Dockie

Okie.. well this is a very special message... Mehran.. sachi likhun toh there arent words enough to tell how great friend he has been in such little time. He listens to all my words though pretends not to and he does care... but yes its his special way of showing - by helping you out!!

I remember I had to drag him into Hogs.. and now he is the Head Boy.. the hogs thing makes me proud!

More than that.. he certainly is the kind of friend I think everyone needs to have.. he is the perfect friend material... outgoing.. wild.. musical.. studious.. funny... and the best part is he got no girlfriend and so he is always free for his friends!

In this very little time that we have been on facebook... Mehran has known me alot and same here... I love it when he teases me and trust me life seems dull and boring when he is away from net.. He teases me and stimulates others to do so too!! The perfect mischievous person!

And to him.. if I were to say.. I would just say.. keep making my life 'funnier' each day as it passes by.. I am so glad to have known you!! Be as you are - ALWAYS (I know I didnt need to tell this for you are in no mood to change!) ... keep Smiling.. Be Happy and Healthy and Safe!!

And yea.. try to know those giggling girls.. they arenot as irritating as you find them! Lolzz...

This is about him.. for the 'special message' label!

Now for people.. well trust me.. He is one of his kind.. I know people who are happy go lucky.. and others who can help you sort anything.. but no one who is both! He is a gem of a person.. just with little craziness for NOT LIKING ANY GIGGLING GIRL :P and MATHEMATICS :D :D

But honestly.. talking to him.. makes your day.. you forget your worries and see while I write I just feel - isnt he the perfect doctor thing?? :O The dockie who reads Twilight :D :D

And as far is the sci log part is there.. it is the biggest reason for the blog entry - Dockie.. trust me.. without you in my friend list lately.. I wouldnot have thought of science especially mathematics as much as I did.. so thank you for that! You always bring me things to work out and I love doing that... so thank you for the challenges and ofcourse all you have to tell which I dont know.. they just help me get better!!

And ofcourse.. sorry for stealing ur pic without telling u.. bt I had to do this... and mind u.. its takes too much to get into my blog.. you are LUCKY!

:: Perspective ::

Okie.. I know perspective is not a scientific topic of discussion but it is an important concept in science.. (as far as you ask me) and so here is something that I would like to share...

In an article I had read 'The mystery : Mona Lisa smiling or Not - revealed' they said that the Mona Lisa painting is such drawn that it appears smiling to some while not to others... however the criteria to whom it will appear smiling is right within one self.. the article said that we got certain cells within us that make us happy or upset... if we have plenty of those cells.. the Mona Lisa will appear smiling.. else sad...
Funny...


I sometimes feel that lately.. lots of such explainations have started coming up... which are truely vague in the scientific way but too easy to be true and understood by all.. such explainations just conclude that somethings were made by God to be just let that way and not understand.. fine if God created us superior to any other specie on this Earth.. doesnt mean we are to know everything that he did... sometimes.. we just need to leave it on him..

now the Mona Lisa thing.. I found it pretty true.. if I am angry or upset.. the Mona Lisa in my room darenot smile but if I am happy... she is smiling.. and sometimes I even see her eyes glitter!

So basically... its just the way you see to it that makes the different and people trust me - This statement IS scientific!!

Lightning..

Oh yea.. very much that white thing followed by noise when the sky is black and usually raining or raining later.. that lightning :P

"Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. In the atmospheric electrical discharge, a leader of a bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of 60,000 m/s (130,000 mph), and can reach temperatures approaching 30,000 °C (54,000 °F), hot enough to fuse silica sand into glass channels known as fulgurites which are normally hollow and can extend some distance into the ground.

There are some 16 million lightning storms in the world every year."

phew.. that was something I must say...

Usually when its raining... I feel the heaven's leaking :D I believe the heavens leak when some of its very dear souls on Earth are upset.. the heaven weeps out for them... vanishing their sorrows and giving them light just like the one that comes after rain...and lightning.. its Hades being chasen by Zeus for me!!
But not for everyone...

Not long back someone asks me a simple question - Do you know how many thunderstorms are required to keep the Earth's atmosphere neutral?

Well being a science student I knew the Earth's atmosphere had a tendency to break to ions and get charged in the process... it was obvious that it would get to neutral else we all would have been electrified :P but I never thought beyond what I knew...

"An average bolt of negative lightning carries an electric current of 30 kiloamperes (kA), and transfers a charge of five coulombs and 500 MJ of energy. Large bolts of lightning can carry up to 120 kA and 350 coulombs. The voltage is proportional to the length of the bolt.
An average bolt of positive lightning carries an electric current of 300 kA or about 10 times that of negative lightning."

Taking '16 million' as an average number of light storms per year.. I am sure the complicated answer to the above simple question can be estimated!

Sometimes I wonder... is science the complicated way of dealing with beauty? I mean take this only as the example.. an amazing light amidst clouds turns to ionization of air and leakage of charge from clouds!! My God... till date humans have not resolved the mystery that no matter how many ever times you call the plumber.. the tap leaks! but we are so determined to find why clouds leak? How stupid!

"According to the electrostatic induction hypothesis charges are driven apart by as-yet uncertain processes. Charge separation appears to require strong updrafts which carry water droplets upward, supercooling them to between -10 and -20 °C. These collide with ice crystals to form a soft ice-water mixture called graupel. The collisions result in a slight positive charge being transferred to ice crystals, and a slight negative charge to the graupel. Updrafts drive the less heavy ice crystals upwards, causing the cloud top to accumulate increasing positive charge. Gravity causes the heavier negatively charged graupel to fall toward the middle and lower portions of the cloud, building up an increasing negative charge. Charge separation and accumulation continue until the electrical potential becomes sufficient to initiate a lightning discharge, which occurs when the distribution of positive and negative charges forms a sufficiently strong electric field.

The mechanism by which charge separation happens is still the subject of research. Another hypothesis is the polarization mechanism, which has two components:

1. Falling droplets of ice and rain become electrically polarized as they fall through the Earth's

natural electric field;
2. Colliding ice particles become charged by electrostatic induction"


Well.. here I think.. I have written and mentioned enough to get someone curious enough to find out more.. the others are getting a way lot bored with such talks!!

Introduction

Well... as traditionally what I do on my blog.. with introducing a label.. I try and mention what kind of posts you will find in the label.. so here I am... introducing 'sci - log'

very honestly.. though I am a science (non medical) student.. I dont have much information on science.. but I love interacting with people.. and it has been God's grace that I have had teachers who have been amazing with their job... so I think I know somethings.. and I want to share them with others...

Sci - log will deal with mostly whatever we see around us.. normal things :P but I am just gonna show you the abnormality behind them.. that is the science behind them :D :D

Hope you will enjoy!