Well here's a great news. We have decided to prepone the Maths quiz for class 10th (it is supposed to have at least 2 activities in a year)on the suggestion of Mrs. N. Laxmi. The notices shall be circulated to the classes and the posters stuck on the notice boards by Monday. All interested participants may contact their respective maths teachers for submitting your names. We expect 3 participants from each section. The prelims- written round- will be held on 28th of April in the Maths Lab. From this 15 students shall be selected for finals (to be held on 11th May). Expecting great enthusiasm from you all.
Hey, by the way, noticed the title of my post?? Wierd?? Naaa.
Why not??? Here is the answer.
Whether this universe has been created or has existed in this form, I know not. But what I do know is that this seemingly unbound vast expense has some real ferocious regions of space and time. Go close to it, beyond its horizon, you find yourself being split apart. Your head and trunk turn into bits of matter and then to blobs of energy- photons. The giant eats you and then spits you(or rather your E=mc^2). This black giant is what we call the
BLACK HOLE. The very fact that it is called a 'hole' can prove my statement and I can finish it off in the next couple of words, but I shall not. What is so interesting about black holes?? They are black! Now is that a joke ?? Absolutely not! The truth is, being black doesn't allow us to peep into its extremities (very peculiar way of saving yourself from the eyes of Mathematics, I should say). Firstly we don't see it it. And when we get to it, we don't find it. Who is to be blamed??? Aha! I say Mathematics (what an irony! I love the subject and I say this!). Mathematics can explain all. Science can speak in this language. But it fails to explain what goes on in a black hole. It fails to deal with infinity- the infinite time & space dragged into the hole- the infinite mass of the universe it sucks in- an insatiable hunger. Mathematics cannot work in this "
SINGULARITY" of function. The very idea why we cannot find a finite & well defined value for tan pi/2 explains why we cannot predict the events that might be occuring inside the balck hole!!
Think about it!!
I got some good books on this which you would like to refer.
The Road To Reality - by Roger Penrose
Essays on Black Holes and Baby Universes - by Stephen Hawking
Brief History Of Time - " "
Universe In A Nutshell- " "
Those who are passionate about talking of space and time geometry, higher dimensions would certainly like to read '
Warped Passages' by Lisa Randall.Well another book you got to read is '
The lost lecture of Richard Feynman'- this book is the most awesome piece of work after Newton's Principia. The book takes us on a journey of proving why planets revolve in elliptical orbits, using pure plane geometry. Richard Feynman has dared to dream like Newton. He challenges Newton(remeber he had calculus to help him) by developing his own proof. He really deserved the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1965.Why are we talking about physics here? Because Mathematics is the heart of it. The heart fails, the body fails. I strongly believe in interdisciplinary research. Being shelled won't help. No two streams are irrelevant. No two sciences are disjoint. Each finds an application in the other. To separate one from the other means to be amputating the limbs of the body of knowledge. This is exactly what we, at the Maths Lab, try to profess & learn. When we say we know little about this universe(s), we mean that we know only a fraction of the rules of the game and only a fraction of the links between one move of the chess & the other. Learn to dream! Daydream!
Adrish Bhadra
XII-A
Coordinator of Events,
MATSOC,
species.dipsite@gmail.com
