Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Newton Discovered Gravity because he was BORED

What does one do when he has nothing to do. He obviously gets bored. Like when I am bored I am writing this blog. This blog might contain nothing useful so reading this is of no use what so ever.
Come to think of it, when a person is bored he can make his time constructive by working on a new theory. Like when i was once bored i thought of writing a theory or an invention on glass. Glasses which provide sight and penetrate through anything. It gives you the vision of James Bond kinda glasses. When i was thinking about this, a thought came into my mind about light. What we call sight or vision is the absorption/reflection (it could be anything i was strong in physics then not now) of white light. A particular wavelength was absorbed and the rest of it was reflected. But what actually struck me was making a fool out of someone. Invent such pair of glasses which don't reflect any colour as in there is no vision. he he. The though is extremely stupid but mind you i really did think that this could be possible. I wrote something down and got it reviewed by myself because i could not risk showing this to any body and since i was bored i could do anything. But when i reviewed it, i myself was ashamed of my so-called genius. I gave up on my theory.
Another thought struck me then. But i cant remember what it is now because i forget things. So to remember my theory I had to get bored again as I am now and so are you if you have reached this point in the blog. So i suggest find something more interesting like what a kangaroo means or is there any chance of Atlantis existing. Boredom could never kill. It could lead to innovation. Who knows newton would be sitting under the apple tree wondering wtf and suddenly things happen. And at that point of time he was so bored, that he could develop a theory on gravity. Well, I am not calling myself Newton but at least half points for the attempt on the theory of ......
I need to think of a name for this theory.
Consider Archimedes. What was going on in his mind when he thought of buoyancy. The force exerted by the goblet or whatever it was that fell in the water displaced some amount of water. I agree it struck at that point and he created something out of it. But could he not think of it when he was entering the tub. I mean come on. The photographic illustrations of Archimedes moving around town naked should have suggested that he was pretty heavy and he would have caused more displacement. But then Einstein would have said Relative to his weight the weight of the container was more prominent. Don't ask me why Einstein would have said that. I just mentioned it because he talked first about relativity for every term.
Lets not forget the great Leonardo DaVinci. He could write, draw, paint with both his hands. He was a great architect. DaVinci was the kind of person who did not want to get bored. As soon as he got bored he thought of something to do. Imagine him standing in the balcony admiring the men outside, and trying to draw as many of those men in the least possible time. He must have got fed up because he would be eventually doing the same thing. So he tried different things. And succeeded because he was bored of the time he had in his hands.
Well, this is not to make fun of those great people who have given us some thing to think about and actually ponder on the things going around us. But to think of these great people really makes me feel good. You look at a portrait or whatever of any one of these people then you ponder and say now that's a man/woman who has done something good with his free time. This is what is missing these days. Most of everybody think they need to earn money. Money has become the major objective. But they fail to understand that they need to know about things around. About things they were meant to see. Now a days there are a very few Leonardo DaVinci, Newton, Einstein, and many other great names and many millionaires, billionaires. People make the person who has the most money famous. And who would not want to be famous?? But the question lies there but in a different way.... who would want to be famous????

1 comment:

Craftcravesandwanderlust said...

interesting........im sure ull make it big sum day coz ur often bored!