Sandeep Ozarde

Vulcans Are Way Cooler Than Jedi

In Star Trek, the natives of the planet Vulcan are an extremely advanced humanoid species known throughout the galaxy for their logical minds, as a result of which their civilization has enjoyed millennia of peace and prosperity.

Vulcans don’t indulge in brutality. Their philosophy embraces non-violent engagement, Vulcans don’t believe answering violence with violence— but if their opponents…

Gravity Is The Curvature Of Spacetime

Isaac Newton published one of the most celebrated works of science, the Principia, in 1687. In it, he described that the force that pulls objects towards the ground is the very same force that underlies the motion of the planets and stars. He described the effects of gravity, but didn’t propose a mechanism for how it worked.

More than 200 years after the Principia was published, the world was…

Antimatter Is Not Antigravity

Matter is made up of atoms, which are the basic units of chemical elements such as hydrogen, helium or oxygen. Each element has a certain number of atoms: Hydrogen has one atom, helium has two atoms and so on.

The universe of an atom is complex, as it is full of exotic particles with properties of spin and “flavor” that physicists are only just beginning to understand. From a simple…

The Paradox Of Origin

In Rig Veda, the collection of hymns from around 1500 to 800 BCE, the poet of one of them contemplates the very question if something can be first, i.e. if there can have been a creation at all. The Rig Veda’s core is accepted to date to the late Bronze Age, making it one of the few examples with an unbroken tradition. Its composition is usually dated to roughly between 1500–1200 BCE.

The…

Designers, Data & The Fourth Industrial Revolution

The first English use of the word “data” is from the 1640s. Using the word “data” to mean “transmittable and storable computer information” was first done in 1946. The expression “data processing” was first used in 1954.

Data is growing at a faster rate than ever before. By 2020, every person online will create roughly 1.7 megabytes of new data every second of every day, and that’s on top of…

Design Thinking Doesn’t Teach You ‘How To Think’

Design Thinking is all about correct knowledge, the theory of Pramana (प्रमाण, literally means ‘proof’ and ‘means of knowledge’, it refers to epistemology in Indian philosophies) discusses questions like how ‘correct knowledge’ can be acquired before you apply them.

The concept is derived from the Sanskrit root, prama (प्रमा) which means “correct notion, true knowledge, basis, foundation,…

Albert Einstein inspired a paradigm shift in modern physics not as a scientist but as an artist.

Perhaps this is why creative people are so difficult to pin down. In both their creative processes and their brain processes, they bring seemingly contradictory elements together in unusual and unexpected ways.

Creative people are able to juggle contradictory modes of thought — cognitive and…

AI Common Sense Is Not That Common

Common sense is sometimes regarded as an impediment to abstract and even logical thinking, especially in mathematics and physics, where human intuition often conflicts with provably correct or experimentally verified results.

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” — Albert Einstein

Common sense is sometimes appealed to in political debates, particularly…

Design Is How It Works

You can design the way you lead, manage, create and innovate. The design way of thinking can be applied to systems, procedures, protocols, and customer, user experiences. The purpose of design ultimately is to improve the quality of life for people and the planet.

Design thinkers rely on customer insights gained from real-world experiments, not just historical data or market research.

Some…

Python Creators Value Design

Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer best known as the author of the Python programming language. Python was created at the end of 1980s. Its implementation started in 1989. Python’s philosophy is very interesting as it includes several aphorisms.

Python is now becoming one of the most popular programming languages in the world. Python is quickly becoming the top choice among developers for 

Higgs-Boson May Be a Starting Point For a Theory of Everything

Rolf-Dieter Heuer, former director general of European organization for nuclear research CERN, says it is unfortunate that pioneering Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose did not win the Nobel Prize for work on quantum physics in the 1920s that provided the foundation of the Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate, a dense collection of bosons or particles with…

Consciousness Is The Very Essence of Everything

Indian Vedic ontology, consciousness is not only seen as individualized awareness. It is the very essence of everything in existence and as such not only the source of individuation and the sense of self, but also a formative energy.

Consciousness is not only power of awareness of self and things, it is or has also a dynamic and creative energy. It can determine its own reactions or abstain…

Bhaskaracharya’s Work on Calculus Predates Newton

Sage Veda Vyas mentioned Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in his epic poem Mahabharata written more than 5000 years ago in India. Vyas has named them as Sweta, Syama, and Teekshana. I wonder how these discoveries credited to William Herschel 1791, Johann Galle 1846, Tombaugh 1930?

Bhāskarāchārya’s work on calculus predates Newton and Leibniz by over half a millennium.

Bhāskarāchārya was the first…

Interstellar Travel Not Possible For At Least 200 Years

Marc Millis, former head of NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project and founder of the Tau Zero Foundation, which supports interstellar travel research. Marc Millis crunched 27 years of data on energy trends, mission energy requirements, individual energy use and even societal priorities, and chose two possible trips: An aimless interstellar colony ship, and a 75-year-long mission to Alpha…

Robots Still Can’t Tell A Joke

Google’s open-source research project that’s aimed at making art and music with machine learning. Artificial Intelligence researchers engaged in the seriously difficult business of teaching machines to laugh or tell a joke.

Software has even developed to determine the correct pause time in response to laughter cues, and in detecting hidden laughter.

Humor requires self-awareness,…