Newton, I and Bangalore Traffic
If jokes on Bangalore traffic were to be sequentially arranged, they could touch the moon and come back. People graduate from frustration to acceptance, almost like it is an organ inside their body. I have moved a step further. First, I was philosophical that there are powers beyond me that control the universe, and Bangalore traffic. Then the James Webb Telescope hit me, physics-cally . The famed telescope replacing Hubble travelled 1.6 million kms distance from earth over a six-month journey and was on schedule with its complex deployment sequence. My journey to office over a 11.5 kms distance has even Google Maps’ hard-tested algorithms apologizing for their ‘estimated’ time of arrival. And the quest began. Defying Newton Imagine Newton sitting under the apple tree and is hit by an apple. My personal view, it was perhaps not the first apple that made him discover the theory of gravity. There must have been few hitting him over a period of time, and he would theor...