Sunday, October 4, 2009

Stephen Hawking is making his Comeback : Summary Blog


        The lede pulls me in to read the article " Stephen Hawking is making his Comeback". "The crowd turns to watch the frail physicist being wheeled at a good clip down the center aisle. He is wearing a charcoal gray suit and an open-neck white shirt; his head slumps toward his right shoulder; his hands are folded neatly in his lap. The music segues to The Blue Danube Waltz as he rolls up a ramp to the stage." I believe that part of the lede is the part that reals the reader in. The author writes very descriptively and makes the reader feel as if they are sitting in the audience themselves. I would give the lede a grade of 20%.
     I belive the author asked and answered all the right questions. He went into great detail about everything. He talks about Stephen Hawkins personal life along with his professional accomplishments. I believe the style of writing is good. Better than anything that I could write! It gets alittle confusing because it goes into such detail, but it also is a good thing because it shows that the author really knew what he as talking about and that he did alot of research.
       “Because he couldn’t write equations and stare at them and do long calculations by hand, he developed a 
         approach to thinking about things where he could manipulate shapes in his head in order to get insights that other 
         people couldn’t get. I think it is very likely true that he has done greater work as a result of this handicap than he 
         would have done other­wise, and I think he believes that as well.”
 The author does a great job of explaining facts about Stephen, and he writes compassionately about the person who alot of people would've called our Modern Day Einstein. I would grade the writing ability, organization and the questions that he asked and answered with a 20% for both.
The author does a good job writing scientifically. He goes into great detail but I don't personally think that he makes the science easier to understand. But I also believe if someone wasn't interested in science and the origin of the universe that they wouldn't  be reading this article in the first place. I would grade the explanation of the science in the article with at 18%.

  

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  1. Based on my recent comments posted in various blogs , I have postulated a hypothesis. propose. Theoretcal Physics describes four fundamental forces of nature viz., weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, electromagnetic force and force of gravity. Here we can present an analogy. Weak and strong nuclear forces represent pancha-bhutas or the five elements. Electromagnetic force represents force of current of mind which mainly works through sensory organs and force of gravity represents supra-causal state of Consciousness. We know that during advanced stage of practice of meditation and yoga pancha-bhutas or five elements merge into mind and mind into supra-causal state of Consciousness and ultimately Individual Consciousness merges into Cosmic Consciousness. This is the state of Perfect Bliss or Self-Realization. Likewise during the reverse process of Cosmic Evolution i.e. Perfect Dissolution of the Universe, weak and strong nuclear forces merge into electromagnetic force and electromangnetic force merges into force of gravity.

    In the beginning, the enetire Creation came into existence from this Single Force Current which later on manifested into many force currents during the process of Cosmic Evolution.

    Gravitation Force is the Ultimate Creator, this paper I presented at the 1st Int. Conf. on Revival of Traditional Yoga, held at The Lonavla Yoga Institute (India), Lonavla, Pune in 2006. The Abstract of this paper is given below:

    The Universe includes everything that exists. In the Universe there are billions and billions of stars. These stars are distributed in the space in huge clusters. They are held together by gravitation and are known as galaxies. Sun is also a star. Various members of the solar system are bound to it by gravitation force. Gravitation force is the ultimate cause of birth and death of galaxy, star and planets etc. Gravitation can be considered as the cause of various forms of animate and inanimate existence. Human form is superior to all other forms. Withdrawal of gravitational wave from some plane of action is called the death of that form. It can be assumed that gravitation force is ultimate creator. Source of it is ‘God’. Gravitational Field is the supreme soul (consciousness) and its innumerable points of action may be called as individual soul (consciousness). It acts through body and mind. Body is physical entity. Mind can be defined as the function of autonomic nervous system. Electromagnetic waves are its agents through which it works. This can be realized through the practice of meditation and yoga under qualified meditation instruction. This can remove misunderstanding between science and religion and amongst various religions. This is the gist of all religious teachings – past, present and future.

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