Quantum Theory Fails Reality Checks

A very interesting article on Quantum Theory...Following are some of the paragraphs from the article:-

"The big question always was … whether one can go beyond this probabilistic description," says physicist Markus Aspelmeyer of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna. Perhaps Einstein was right that "God does not play dice," and a photon has a true state that is somehow hidden from experiments


In other words, Aspelmeyer says, nonlocality is not enough to save realism from quantum theory. "You have to pay a price," he says. In effect, quantum naysayers like Einstein would have to swallow the spider to catch the fly. "I'm still amazed [at the experiment's outcome], I have to say."

Read the entire article on the Scientific American >>

Google >> Search >> Advertising

I know it's quite over-hackneyed, but today Google has engulfed the concept of search...I have heard people say "Have you googled that on Yahoo?" Amusing but true! So it looks like if it is search, then it has to be Google!

But many of you, who are net junkies, would agree that Google is also making itself synonymous to more thing... Any guesses??? Well yes Advertising! Of course, Google is a media company and has its business model around that...but the extent to which they are going is just shocking... Was internet advertising not enough, that they have plunged into Radio Advertising!

The only thing I wonder is, has Google reached a stagnation in case of Search Technology? Well, apart from some "Powder-Lipstick" changes nothing much has changed on main Google Search...May be I am doing the over-kill... But its only Google who knows the truth!

Life Is A Highway

Life is a highway is the OST of the animation movie CARS. Really cool song...with really great lyrics...well here is the modified poetry of the song:-

Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
To Break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today

Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights

Knock me down get back up again
You're in my blood
I'm not a lonely man
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors

There was a distance between you and I
A misunderstanding once
But now we look it in the eye

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Check out the video at YouTube

Two Seconds For Peace

Life's strangled in labyrinths of self
And every pebble has a story to tell

In veins flows the pain
"Blood" a writing on the wall

A desire to live, is a hope
Lost in the conflagrations of inferno

What we just need are
Two Seconds For Peace

The Twenty20 Cricket World Cup

Here it is guys...the abridged version of the game...The twenty20 Cricket World Cup.
The grouping and schedule goes as follows: -

Group A: South Africa, West Indies, Bangladesh.
Group B: Australia, England, Zimbabwe.
Group C: New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Kenya.
Group D: Pakistan, India, Scotland. (The Group Of Death)

Fixtures:

September 11: South Africa vs West Indies (Johannesburg)
September 12: New Zealand vs Kenya (Durban); Pakistan vs Scotland (Durban); Australia vs Zimbabwe (Cape Town)
September 13: West Indies vs Bangladesh (Johannesburg); Zimbabwe vs England (Cape Town); India vs Scotland (Durban)
September 14: Sri Lanka vs Kenya (Johannesburg); Australia vs England (Cape Town); India vs Pakistan (Durban)
September 15: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand (Johannesburg); South Africa vs Bangladesh (Cape Town)

September 16: C1 vs D2 (Johannesburg); B1 vs A2 (Cape Town); A1 vs B2 (Cape Town)
September 17: D1 vs C2 (Johannesburg)
September 18: C1 vs B2 (Durban); B1 vs D1 (Johannesburg); A2 vs C2 (Johannesburg)
September 19: A1 vs C1 (Durban); B2 vs D2 (Durban)
September 20: B1 vs C2 (Cape Town); A2 vs D1 (Cape Town); A1 vs D2 (Durban)

September 22: Semi-final E2 vs F1 (Cape Town); Semi-final E1 vs F2 (Durban).

September 24: Final (Johannesburg).


You can have a go at the entire article at Cricket.Indiatimes.com

Stupid Is As Stupid Does!

Forrest Gump ...now I remember...thats the movie where I first heard this phrase...well if this happens to be a most common phrase of your vocab...then please pardon my English... It's not my mother tongue!
More interestingly this phrase got stuck into my head and over years I kept on wondering about its meaning, until I googled for it today! Some Mr. Tony Lee explains its meaning as:

"It means that and intelligent person who does stupid things is still stupid. You are what you do.
Another variation is beauty is as beauty does or ugly is as ugly does."

So there you go some interesting gyan (hindi word for knowledge) for the day!

There are some very interesting reads on this topic over the web. I have shortlisted some of them below... rest you can always google.

1) Stupid Is As Stupid Does By Scott Reeves at Forbes.com
2) Stupid Is As Stupid Does By Charley Reese at LewRockwell.com
3) http://newmexiken.com/archives/2007/03/0010689.php