Let’s gets started by quoting something from the film ‘A Beautiful Mind’
“Everything is connected, that everything is part of the same subject”. What we intend to do here is to get you to ask questions to every possible thing you see around yourself. You are the “eager, young minds of tomorrow” and you just can’t be “terrified, mortified, petrified, stupefied” by science.
For being a scientist you need not to go the labs, work with sophisticated instruments, do crazy experiments (like the ones in marvel and dc movies) and give a splendid result. You can be a scientist by just even asking a basic simple question which no one had asked before and that forms the basis of all the discoveries and inventions. Millions of years of evolution are the result of just asking questions, asking to yourself, asking to people around you, asking nature. And while asking the question, we must be prepared for a lie for a wise man once said “hardest time to lie to somebody is when they are expecting to be lied to.” Observations can be deceptive; it is where the experiments come into play to reveal the real truth behind. By the way that wise man was Benedict Cumberbatch portraying famous mathematician Alan Turing in the movie The Imitation Games.
Let’s start by talking about something that has got even Elon Musk, one of the greatest thinkers of our time responsible for self-driving cars and reusable rockets, worried, Artificial Intelligence, which according to us may be the new electricity. So what is AI, you may think it is the venture to make super- intelligent robots that may take over the world in the future and although the ultimate aim is to make intelligent bots that may think on their own but currently, we are far away from that dream and AI is so much more than that as a matter of fact you come across AI daily without even knowing it. The voice assistants like Amazon Alexa or Apple’s Siri apply Natural Language Processing to understand what you speak and that is possible because
of Deep Reinforcement Learning one of the biggest and most exciting field in AI. When Amazon or Netflix shows you what you may like again Learning Algorithm called a recommender system is working behind the scenes and it has learned overtime what you may like and shows recommendations suited for you. Speaking of computing power another technology that is resulting in super-fast computers is quantum computing solet’s talk about that.
“Everything is connected, that everything is part of the same subject”. What we intend to do here is to get you to ask questions to every possible thing you see around yourself. You are the “eager, young minds of tomorrow” and you just can’t be “terrified, mortified, petrified, stupefied” by science.
For being a scientist you need not to go the labs, work with sophisticated instruments, do crazy experiments (like the ones in marvel and dc movies) and give a splendid result. You can be a scientist by just even asking a basic simple question which no one had asked before and that forms the basis of all the discoveries and inventions. Millions of years of evolution are the result of just asking questions, asking to yourself, asking to people around you, asking nature. And while asking the question, we must be prepared for a lie for a wise man once said “hardest time to lie to somebody is when they are expecting to be lied to.” Observations can be deceptive; it is where the experiments come into play to reveal the real truth behind. By the way that wise man was Benedict Cumberbatch portraying famous mathematician Alan Turing in the movie The Imitation Games.
of Deep Reinforcement Learning one of the biggest and most exciting field in AI. When Amazon or Netflix shows you what you may like again Learning Algorithm called a recommender system is working behind the scenes and it has learned overtime what you may like and shows recommendations suited for you. Speaking of computing power another technology that is resulting in super-fast computers is quantum computing solet’s talk about that.
Quantum Computing is the field where the principles of quantum mechanics are applied to making computers that are faster than the classical computers and process information in a very different way, where the binary digital electronic computers use bits (1’s and 0’s) to store information the quantum
computers use Qubits or quantum bits which are based on quantum properties of superposition and entanglement and can be in a superposition of multiple states. Recently the largest ever 51 Qubit machine with cold atoms was successfully tested and announced at the international conference of quantum technologies at Moscow in 2017. Another important technology tested based on quantum entanglement was by a group of Chinese researchers who were successfully able to teleport a photon from Earth to a
satellite in space using mirrors and lasers, quantum entanglement allows quantum objects to be linked even when separated by large distances. This technology has applications in how energy and information is moved and may result in the creation of a super-speed quantum internet which will be virtually hack-proof.
Let’s take a break here and have a kit-kat.
#Funfact 1 : If you have watched Phineas and Ferb or still watch this amazing cartoon then you must be knowing the cute and smart Perry the Platypus. Well the platypus is not so cute and cuddly.
#Funfact 2: Lasers can get trapped in waterfall. This is an example of total internal reflection and working principle behind optic fibre cable to guide the flow of light.
Speaking of space, humans have been in space for more than 50 years now let’s see what we have been“upto” up there. We have been searching for somebody to talk to in that loneliness obviously, Alienshave intrigued humans for a long time now and we have been looking for some planet suitable for life like Earth and maybe now this long search may finally have resulted in something. ESO the European organization for astronomical research have reported a Planet called LHS 1140b only a block away in space terms of 40 light years and it is the closest any planet is to the earth it lies in the habitable zone(not too hot nor too cold with a possibility of existence of water in large scales) called the “goldilocks”zone of a red dwarf dim star it also has a atmosphere and receives half as much light from its sun as the earth does from its. Also NASA has found a group of 7 Earth-sized planets called the “Trappist-1” system39 light years away in the Aquarius system surrounding a star with 3 of the 7 planets lying in the habitable zone and based on the general size and proximity to the star NASA predicts these can be habitable, Currently the radiation from the star it surrounds is more than the normal level but NASA says that it will fall to suitable levels in the next decade and then we can explore life there.
To following links will guide you to a deeper understanding of the topics mentioned –
Let’s take a break here and have a kit-kat.
#Funfact 1 : If you have watched Phineas and Ferb or still watch this amazing cartoon then you must be knowing the cute and smart Perry the Platypus. Well the platypus is not so cute and cuddly.
#Funfact 2: Lasers can get trapped in waterfall. This is an example of total internal reflection and working principle behind optic fibre cable to guide the flow of light.
Speaking of space, humans have been in space for more than 50 years now let’s see what we have been“upto” up there. We have been searching for somebody to talk to in that loneliness obviously, Alienshave intrigued humans for a long time now and we have been looking for some planet suitable for life like Earth and maybe now this long search may finally have resulted in something. ESO the European organization for astronomical research have reported a Planet called LHS 1140b only a block away in space terms of 40 light years and it is the closest any planet is to the earth it lies in the habitable zone(not too hot nor too cold with a possibility of existence of water in large scales) called the “goldilocks”zone of a red dwarf dim star it also has a atmosphere and receives half as much light from its sun as the earth does from its. Also NASA has found a group of 7 Earth-sized planets called the “Trappist-1” system39 light years away in the Aquarius system surrounding a star with 3 of the 7 planets lying in the habitable zone and based on the general size and proximity to the star NASA predicts these can be habitable, Currently the radiation from the star it surrounds is more than the normal level but NASA says that it will fall to suitable levels in the next decade and then we can explore life there.
To following links will guide you to a deeper understanding of the topics mentioned –
- http://www.graziame.com/life/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sophia-the-robot-including-the- fact-that-shes-saudi
- https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/705664/iron-man-suit-real-us-army-talos-special-forces- test-pictures-tony-stark-avengers-marvel
- https://qz.com/1277555/how-nikes-self-lacing-shoe-was-created-in-six-questions/
- https://www.bernardmarr.com/default.asp?contentID=963
- https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/learn/what-is-quantum-computing/
- http://www.wired.co.uk/article/quantum-computing-explained
- https://futurism.com/teleportation-could-possible-using-quantum-physics/
- https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1712/
- https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-clues-to-trappist-1-planet-compositions-atmospheres
- https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/welcome-lhs-1140b-super-earth-habitable-zone/
