If I could build a time machine and change what hurts me presently then I am destroying the very cause of building the machine in the first place and hence I conclude that the past can not be changed!
ALTERNATE PERSPECTIVE:
What if time machines are not meant for traveling into the past or the possible future but are the mediums for traveling into possible past timelines that were existing as the future at that time.
Maybe instead of going back and changing things I could just go and live in one such possible past timeline that doesn’t contain the cause of my present sorrow and hence I am not destroying my time machine either and doing time travel easily!
CONCLUSION:
Don’t cry over your past however or how much it hurts.
You have the power to enter a different timeline everytime.
Travel into a better one.
It’s all in your mind! Open it. See through it and live through it! ☺
If you have lived in Delhi for over 5-10 years, you might know the existence of Compressed Natural Gas powered vehicles. You get accustomed to the cleaner, less polluted air. The “greener” air. So why am I being some nature huger and talking about the CNG gas?
26th May 2014, 2 pm, Secunderabad Railway Station : Something was wrong. Something in the air. Eyes started getting irritation. And the pollutants in the air made it harder to breathe. The southern state of India, Andhra Pradesh is petrol powered. Yes. That was the first impression of Hyderabad I got. Just as any other place, a buzz of auto-rickshaw drivers came into my ear. Everyone yelling at top of their lungs to just pull you into their “ride” and take you to any place you want at of course at a rate obviously higher than the legitimate one.
I had gotten into a summer internship at International Institute of Information Technology, which is situated at Gachibowli, Hyderabad. So about 26 kilometers from the railway station was the place where I was going to stay for the next 2 months.
Rare Earth materials, as their name implies, are found on Earth. They may not necessarily be rare, but they can be tough to harvest as they can be spread throughout the world’s crust.
This is a full list of rare earth materials, many of which are mined and sold in China.
Scandium – used for aerospace components, and an additive in Mercury lamps
Yttrium – used in TVs, high-temperature superconductors, and microwave filters
Lanthanum used for battery-electrodes, camera lenses, and in the oil industry
Cerium – used as polishing powder, yellow colors in glass and ceramics, self-cleaning ovens, and the flints in lighters
Praseodymium – used for certain magnets, lasers, carbon arc lighting, and as a colorants in glasses and enamels
Neodymium – used in magnets, lasers, violet colors in glass and ceramics, and ceramic capacitors
Promethium – used in nuclear batteries
Samarium – used in lasers, neutron capture
Europium – used in lasers and mercury lamps
Gadolinium – used in lasers, X-ray tubes, computer memories, neutron capture, and MRI machines
Terbium – used in fluorescent lamps
Dysprosium – used in magnets and lasers
Holmium – used in lasers
Erbium – used in lasers
Thulium – used in some X-ray machines
Ytterbium – used in infrared lasers and chemical research
Lutetium – used in PET Scan detectors and high refractive index glass
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
These materials give China the strength to rule the 23% of global market of the earth’s rare matter, subsequently giving it the power of ruling almost 90% of the worlds’ gadgets and their components’ market, ruling the gangs of gadgets makers. From the cheapest Rs 1000 mobile phone to the various parts in our Nokias and Apples, from plastic toys to the toasters and ovens in our kitchens. You name it and China gives it you at a price you can’t resist. A relative of mine who recently set up his business in China told me this weekend how things work in the Kung-Fu land. You select the kind of television you want and the Chinese factory will produce 3 similar items of prices in increasing order and you select your price i.e the quality of product in other words! That is how China spins the globe on its fingertips. China’s richness in these rare matter gives it the edge against any other country.
However these rare materials are like any other gift from mother nature. If used judiciously, will last forever, but if exploited, then it will flow away like sand in palm. Unfortunately, the latter is happening. The government of China has recently published a stat showing that the total raw material extraction efficiency has fallen down significantly in the past decade, falling from 50% to 15%, far below even from the half mark. the global warming doesn’t seem to be limited only to drying up of water bodies, but also the natural resources. If the trends continue, the global market will not take too long to start looking for newer options or collapse if it fails to find alternatives, as China alone contributes to 90% market of the robot world.
Besides, the industry is also plagued by over-capacity in low-end product manufacturing and the fact that prices of rare earth products fail to reflect their value and scarcity despite a gradual rise since the second half of 2010, according to the white paper.
This is not a scare but a fair warning before the world comes to an end for all the gadget gurus! I mean, what if you stop getting all your iPad’s and Galxay’s and Surfaces!!
P.S. Microsoft Surface is out! Watch out for my review!
Mainnu toh byali (42) inch da LCD chai da! – Dadi from Vicky Donor!
Laughed like crazy at that scene,right?
But do you know what is LCD? Stop acting smart! I am not talking about the full form. Liquid Crystal Display. We all know that along with the commonly known fact that “sirji,the display screen contains some kind of a liquid that is giving us a crystal clear display”, according to Govind Singh, from the electronics shop at Sarojini Nagar.
Is the LCD really “crystal clear”? Is it really an advantage over the CRT TV’s (Cathode Ray Tube).
The answer is surprisingly no! Reading deeper into the matter, its was realized that LCD do not really give the “crystal clear” display as it is claimed by Mr.Govind Singh! LCD screens are not clearer than CRT screens.
The LCD monitors are only good regarding the size, electricity consumption and sleek designs.
If the factors are changed to viewing experience, the big old fellas, CRT monitors are far better. The big backside screens provide clearer viewing. The colour range is wider and the resolution they provide is much more intense. And this is not some shitty research! We can ourselves experience that. Simple experiment. On a simple cable tv, watch the same channel, by the same cable operator, on a CRT and on a LCD screen. The LCD will definitely fall back upon the resolution and would show pixellated motions. Further, if you use Standard definition digital tv signals on CRT, the colours and resolution effects are so pronounced that it can compete with the HD TV on your LCD.
Further moving on to the LED’s. Now, here, LED’s win the battle for sure. LED’s win the battle by more natural and vivid on-screen viewing. Watching a cliff-diver fall down actually rumbles your stomach and leaves you back with a smile about the feel of it!
The only drawback with LED’s is the cost of making, the electricity bills and the effect on ecology by the colour films used(RGB).
But here is the savior to the above drawbacks! OLED! The new guy in the family of televisions is the Organic Light emitting Diodes! And by the name we know that anything organic is good! OLED provides better quality with a duty to save the nature! OLED’s are made up of organic RGB films which provide more active ions to produce more eminent light emission. Organic polymers like dendrimers and triphenyleamine is used as the charge carriers for the diode (in this case, the holes).
It must be noted that OLED is still under testing stages and one must not jump on to it,like any other beta phase technology. It has been found out that out of the three colour films, the RGB, while red and green are more lasting ( approx. working 46,000 hours and 230,000 hours respectively), the blue film has a very short life-cycle of just 14,000 hours.
CRT compared to all the above technologies seem far better with no hassles about the life-cycle of the colour films, equally good quality and the net production cost. However, the bulky cathode ray tube makes it lose the battle in the times of nano-technology, thus losing the market!
I have had opportunity to experience all the above stats and I own LCD, CRT and TFT screens myself. Additions and rectifications are more than welcome coz I am just a novice myself!
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