When the clock strikes 12, the hour and minute hands exactly line up with each other. Are there other times when this handshake happens? We could say six-thirty, but nope, the hour hand is a little further than the half-hour mark. Not a quarter past three, the hour hand is ahead. Not a quarter to nine, the hour hand …
Month: April 2008
Thoughts
The only thing that’s missing in this gift of life is an essential ingredient: a constant reminder of how precious it is. But is life precious only because we are living? Then I woke up. Suddenly, I was irreversibly awake. And the reality that I saw, I had always known it — deep …
What I think of academic talk
Suppose we have a system (A) of linear equations. Suppose it defines all possible orientations of a particular magnetic field in space, under certain conditions. Suppose some of these orientations satisfy a second set (B) of linear equations, where n(B) ≤ n(A). Suppose we take the two systems A and B and the magnetic field …
One Life 