Physics No More

I am back. This post is, however, not about me - but about something that may change the very pillars of how we view the universe.

Internet is going wild. A shocking finding appeared on Forbes 13 minutes ago, Reuters an hour ago, and on another major news source 13 seconds ago. Articles are multiplying as I type.

CERN, the infamous large hadron collider, produced some unexpected results. Neutrinos (tiny particles with many puzzling properties) which were fired by the collider into the receptors 750km away, have arrived at the speed faster than the speed of light.

The difference in speed has been subtle. But it has been formulated by Einstein that the speed of light is constant and nothing in the Universe can travel faster than light. Physics has since then relied on this concept to explain matter, mass, the Universe - everything! The results published today override E = MC^2. Time travel is now no longer science fiction. Our whole understanding of nature is under question.

"Einstein's special relativity theory that says energy equals mass times the speed of light squared underlies "pretty much everything in modern physics," said John Ellis, a theoretical physicist at CERN who was not involved in the experiment. "It has worked perfectly until now."

Scientists are being cautious and many follow up tests will be conducted to measure the accuracy of results. But if it holds true then this is not just another finding. It is a revolution.

What an interesting time to be a physicist.

New Direction

I have been thinking about this blog and I want to take it to a new direction. I want to return to what my original idea has been and go beyond that. My blog watered down significantly from that point down onto here, meaningless posts, irregular content. Old content won't be deleted because probably one day it will be interesting, to see what everything started from.

However, you can definitely expect something new. I will take a hiatus for a couple of weeks. And then, once I return, we'll see what will happen.

Adios until then,

Me

US Foreign Politics & Currency

A perceptive illustrative commentary by a talented artist Pawel Kuczynski. Search him up, some amazing stuff.

Interesting..

An illustrative commentary on the Russian political tandem. It was more interesting when few realized it, and more on the edge when no one dared to talk about it. Nevertheless, this is still reality encased in caricature.

Experience minus knowledge

I want to blog on a complete uselessness of business schools. In fact, the more advanced they are - the further from the ground they are, and the less real the knowledge learned there becomes.

The theory at business schools is just so detached from what is needed in a business school. The classical approaches learned, which are great and all, in real life meet the obstacles of time and money. The two planes on which business operates and which limit any outgoing theoretical developments, because it is the end result that matters - not the theory behind it.

I understand that this theory may help with the general understanding, that knowing accounting principles, per say, may be important. But isn't it learned much faster through exposure to the industry? Why waste 4 years or even more sitting in a classroom when by the time you graduate, the knowledge will be obsolete? To acquire the time management and hard working skills you'll need to succeed in real life? Well, the real life is where those skills will be learned best and fastest.

A lot of mega-successful enterpreneurs don't have formal business education. Steve Jobs dropped college after one year. He is now a business magnate. Richard Warren Sears, was a simple workman at a railroad. His stores are now across the country making millions.

Maybe business is overall, supposed to be something innate rather than learned. I don't know. I do know that practically all successful businessmen had their degrees in something else, or no degrees at all.

Yet, business schools are required by society. Employers look at experience more than at GPA's, but many hypocritically require the useless BBA or BCom degrees and the like. So society leaves many bright and talented individuals, to the numbers of which I do not belong, with no other choice but to spend 4 (or more for MBA's) years doing nothing useful.

Sad.

Minimalist Ads

I was browsing the net for some advertising inspiration. I found it interesting, the application of minimalist concepts to ads. This is what I'm talking about:

What I find amusing in these ads is that when there is as little as possible, the idea is the most clear.

New is the Well Forgotten Old

I came across this interesting image. Maybe IPad is more sleek and has that Apple brand on it, you know - the one you overpay for. But its capabilities date back to 2003.

Click the image to enlarge.