CULTURAL QA03-2021-14 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 Can you tell about ( Mooka Kavi Acharya )? A1 cnu pne <[email protected]> 17 Mar 2021 in today groupposting. There lived a man in kAnchIpuram, who was speechimpaired from birth. He was regularly visiting ‘kAmAkshi’ temple and was prostratingbefore the goddess. One dayHe saw the lips of the goddess and after that he started to speakand wrote a work called ‘mooka pancha sati’ or five hundred slokas in praise ofthe goddess. The word ‘mooka’ means ‘a person who cannot speak’ in Sanskrit,hence his name remained as ‘mooka kavi’. This ‘mooka kavi’ was one ofthe AchAryAs of the kAnchI kAmakotI peetam and was called as mooka sankara. ( Mooka Shankarendra Saraswathi, the 20th Shankaracharya of the KanchiKamakoti Peetham). The date of his becoming the AchArya is approximately stated as 398 A.D.and he attained siddhi at 437 A.D. His work ‘mooka panca sati’ has fivesections Q2 What do you value most in your life and why? A2 Gurmeet Bishnoi November14-2020Lives in India (1996–present) Once a person went to the bank to withdraw some money. He had withdrawn one lakh and forty thousand rupees. But cashier gave himone lakh and sixty thousand. He knew it but he kept the money silently, giving theimpression that he did not count the money. Whether he had any fault in it or not, but when he kept the money in thebag, he started to fumble with 20,000 extra rupees. Once it came in his mind to return the surplus money but the secondmoment he thought that when I accidentally make more payments to someone thenwho comes to return me ??? His restlessness was increasing. Suddenly he took out twenty thousandrupees from the bag and put it in his pocket and walked towards the bank. The cashier breathed peacefullyafter receiving the money. Giving the customer a note of one thousand rupees from his pocket and said, Cashier : Thank you very much brother! Today bring sweets for thechildren. Please don't refuse. Customer : Brother, I am thankful to you and today I will also distributeyou all sweets. Cashier : why are you thanking and in what happiness are you givingsweets? Customer : Thankful that theaffair of twenty thousand gave me an opportunity to self-assess. If you had not made this mistake, I would not have gotinto a duality, nor would I have overcome my greed. It was a difficult task. Myselfcontrol made me and I realized it. Thank you for this rare opportunity. Que : What do you value most in your life? Ans : Honesty. There is no prize for honesty, but honesty is a huge prizein itself. It is not normal to control your greed. Such opportunities are alsofortunate in life. Honesty gives a peaceful sleep. Q3 Why is owl known as the vaahana of goddess Lakshmi in Hinduhistory? A3 Amartya Mitra[Noyon]12-3-2021 Once upon a time, Goddess Lakshmi, spouse of Lord Vishnu and matron offortune and wealth, desired for a Vahana. She saw all the gods and goddesseshave a vahana. But shealways had to borrow Garuda from her husband to roam! This made herdisappointed. She is the queen of Vaikuntha! How can she doesn'thave her own mount! She was thinking this all her way on heaven, and she decided the first creature shewill see now, she will make that her mount! Lord Indra was crossing over from that way. And he was told by his guruBrihaspati, that today he will get chance to have lakshmi (wealth) with himalways. He will never have to ask Kubera for money any more. Thus he was roaming in the streetof heaven on elephant king Airavata looking for Lakshmi and he saw goddessLakshmi coming . He thought this is the chance he will capture Lakshmi and he will lock her inAmaravati. May be this is what his guru tried to indicate. So he grabbed hissword and left his mount aside and came before lakshmi to capture her! Lakshmi than saw Indra, thefirst person she saw infront of her on her way. And when Indra sawLakshmi- blazing like golden flower, like thosand suns have came before him andhe became blind! Lakshmi smiled and said to Indra ,' you are afool, how can you think you can bound me! But, I have decided that the firstcreature i will see in my way, will make it my mount. Than you will be mount from now on. Thats how you will never have toloose me again and I will have my desired mount!' Lakshmi touched Indra and theblind thousand eyed Indra became thousand feathered Ulluka (owl). The gods came to see this, and prayed to Lakshmifor their king. If their king become a bird, who will rule now? Lakshmi said, 'in daytime hewill rule on heaven, and in night he will be my Vahana.' Thats how Lakshmi got her vahana- an owl. Who is none but Indra himself. - folk tale from Lakshmi Charitra (bengali saga of the glory of Lakshmi).||Jay Mahalakshmi Padmasundari|| Q4 Can you tell some interesting things? A4 First, If you have evercome across someone who eats a razor blade, it is true that it is a real razor.No need to worry because basically the human stomach has a high level ofacidity and can destroy a razor in 2 hours. But it applies to people who are used to eating it. 2. Many people think that ourmain source of oxygen is forests.In fact, the marineorganisms of all the oceans, including plankton and seaweeds, produce more thanhalf of the oxygen in the atmosphere. 3. Several types of marine animals such as sea turtles and salmon, are able to detect the earth'smagnetic field to direct themselves. That's why they always findtheir way home. Unless they are caught by fishing vessels. 4. Even though from afar the clouds appear to be floating and light likecotton, they actuallyweigh thousands of tons. 5. Soil may look inanimate, even though in 1 tablespoon live millions ofmicroorganisms. 6. Believe it or not, the mouse laughs when tickled. 7. Bananas contain radioactivepotassium, but don't worry, because humans need 10 million bananasat a time to die from radiation. Q5 What are some of the things that physicists know, but mostpeople don't? A6-1 Gregory Benson, Master of Science Geology, University ofArizona (1981) 16-3-2021 I'm not a physicist, so the simple fact that I know something aboutphysics kind of disqualifies me to answer from either perspective.Overlookingthe fact that non-physicists can know stuff about physics… Many non-physicists do not knowthat physicists do not understand what “Dark Matter" or “Dark Energy"really is. These are place-keeper terms that embody simple assumptions that may notbe valid. They may notactually be “dark". They may not actually be “matter" or“energy". We assume that anything that manifests as agravitational attraction must have mass. We assume anything that manifests asacceleration must be energy. But you know what they say about Ass-U-Me… These phenomena may be currentlyunknown properties of space-time “curvature" that have no material presence at all, though they haveobservable effects upon matter. Maybe the expansion of the universe is anillusion caused by the stretching of the intervening space by the gravity ofgalaxies “on the other side". Maybe the “excess" gravity that appearsto hold galaxies together “too tightly" is an unknown quirk ofgravitational lensing that causes galaxies to appear smaller than they reallyare, like objects in a car's side mirrors where “objects are larger than theyappear". The fact is, we don't know the answers…but we'll figure it outeventually. 2 BillJones, MA Physics, Johns Hopkins University (1983) Answered October 17, 2018 Here’s one, among a ton of them. I just find this one fun. Wave interference seems to mostlike this esoteric thing that only eggheads in laboratories can ever see. Not true at all if you know where to look,which you know by knowing what to look for and what makes it evident, which isfrom knowing its physics. Where to see it. Neon signs hanging in windows.Look at them. Prefereably but not always, against a dark background. Lookparticularly at those signs that are clear when not on, and red or blue when on. Actually, don’t look at thetube itself. Look at its reflection in the glass. You’ll see little striationsalong the image. That’s because either the two reflections of the tube (and itslight, of course), one from the near side and the other from the far side ofthe window take different paths to your eye depending on the viewing angle. So,as you move along the image, you see the diffraction pattern as softlysuperimposed stripes. This is visible because of the two (or more, maybe thewindow has a thin coating on it) reflections, and because the light from theglowing gas in the tube is both somewhat monochromatic and slightly coherent.Once you know this and where to look for it, you practically can’t escape it. Colored black animals. Someanimals have very fine body hair, and some have very smooth hairs with thin coatings. Result? Wave interference. Since animals are usuallyviewed in natural light, like outdoors, sharp distinctions like neonsigns in windows are not usually seen. But the whole animal can take on a sortof glow on top its black color, and that color can be anything. My dog, whenclean, looks green or blue and somtimes yellowsh. It’s obvious she’s stillblack, but the shimmer is still there. It changes with view angle. Green and blue puzzle-likepatterns on some glass items viewed in a mercury lamp. This one isn’t everywhere. Sources of fairly unmolested mercuryvapor emission are things like germicidal lamps and sunlamps. They emit severalfairly narrow bands of light, mercury emissions, that usually combine to lookbluish white. But some glass items, like patio doors, have plastic coatings onthem that act to reduce sunlight that enters a room. This coating is not thatcarefully controlled on some panes of glass, and its thickness varies all overthe place. This,through wave interference, reflects different ratios of theblue and green wavelengths of mercury (and the others, but they’re not dominantand the red is often smeared in incandescence of the hot lamp components)depending on what part of the glass is in your view. Thus a pattern outlined inblue and green. It can be very intricate. This one you can see any time.The pattern in deposited or etched aluminum on the (protected usually) surfaces of CDs and DVDs have featuredimensions that are a little larger than the wavelength of red light, and theyare somewhat regular. This makes a great diffraction grating, and you can seethe colors that light is split into by it. You can even look at vapor lamps andsort of analyze what is in the lamp using them. If you deal with integrated circuit chips, you can see both diffractiongrating efffects because of the regular tiny features on them and, under amicroscope, colored regions (they are all just clear glass or its equivalent)that take on their colors due to wave interference between the near and farsurfaces of the glass coatings that are very close to each other. If you areviewing with a video camera, turn up the color saturation and it’s prettyvivid. These are just a few in this category. And, since physics studies - well- all physical things, there are a lot of categories. Many of these things, once youstart seeing them in real life, can suggest ways to measure stuff that’sotherwise pretty hard to measure. That’s how I eat. 3 Jeff Templon, Physicist, specialization subatomic experiments,former Professor. 16-3-201 Probably a lot of things (I like Walter McBride’s answer!) My candidate is that some thingsreally are black and white. Let me explain. I often say “0% and 100% don’t exist in the real world”. With theexception of dying .. sofar we don’t know any cases of people not having died (except in legends). A common example recently is ofpeople demanding that brand X of vaccine is proven to be 100% safe. You can’tdo that without testing it on everyperson on the planet (come to think of it, all future people as well!) In areas studied by physiciststhough, some things really are black and white. For example that objects having mass never reach or exceed the speed oflight. Momentum is alwaysconserved. You never have half an electron. It may well be that some ofthese “laws” get modified in the future when we have new data for some new,never-before-reached extreme situation. As far as we know today though, thesethings are 100% true, absolute. QA except 1 are based on Quoradigest to me on 16-03 - 2021. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 17-3-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1508241949.1542854.1615974095911%40mail.yahoo.com.
