Human behavior explained through Physics principle

You never know what the next moment is going to bring in front of you. At times, you may come across something which is totally unexpected. Something like this happened to me recently.

I was attending one session on Physics. We were discussing about unit of measuring distances, to be precise, very large units of them viz. light years, AU etc. The professor went on to explain, why light years. The lecture continued like – distance between Sun and Earth is measured in light years because the distance is too large and it is not feasible to measure it in conventional units, so we need larger units. So one light years is – distance traveled by light in one year.

Discussion continued, about AU (Astronomical Unit) and went further about how do we measure distances of stars which are far away from Sun, what are the techniques for it?

One of the method was, we know Earth is moving at certain speed in certain orbit. One of the method used this knowledge of Earth's speed and orbit to find distance of stationary object. I will try to explain it here,

(Sorry for the bad diagram, but it is really difficult for me use paint. And anyway that's not the point that we are trying to see here.)

The arc represents orbit through which Earth moves. So when Earth is at position 1, the star appears to right side of the observer, while when Earth is at position 2, star appears on left. Now using the knowledge of orbit, arc, speed of Earth, if we put up some geometrical expressions, we can find the distance between Earth and Star.

To explain this principle, rather to experiment it, professor suggested us one exercise.

He wrote one sentence on Blackboard, "This is reference sentence"

Then, he asked to hold our pen in hand, stretch the hand, and keep the pen exactly in front of our face. Now the he asked to close one eye, and then asked us what is the position of pen with respect to sentence written on blackboard.

With my left eye closed, I could see the pen somewhere on the word "reference"

Then, with my right eye closed, I could see the pen somewhere on the word "sentence"

So this was it, pen was stationary, but as I looked through different eyes, 'Position' of pen 'appeared' to be changed.

The reason being, distance between my left eye and right eye!!!

And this was the Eureka moment for me, suddenly it struck to me that, position of stationary pen appear different to me when I observe it through my own eyes, then how can two different people observing something have same views about anything. If a distance of couple of centimeters in my two eyes result in 'difference'; then it is bound for two different people to have different views on same thing.

Physics principle explains Human behavior with this experiment!!!

Diary of Young Girl: Anne Frank

I first saw this book in my last year of engineering. I had found E-book of this and tried to read it, but wasn't accustomed to reading books on computer back then, hence left it half way through.

Now, after two and half years later, I came across this book again. And this time, it kept me engaged from start to end.

It is diary of 13 year old girl, a Jew girl who is hiding in secret place with her family, trying to save themselves from Nazis. Although the book is written on back drop of World War II, but its not at all a mere 'History' book. 

Its an account of a adolescent girls emotions, world seen through her eyes, in her own words.

Although she was with her family, there are times when she felt, she was all alone in the world. She thinks her sister is more smart, beautiful, hence, at times she is angry with her. A very typical of 13-14 year child. In such days her diary is her only companion.

There are references to religion, its importance (as felt and understood by her) . She was not able to understand why is she being subjected to such a torture because of Jewish origin.

Constant fear of getting caught, have made her lock herself in confined place for a long time of two years. And it is life threatening for her to step outside, probably that is the reason why her love for nature has increased. She wants to go out in the rain, want to see the sun rising, but she knows she can't...she can't step out of the house.

As a reader, we can feel her evolving and maturing with time.

The diary does not let you keep it aside, until all of a sudden you find some days missing.

It is an account of an adolescent girls mind, her ideas of life, her dreams, which the so called 'grown ups' shattered due to their fanaticism.