Interesting Facts & Stats about the World.

1) 13 million hectares of Forest is lost every year from our planet.
Though the UN's last year's number is smaller but still Forests of the size of Panama is lost in a year.

From 1990 to 2015 we humans have galloped 3% of Forest area from the planet.

2) Government's transport Infrastructure planning is measured by Rural Access Index which is percentage of Rural population living within 2km of a road in good condition.

India's Rural Access Index is 17%

China is at 32%

3) One third of worlds energy is consumed by the food sector and one third of the food produced in the world is wasted.

Even if a quarter of the wasted food reaches the hungry, 870 million people will be fed.

One more fact about food wastage: 

1500 calories of food per person per day is wasted in the high income countries (formerly termed as Developed countries by WB) of North America, East Asia and Pacific.

Note: India is categorized as a lower income country.

4) Individual internet usage as a % of population is highest in world in Iceland at 98%.

In India it is 18%.

And in Pakistan it is 14%..

Funny..nice imagination..

As you sow, so shall you reap...
     Look at these pictures and you'll feel these animals telling us the same..

God's particle: The journey



 

Friends have a look at this beautiful journey of the Discovery of the God's particle, the Higg's Boson.

 

The Nobel Prize for Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to Belgian Francois Englert and British Peter Higgs for the theorotical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of the mass of subatomic particles and which was confirmed by the discovery of the fundamental particle by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider 

 

 

Francois Englert
 

Peter Higgs
 

On July 5 2012, Scientists working with the data from the ongoing experiments at the LHC announced the dicovery of a new particle "consistent with" the Higgs boson -- a subatomic particle
also colloquially referred to as the "God particle." After years of design and construction, the LHC first sent protons around its 27 kilometer (17 mile) underground tunnel in 2008. Four years later, the LHC's role in the discovery of the Higgs boson provides a final missing piece for the Standard Model of Particle Physics, a piece that may explain how otherwise massless subatomic particles can acquire mass. Gathered here are images from the construction of the massive $4-billion-dollar machine that allowed us peer so closely into the subatomic world.

Just go through this extra ordinary journey and I know, everyone will appreciate atleast the spirit of hard-work and consistently following one's dreams, if not the physics behind the God's particle. The cpation under each image explains it.

 

Excavation and the Construction in the ATLAS cavern. This cavern eventually housed the ATLAS experiment, part of the LHC at CERN. February 22, 2000.

The huge ATLAS Toroid Magnet End-Cap A is transported between building 180 to ATLAS point 1 on May 29, 2007.

View of the Compact Muon Solenoid cavern with its impressive dimensions: 53 meters long,
27 meters wide and 24 meters high.

In order for technicians to get around the 27-km tunnel that houses the LHC, various methods of transportation were employed. October 24, 2005.

Placing the Tracker inside the Compact Muon Solenoid (the tracker is still wrapped from its transport), on December 14, 2007.

 

View of Compact Muon Solenoid detector assembly in late 2007.

One of the end-cap calorimeters for the ATLAS experiment is moved using a set of rails.
This calorimeter measures the energy of particles produced close to the axis of the beam when two protons collide. It is kept cool inside a cryostat to allow the detector to work at maximum efficiency. February 16, 2007.

 

The first half of the Compact Muon Solenoid inner tracker barrel seen in this image consisting of three layers of silicon modules placed at the center of the CMS experiment. Laying close to the interaction point of the 14 TeV proton-proton collisions, the silicon used here must be able to survive high doses of radiation and a powerful magnetic field without damage. October 19, 2006.

One module of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) photon spectrometer. There are 3,584 lead tungstate crystals on the first module for the ALICE photon spectrometer. Lead tungstate crystals have the optical transparency of glass combined with much higher density and can serve as scintillators, lighting up when struck by an incoming particle.

Integration of the ALICE experiment's inner tracker in 2007.

 

The globe of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, illuminated outside Geneva, Switzerland, on March 30, 2010.

Image made available by CERN shows a typical candidate event including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by red towers) is measured in the Compact Muon Solenoid electromagnetic calorimeter.
The yellow lines are the measured tracks of other particles produced in the collision.
The pale blue volume shows the CMS crystal calorimeter barrel. 
Cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle on July 4, 2012, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson, popularly known as the "God particle", that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape.

Incredible!!!
Disclaimer: The pictures are downloaded from the internet and is neither violation of any copyright nor any confidential information. Just tried to collect the pictures and see how wonderful they look together.Enjoy.....


Life.. Even naming your child is so simple in India.

In my previous post I told you how easily we could name my daughter Srushti..
But thats not so easy everywhere in the world.

In Denmark if you want to name your child, you can select the name only from an approved list of names which has around 7000 names in it. If you want to name your child with any name out of the list, you have to get it approved from the church and the government.

In China they have many characters in their script (nearly 70000 of them) but you can name your child using only those characters that can be entered in a computer. And also it is not considered right to name the child by the names of ancient heroes and kings.

New zealand has a list of banned names.

Sweden and Norway also has regulations on the name of the new born.

Germany has a list of approved names for both girls and boys and any name out of the list needs an approval by the Standesamt. The German law has two conditions for the name of a child: 1) The name of the child must reflect the sex of the child and 2) It must  not endanger the well-being of the child.

Many countries have a justification for the bans and regualtions, that they are made to ease the lives of the children after they grow up and for their well being. Some countries have such bans to avoid the troubles that surface out in government databases due to excessively long or awkward names.

I do not at all mean that these rules and regulations are troublesome. But I was surprised that naming a child is also such a big deal out of the house. In side the house though it is always a big deal. So many names, suggestions and meanings and you can pick only one. In my case I felt that I will have different names for my daughter and change the name after regular intervals. I liked the names Saanvi and Geet, sister suggested Srushti and my father liked Srushti. Finally she became Srushti Vipulraj Jain.

                                                                 My sweety Srushti

A new Life..makes life more beautiful..

 Life has gifted me the most treasurable gift ever :: My Daughter..
Friends no other feeling or emotion in the world can overtake the feeling of joy you experience seeing a new born baby.
    Seeing the journey of my wife for those Nine months made me realise the pain and hardships my mother would have undergone to bring me to life. And that is the only reason why a Mother is the real form of God for us. It is my request to everyone that please your parents, make them smile and you don't need to go to the temples for a ticket to the heavens. I do not at all mean that we must not visit temples but I just want to say that God is residing in ur parents asking us to serve him in the easiest way.
   We named my daughter Srushti. Which means the creation. The name was chosen by my Sister and approved by my Father. And every moment with her is just beautiful. She turned six months on 16th. I just love her lovely dimples. Everyone says she looks like me. I wonder one day she'll be reading this blog with those cute little dimples sitting on her cheeks. Love you. Love your smile Srushti.

 

Life: It just keeps on flowing.

          I am a married man (rather boy) now.For all who attended the ceremony thank u very much..And those who could not make it, we really missed u. I went to Jammu and Kashmir for my honeymoon and it was an awesome holiday.Sonal, my wife is an extra ordinarily innocent person with a very pure heart and a very friendly nature. Shes gelled very well with my family. And I am extremely glad to experience the new atmosphere in my house. Now that I have settled in my new life I get a lot of time to read and watch new things and know more about this wonderful world.
Actually a documentary moved me today.::: The 11th Hour by Leonardo de Caprio.
         The movie is about the ecological changes taking place due to Human nonsense. It includes a series of interviews of experts from various fields about Ecosystem - the damage done and various ways to prevent it further. Friends our ecosystem is under terrefic stress thanks to the wastes we are generating along with many different actions which do not at all seem bothered about our nature.
         It will cost a whopping 35 Trillion Dollars a year to do what our trees are doing free for us (Converting CO2 to Oxygen).And just to compare, the total annual Produce of all the countries combined will add up to only 18 Trillion Dollars. This means it is impossible for us to do without trees and it will get tougher as the number of trees come down.
         Some scientists say that even if all the Ice in Arctic melts it wont cause the whole world to drown.But a very important role that is played by the Arctic ice is that of reflecting back the heat from our planet which is getting defeated with every chunk of ice melting and this will lead to an exponential temp rise of our planet in turn.
         It is also approximated that a large tree can store upto 57000 gallon of water acting like a sponge in case of floods.So imagine with every tree cut down this 57000 Gallon of water will gush down in floods destroying more homes and ultimately get drained to the ocean.
         The crux behind discussing all this here is that we cannot just sit aside and watch our planet become a trash can of diseases and misery. We have to act. Each and everyone of us. The governments talking of some protocols and treaties are never going to be completely successful because thier role is always attached to a more heavier string called economy. So individual actions will have to drive this process of preventing further damage leave aside turning things around. As for my part to start with I have renounced the use of poly bags and plastic (crushable) bottles completely and slowly will take steps further to reduce my consumption of oil (crude or fuel oil) and plastic. Every one of you might be having some ideas as to what we can do individually or together. Please share it with me here or on my Facebook profile and we'll spread it further. Till then Good Night. Keep living.