Saturday, January 17, 2009

Random Number Sequences- Do they really exist ?

Well, the big question is - is it possible to create a truly random sequence of numbers ?

I was thinking on these lines -
  1. Generation can be either done synthetically (human created algorithm) or by observing a certain parameter of a naturally occuring event. I believe that all human attempts are unlikely to be truly random creations as there shall always be a mathematical logic behind it, which shall always give predictable sequence.
  2. The queer part is that, if we believe that eventually science (which always has a mathematical formulation) can explain all natural phenomenon, then we cannot get a sequence of random numbers from nature. (if (1) above is true!)
Does above mean truly random number sequences do not exist. Because if they do then, boy, does it prove that science cannot explain nature in its entirity ?

What do you think ?

Friday, January 02, 2009

Shared

This is to the old times. I had joined TI after college and we were bunch of friends - a poet, a birdwatcher :) and tum-bahut-funny-hote-ho. We would share lot of things many a times, till we grew up, e.g. walks, time after work, dinner, snacks and sometimes shers which lead to the concept of share-d, a random spam of mails with shero-shairi.

Google search helped me collect a few, and put some that I liked here:
First,

वक्त की हो धूप या हो तेज़ आंधियाँ

कुछ कदमों के निशान कभी नही खोते

जिन्हें याद करके मुस्कुरा दे आँखें

वोह लोग दूर होकर भी दूर नही होते

Second,

आपकी मुस्कान हमारी कमज़ोरी है

कह न पाना हमारी मज़बूरी है

आप क्यों नही समझते इस खामोशी को

क्या खामोशी को जुबान देना ज़रूरी है ?

A beginning...

More Physics

What did Heisenberg say about sex?
If you've got the position you haven't got the momentum & if you've got the energy you haven't got the time!

The do it collection....
  1. Acoustics do it orally.
  2. Electron microscopists do it 100,000 times.
  3. Particle physicists do it energetically.
  4. Heisenberg was never sure whether or not he did it.
  5. Quantum theorists do it in tiny tiny pieces.
  6. Spectroscopists do it with frequency and intensity.
  7. Physicists do it in waves.