Dateline 04 Jul.
1. The greatest 'discovery' of our times.
Scientists at Switzerland's European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) have established that indeed there's what's known as 'God Particle'! Before I go any further let me provide certain clarifications, so that, I don't sound to be speaking an alien language!!
(a) Margin of error. CERN has a 5-sigma result which means that the scientists are 99.999% sure that
they've discovered a new subatomic particle.
(b) Higgs Boson.
(i) 48 years ago, British scientist Peter Higgs had first suggested that there could be a particle that
confers mass. Scientists, till then, were grappling to explain as to how the solar system had evolved
after the 'big bang' of gaseous and hot molecules in the universe, 13.7 billion years ago(known
as the 'Big Bang Theory'). Without this particle, the universe would have been a formless soup of
particles shooting around at the speed of light and hence, the intrigue!
(ii) Satyendra Nath Bose, a contemporary of Einstein, worked on the sub-atomic particle moving by
itself and hence, it was given the name 'Boson'.
(iii) Nobel physicist, Leon Lederman, like the other scientists of his times trying to describe the
frustrations, called it 'the Goddam particle' and the nomenclature 'God particle' came to be stuck
with the Higgs Boson after permutations!
(c) the experiment was carried out in the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) - a ring shaped tunnel of about
27 kilometres long, deep underground near Geneva, where the conditions that existed at the time
of the 'big bang' were simulated. It's the largest particle accelerator conceived ever!
My take.
I'm sure that this discovery will help science to ultimately unlock the mystery of life and come with a plausible answer to the vexed questions, 'which came first, the egg or the chicken?' or even 'is there anything like God?' or to put it in another manner, 'did God make you, me and the universe?'
2. The Air India Pilots are back to work.
After 58 days of striking work, the AI pilots have returned without really achieving anything. The airline seems to have lost about Rs.650 crores and the passengers, unlimited - because the missed flights, the resultant agony/heartburn and missed deadlines, that they'd gone through, can never be quantified!
I was astonished by a pilot saying that thankfully the loss is only this much and it could have been over Rs.900 crores had they carried it over for another week. How insensitive and callous? What he and his ilk don't understand is that their gain can never be at the cost of their organisation's loss because it's just not sustainable! His grin will be a thing of the past if Air India were to pack up irretrievably from mounting losses.
My take.
To make Air India, financially sound and an efficient organisation, I'm of the opinion that its management has to be dynamic and proactive to the needs of the times. Privatisation is, perhaps, the best remedy!!
1. The greatest 'discovery' of our times.
Scientists at Switzerland's European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) have established that indeed there's what's known as 'God Particle'! Before I go any further let me provide certain clarifications, so that, I don't sound to be speaking an alien language!!
(a) Margin of error. CERN has a 5-sigma result which means that the scientists are 99.999% sure that
they've discovered a new subatomic particle.
(b) Higgs Boson.
(i) 48 years ago, British scientist Peter Higgs had first suggested that there could be a particle that
confers mass. Scientists, till then, were grappling to explain as to how the solar system had evolved
after the 'big bang' of gaseous and hot molecules in the universe, 13.7 billion years ago(known
as the 'Big Bang Theory'). Without this particle, the universe would have been a formless soup of
particles shooting around at the speed of light and hence, the intrigue!
(ii) Satyendra Nath Bose, a contemporary of Einstein, worked on the sub-atomic particle moving by
itself and hence, it was given the name 'Boson'.
(iii) Nobel physicist, Leon Lederman, like the other scientists of his times trying to describe the
frustrations, called it 'the Goddam particle' and the nomenclature 'God particle' came to be stuck
with the Higgs Boson after permutations!
(c) the experiment was carried out in the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) - a ring shaped tunnel of about
27 kilometres long, deep underground near Geneva, where the conditions that existed at the time
of the 'big bang' were simulated. It's the largest particle accelerator conceived ever!
My take.
I'm sure that this discovery will help science to ultimately unlock the mystery of life and come with a plausible answer to the vexed questions, 'which came first, the egg or the chicken?' or even 'is there anything like God?' or to put it in another manner, 'did God make you, me and the universe?'
2. The Air India Pilots are back to work.
After 58 days of striking work, the AI pilots have returned without really achieving anything. The airline seems to have lost about Rs.650 crores and the passengers, unlimited - because the missed flights, the resultant agony/heartburn and missed deadlines, that they'd gone through, can never be quantified!
I was astonished by a pilot saying that thankfully the loss is only this much and it could have been over Rs.900 crores had they carried it over for another week. How insensitive and callous? What he and his ilk don't understand is that their gain can never be at the cost of their organisation's loss because it's just not sustainable! His grin will be a thing of the past if Air India were to pack up irretrievably from mounting losses.
My take.
To make Air India, financially sound and an efficient organisation, I'm of the opinion that its management has to be dynamic and proactive to the needs of the times. Privatisation is, perhaps, the best remedy!!
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