Thursday, April 28, 2011

Street lights...

Its very strange to find reasons that lie behind everything... even street lights...


Why people prefer yellow color emitting lights?
- I came to know that our eyes are very active in yellow region of Visible spectrum... thats the reason they put yellow lights...

cheers to thinkers..!


photo courtesy:http://greennewshourly.com/

Monday, April 25, 2011

Wierd thought...

I got a wierd thought after i felt lonely when my friend left to visit his father... we need others to share our experiences, feelings... and somewhere i read a perfect partner is one who can understand the differences between them and not similar thinking person... so whats this idea all about..?

There came an incredible thought as everyone says... that at the point of creation of universe there is only energy..which got divided into matter and antimatter... imagine in a way "Nature loves symmetry".. which means a lot... may be symmetry about a line, point etc..

I kept thinking and i felt nature is symmetric around point...

positron - electron
light - dark
truth - lie
positive - negative

if we go on..

matter - anti matter

and i think there might be even

positive energy - negative energy
gravity - anti gravity
positive density - negative density
positive time - negative time

call me crazy, but i think there is a lot to discover...

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Why do Golf balls have dimples..?

Basically, when there is a flow over some body like sphere, at some point of velocity, there is separation of the boundary layer. This results in eddies in the wake region. This increases the drag on the ball. When the dimples are present, the fluid boundary layer is in better adhesion with the ball as the flow becomes Turbulent due to dimples. If the ball is hit with a spin, these dimples scoop up the air to the rear reducing the drag even more and also generates lift force on the ball, making it to travel even more distance.





image courtesy: http://www.aerospaceweb.org

Why Gear-Ratio will never be an integer..?

Gear ratio: Its the ratio of number of teeth of one gear (pinion) to the other gear.

Generally, wherever you see the ratio is never be an integer. Suppose one gear tooth is bigger and the groove on the other gear is smaller. Then, if the gear ratio is an integer, after EVERY specific number of rotations, the bigger tooth will become the matching tooth of smaller groove which results in excessive stress and finally results in the failure of the material.



image courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/

How can we create Micro-Gravity room ?

This is actually done by some researchers. They took a plane and after reaching sufficient height, the plane will be driven at an angle from the horizontal, towards the earth, with some acceleration. This acceleration should be such that the component of it, almost balances the gravity. This can be done only for few seconds. Hence the plane is driven in a curve, similar to that of sine wave, to get the micro-gravity situations repeatedly.





So the course of the plane is a series of take off and landing, in the midair.
* The photographs used is just to explain the procedure.

image courtesy: http://www.airliners.net/

Why brain surface has grooves and bumps ?

When you see a picture of the brain you probably think of a wrinkled gray blob. Well, the wrinkles are called cortex and it is where the majority of brain cells or neurons reside. This is wrinkled so as to increase the surface area within the limited space to accommodate more neurons, which is basically Charles Darwin theory, which is struggling to be the best, new generations with more talent stuff. Amazing isn't it?

Monday, March 28, 2011

Why almost 75% of brain is water?

Possible reasons:

1. Brain works continuously and hence needs more energy and also electrolytes for producing electric impulses. Fluid (blood/water) is the only medium to transport energy, electrolytes in our body.



2. During the function, brain produces approximately 20 watts of energy everyday. There should be some way of removing that heat. Also brain has so many grooves, patterns on it making the surface area of brain bigger. In addition to this, fluid supports in removing the heat.