do not
simply whizz around space at the speed of light.
But in the half-century following the theory, produced
independently by the six scientists within a few months of each other, nobody
has been able to prove that the Higgs Field really exists.
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Prof Higgs predicted that the field would have a signature particle,
a massive boson.
What would the world be like without the Higgs boson?
According to the Standard Model theory, it would not be
recognisable. Without something to give mass to the basic building blocks of
matter, everything would behave as light does, floating freely and not
combining with other particles. Ordinary matter, as we know it, would not
exist.
How long has the search gone on?
Scientists have been looking for the Higgs since the 1960s, but
the search began in earnest more than 20 years ago with early experiments at
Cern in Europe and Fermilab in the US.
Does finding the Higgs boson mark the end of the search?
It's just the end of the beginning. Confirming the existence of
the Higgs would only be the start of a new era of particle physics as
scientists focus on understanding how it works and look for unexpected phenomena.
How do you find a Higgs boson?
To find the particle and characterise it, scientists must first
try to create it by smashing beams of protons together inside the Large Hadron
Collider at close to the speed of light and analysing the debris.
By doing so they will essentially be recreating a very small
model of the state of the Universe as it was in the first trillionth of a
second after the Big Bang.
Some of the fragments released by the collision should in theory
be Higgs Bosons, although they will instantly deteriorate into even smaller,
more stable subatomic particles.
Like other heavy particles, the Higgs decays into lighter
particles, which then decay into even lighter ones. The process can follow a
certain number of paths, which depend on the particle's mass.
Physicists compare the decay paths they observe after a particle
collision to predicted decay paths simulated with computers. When a match is
found, it suggests that the observed particle is the one being searched for.
How is the Higgs boson related to the Big Bang?
About 13.7 billion years ago, the Big Bang gave birth to the
universe and caused an outburst of massless particles and radiation energy.
Scientists think that fractions of a second later, part of the radiation energy
congealed into the Higgs field.
When the universe began to cool, particles acquired mass from
the Higgs field, slowed down and began to bunch up to form composite particles
and, eventually, atoms.
Conditions present a billionth of a second after the Big Bang
are recreated in the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator near Geneva.
How did the Higgs boson get the nickname "the God
particle"?
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Nobel laureate physicist from Fermilab called Leon Lederman wrote a book in the
early 1990s about the search for the Higgs boson. His publishers coined the
name as a marketable title for the book, but it's disliked by many scientists.
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