Singularity

God's Own Equation

2007-10-31T11:43:00.000-07:00

“Today I will explain everything. I will explain the existence of the tiniest particle and of the greatest bodies of the universe. I have unified all the fundamental forces and every physical phenomenon can now be explained.” And with this Professor Vyas raised his hands in air as if he was announcing his equivalence with the almighty.

This was the most awaited event for the entire scientific community. Professor Vyas claimed that his theory can explain every physical phenomenon-“Theory of Everything”. Today he was going to give a presentation on his theory to an audience packed with the most intellectual minds of the world.

This was not much of a surprise for those who knew Professor Vyas. He was a child prodigy. He had mastered nearly all the disciplines of mathematics and physics by the age of 23. And after dedicating 10 years exclusively to theoretical physics, he came up with the theory of everything.

Though people said that he was god gifted, he never believed in god. He was considered as an atheist and a stubborn man by his peers.

Professor Vyas continued, “My equation is stable and will give finite results. This equation is the result of my supreme intellect and now future can be defined.”

With this he began his presentation. Equations started to float around as many intellects kept wondering that how a man can single handedly come up with these mighty equations.

And in the end came the final equation. Everybody was spell bounded. It was perfect.

“Any questions”, asked Professor Vyas with that smile of ultimate satisfaction.

“Sir, can your theory stand up to experimental scrutiny?” asked a young man who was sitting in the last row.

Professor Vyas was shocked. “What?? There is no such device to test it. I have demonstrated that my equation is stable. Till now, no theory has reached up to this level. Your question is invalid.”

“But I do have a device sir.” The young man took out a device from his bag which resembled a laptop.

“Sir, I have made a simulator. You can enter the values for all the constants and variables in it and this simulator will simulate the entire process from the creation of the universe to the present.”

Professor Vyas laughed at this as he said, “So, you think your machine with some bits and bytes will simulate the universe!!! So, funny!!”

“Sir, but there is no harm in testing.”, said the young man.

“Ok, as you wish”

The device had a screen and a keyboard just like a laptop, but certainly it was not a laptop. It had various unknown things attached to it. Professor Vyas entered his equation and all other values in the simulator. Though there were some other fields which were left blank as Professor Vyas had nothing to enter into it.

It was a jaw opening view for the entire audience. The simulator was also perfect. One of its columns calculated all the values at enormous speed while the other one was giving a streaming pictorial view of the creation of the universe. The Equation of Professor Vyas seemed perfect. The creation of stars and galaxies was happening based on the equation defined by Professor Vyas.

“You see, my equation is perfect.”, said Professor Vyas.

“But, there is a problem sir. It seems that there is no life on earth.”

“What”, exclaimed Professor Vyas?

The young man was right. Earth had no life.

“See young man, my equation has nothing to do with life.”

“But sir, life began on earth in perfect conditions which were created by perfect integration and disintegration of atoms. So, your theory comes in the scenario. But, still we can notice nothing on earth!”, said the young man.

Professor Vyas was amazed. His equation missed to explain some phenomenon. Equally amazed was the audience at the power and the intellect of the man and his machine.

Everybody started asking questions to the young man. But he answered none of them. He peacefully went away at the end of the day. That man was never found again.

The world was amazed. Some said that he was god himself and it was his miracle that day. Professor Vyas’s equation became yet another issue for the scientific community.

But Professor Vyas had realized something. He didn’t knew whether that man was god or an extraordinary being with extraordinary intelligence. But what he realized that equations can never create life. No equation can parallel god’s own equation. His equation failed on a simulator. But the experimental scrutiny of god’s equation is what we see around us!

Life is god’s creation. God is the truth. And if god is unexplained, one would never find the ultimate truth. He created us and we created science. Science can take us to the penultimate, but the ultimate would ever be reserved for god.

Today Professor Vyas is no more an atheist. He still works to give better understanding of nature through science. Though he still wonders what that simulator was!!!

Autobiography

2007-10-27T04:17:00.000-07:00

“My life has been special. People should know about it. I should write an autobiography.”

This is one thought which is shared by many of us. However, one has to be successful in his life to entertain the reader.

Autobiographies are not meant to be written by an ordinary man.

It is said that everybody is not here to create a difference. So, better be ensured to create a difference before writing an autobiography.

What difference? No bounds. Anything.

Walking nude on the street will give you the right to write an autobiography.

No, I am not frustrated.

I just had these thoughts when somebody asked me to write an autobiography.

I would really like to write an autobiography but I have not created that difference so that my life can be enjoyed along with a coffee at a bookstore.

The next day somebody else asked me to write an autobiography.

“Who will read it??” I asked

“Everybody yaar, everybody! You should write about your sufferings and then people will know about our evil system, our evil society…….”

“It’s not always evil. It happened with me” I said

“To Kya Hua?.At least one thing would be exposed. What yaar? You have suffered so much. You should get something for that.”

Is this the difference? “Pain”

Somebody said, “Dard kaun batega yaar. Wo to bechne se bhi nahi bikata”

Not Really.

“Dard bhi bikata hai”

Singularity-Existence of God-Before I Continue...

2007-07-16T04:00:00.000-07:00

“A four-dimensional real vector space equipped with a nondegenerate, symmetric bilinear form with signature.”
This is one of the “leave me alone” statements. If you will just say leave me alone to someone, then in all probability you would be forced to tell the reason that why you should be left alone. So, it’s better to say leave me alone in a different way!
However, a physicist would be glad to screw you for this “leave me alone” statement especially when you will say that these statements would finally prove the existence of god!
Billions of people believe that god exists. And many would really not like someone to prove it. I am one of them.
Then what am I doing in this blog???
I also believe that god exists but what I want to show here is that he is right here in front of our eyes. We just need to have a scientific view!
But then is it necessary to go through those complex “leave me alone” statements to see god?
Yes, it is. I don’t want to give any zany idea. It’s all scientific and hence very much believable.
I have been into cosmology and quantum physics for quite a time but I was never with a mission to prove the existence of god. But my further study into these two subjects made me realize that what physicists call as the “Theory of Everything” is nothing but the “Theory of God” (god exists in everything!)

We have understood most of the laws of nature through science and if god created the nature then why can’t science tell us anything about the creator? It can. Infact, it has!
But we can’t accept this as there is no equation in science which ends up with something like “= GOD”. Truly saying, it’s all upon our realization. By this I don’t want to say that all physicists should change their profession! Instead they should continue with their work so that we can see god and his miracles!!!
Don’t think that my thoughts are influenced by churches or temples. It’s awkward to say that gods have their territories bounded by borders. This is nothing but a stupid and the most idiotic thought of humans. By all this we are just saying that god is also an egoist.
Why will ever want to popularize his name??? But a discussion on this topic is useless.
Many will never understand this.
So, if science can make us realize us the eternal truth then so be it. I will continue with this series with my next post. Till then get some air with those breathing instruments.
And by the way, the “leave me alone” statement was the definition of Minkowski Space

Singularity-Existence of God-Part III

2007-07-11T03:36:00.000-07:00

This time we would be going to the quantum world. However, this journey would not be easy because the air inside this world is saturated with numbers and equations. Those who are not comfortable with it will suffocate to death. Even those who love it would be having some breathing problems!
But, don’t worry. There are some who provide breathing instruments. Stephen Hawking is one of them. His book entitled Theory of Everything is pretty cool for those who normally will suffocate to death in this world. Though I must say that he not only provides those breathing instruments but is also among those who create that air!!!
So, the above statements might have cleared that I would not be teaching quantum physics here. What I want to show that scientists are only talking about god when they speak about theory of everything!
Ok, back to our discussion.
The standard model gave us the understanding of particle interaction by uniting three fundamental forces-strong, electromagnetic and weak. However, the gravitational force was still missing. So, we entered into quantum gravity. And this is what theory of everything is all about-unification of quantum mechanics with gravity.
Unfortunately, here the quantum world becomes equivalent to the problem world!
The unification of quantum mechanics with gravity leads us into renormalization problem where the particle interaction results into infinite values which are not so easy to be cancelled mathematically. WTF!!! This should be your reaction if you are new to this world. What the hell is renormalization???
For understanding renormalization, we need to have an understanding of Perturbation Theory. In Perturbation theory, we need to find an approximate solution to a problem which cannot be solved exactly. Perturbation theory is applicable if the problem can be formulated by adding a "small" term to the mathematical description of the exactly solvable problem.This will give us the desired solution in power series.

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I have given a very simple example of the application of Perturbation theory. I will not go in details of that. I will give its significance in renormalization problem and how it was kicked out in quantum gravity.
Getting suffocated? Don’t panic. You have those breathing instruments. Get some air and come back to this world. Strings are not far away!!!

Singularity-Existence of God- Part II

2007-07-05T13:33:00.000-07:00

Ok, back to our discussion.
Many of us believe that god does exist and there is no need to prove his existence. It’s all upon our faith. But, what if we all can see him everyday and that too without any doubts or objections by our scientific community. This might sound weird for many. But, believe me there is nothing weird in it. What all it requires is some understanding of science, an open mind and faith in god. Till now, it has all been in words, but soon it will be in equations. It’s necessary for me to include equations because without them our scientific community will get enough reasons to question our reasoning!
Let us begin with the universe. Einstein had a deterministic view regarding the universe as he believed that every phenomenon in the universe can be explained and there is nothing which is random or which can’t be explained. Moreover, Einstein also believed that the universe is static and that’s why he introduced the cosmological constant in his field equations.

Rμν - ½ Rμν + Λg μν = 8 ПTμν

Here, Λ represents the cosmological constant. However, an observation through Hubble telescope confirmed that the galaxies were infact receding and hence the universe was not static. It was no less than a shock for Einstein.

Thereafter, Λ was set to zero for all other applications. But, from the observations made in the past 10-15 years, the cosmological constant is not always taken as zero.
You might be thinking that why the hell I have started with such a terrorizing equation.
The reason is that the cosmological constant will play a vital role in our coming discussions and hence it needed a proper introduction here. I suggest leaving the equation for now. I will surely explain it and its solutions after we get into Minkowski space and Riemann’s geometry.
I understand it’s already getting complex but that’s how we have to go if we want to see god! (And in the end you will say “what man, you screwed our time! It was so simple!)
Ok, take a break for now but don’t forget the cosmological constant and from where it came. We will move to an altogether different world in our next discussion.

Singularity: Existence of God-Part I

2007-07-01T11:57:00.000-07:00

One day I went to my relative’s house and saw that my 5 yr old cousin was trying to push a wall with all his strength. I asked him why he was doing so and he replied that he was no less than superman and that all physical things can be destroyed or molded just by his muscle power.
I tried to explain him that this is not possible but he never gave up during my half an hour stay there.
Unfortunately, some of our great minds are doing the same. The only difference is that they are not pushing a wall but they are trying to explain EVERTHING.
Before i continue, i would like to say that i have always been someone who looks for an explanation behind every phenomenon. That does not mean that i don't believe in god. For me, god is someone who is always with us and is ever ready to help us in our hard times (Human life is not a phenomenon!!).
However,now i feel that science has unknowingly proved the existence of god(weird?no, it's true!) and the very thought that we can explain everything is far from reality.
I will not give a philosophical explanation for the above statement but rather an explanation which would be scientific and obviously logical i.e i will show how science has proved the existence of god.
This is my first blog in this series. My next blog will continue this discussion until we will stop at the point when we will realize that god not only plays dice but also solitaire!!!

Comparing the Incomparable?!?-Part II

2007-06-28T03:41:00.000-07:00

Origin, Organization, Depth and Magnitude:
There are no doubts about origin of LOTR. A hyper-imaginative work of J.R.R Tolkein.
But many of us don’t know much about Mahabharata.The text was originally 8,800 verses when it was composed by Vyasa and was known as the Jaya (Victory), which later became 24,000 verses in the Bharata recited by Vaisampayana, and finally over 90,000 verses in the Mahabharata recited by Ugrasravas.
Quite a difference! The book LOTR is organized into three chapters- Fellowship of the Ring, The Twin Towers and Return of the King. However, this is only about the third age which is the age of rise of hobbits. There is a description of two ages before the third age.
Mahabharata is mainly divided into 18 parvas:
Adi-parva :Introduction, birth and upbringing of the princes.
Sabha-parva :Life at the court, the game of dice, and the exile of the Pandavas. Maya Danava erects the palace and court (sabha), at Indraprastha.
Aranyaka-parva (also Vanaparva, Aranyaparva):The twelve years in exile in the forest.
Virata-parva :The year in exile spent at the court of Virata.
Udyoga-parva :Preparations for war.
Bhishma-parva :The first part of the great battle, with Bhishma as commander for the Kauravas.
Drona-parva :The battle continues, with Drona as commander.
Karna-parva :The battle again, with Karna as commander.
Shalya-parva :The last part of the battle, with Shalya as commander.
Sauptika-parva :How Ashvattama and the remaining Kauravas killed the Pandava army in their sleep
Stri-parva :Gandhari and the other women (stri) lament the dead.
Shanti-parva :The crowning of Yudhisthira, and his instructions from Bhishma
Anusasana-parva :The final instructions (anusasana) from Bhishma.
Ashvamedhika-parva :The royal ceremony of the ashvamedha conducted by Yudhisthira.
Ashramavasika-parva :Dhritarashtra, Gandhari and Kunti leave for an ashram, and eventual death in the forest.
Mausala-parva :The infighting between the Yadavas with maces (mausala).
Mahaprasthanika-parva :The first part of the path to death (mahaprasthana "great journey") of Yudhisthira and his brothers.
Svargarohana-parva :The Pandavas return to the spiritual world (svarga).
Harivamsa-parva :Life of Krishna.
Bhagwad Gita is separately covered in Anusasana parva
So, is there a need for any other comparison? I will just give some facts which will put an end to all the comparisons
Mahabharata is roughly 10 times the size of the Iliad and Odyssy taken together, and about 4 times the size of the Ramayana.
18 books, 18 chapters of the Bhagavadgita and the Narayaniya each, corresponding to the 18 days of the battle and the 18 armies.
The English Translation of first 5 books (parvas) has been completed accounting for more than 5000 pages.
And finally…..
With more than 74,000 verses, long prose passages, and some 1.8 million words in total, Mahabharata is one of the longest epic poems in the world.
LOTR is a great work and I truly appreciate it. I accept the fact that it is a wonder creation by J.R.R Tolkein and I am myself a big fan of LOTR. I don’t have any collection of movies but I got a DVD of this trilogy.
However, comparing it to Mahabharata is obviously a joke. Mahabharata has been long known whereas LOTR came into limelight only after the movies.
Some people are now writing Mahabharata in a style in which LOTR has been written. This is certainly not at all required. Surprisingly, somebody has already written Ramayana in that style. It is a collection of 5 books starting from Prince of Ayodhya and ending at King of Ayodhya. The author might have felt that the younger generation should be told about Ramayana in their style. But this is not the correct way. Instead we all should know about our texts and there should be no need to rewrite them in a fancy style.
I would just like to end this blog with one quotation from the beginning of the first parva of Mahabharata:
"What is found here, may be found elsewhere. What is not found here, will not be found elsewhere."

Comparing the Incomparable?!?-Part I

2007-06-28T03:14:00.000-07:00

People crack a joke and they know that they are joking because that’s what cracking a joke means. However, sometimes people crack a joke and they think that they are not joking.
Many a times I have encountered the latter situation. But, this time the latter situation became so hilarious that you can’t stop laughing days and nights together.
I was going through some books in a book store when I heard this, “Hey Man, have you read Lord of the Rings? It’s awesome man. Too Good. I have never read a fictional epic like this before. Mahabharata is nothing in front of it”
It was “THE JOKE”. How can one compare Mahabharata with Lord of the Rings? And is Mahabharata a fictional epic?
Then his friend cracked another joke, “Really Yaar. Mahabharata is nothing compared to LOTR. Mahabharata was so boring. Some Pandavas, a bunch of Kauravas, Lord Krishna and some guru’s and saint’s. They fight for a piece of land and then somebody wins… So boring… And just look at LOTR…four species, middle earth, fantasies…cool yaar…I have just seen the movie…….It’s so awesome yaar!”
It was certain that both of them had no knowledge of Mahabharata. They just might have seen some episodes of the T.V serial.
So, proving that Mahabharata is incomparable to LOTR or anything would be foolish as only ignorant people would like to compare the incomparable.
However, I soon realized that this was not considered as a joke for a section of our young society (From age group 16-24. Though many of us in this group know what the truth is.). This is especially not a joke for some of our school going readers who are very ignorant about Mahabharata. The above data reflects that I carried out a full fledged survey. However, there was no survey at all. I realized all this while I was chatting with my friends and with some people in discussion forums.
So, I have to become a foolish person (at least for this blog) as I will be comparing both the texts. Though I would not consider myself ignorant in this case as I have carried out quite a research before this comparison.
Truly saying, I am myself strongly against this comparison as comparing a religious text with a book is so very wrong. This comparison can end on the very point of origin itself. Mahabharata was created by Veda Vyasa who is regarded as the avatar of Vishnu in many Vaishnava traditions. Whereas, LOTR was created by a normal human. So, how the hell they can be compared? I raised this point a number of times. But the response which I got was, “See yaar, we respect Mahabharata. No doubts in it. What we are saying is that LOTR is so lengthy and comprehensive. What you have seen in the movie is just about the third age. There is first and second age also. There are a number of species, scripts, a detailed map, etc….So, its all about organization, depth and magnitude.”
What an ignorant mind!!!Tch, Tch…. They are mesmerized just by a fantasy. What they have overlooked is the role of Karma and Dharma in Mahabharata. But, many of those ignorant minds are not interested in truth or philosophical nature of Mahabharata. They are just looking for a logical comparison.
So, this comparison has become the need of the hour as on one hand our young society is living in such ignorance and on the other hand they call themselves the enlightened one’s of the 21st century.
I would be having an unbiased comparison based on facts and figures.

From Dark towards Light...

2007-06-16T12:07:00.001-07:00

Finally back to my blogspace after a long gap. Things have changed and so am I. My previous posts reflected what I had achieved and what I desired to achieve.
I created my blog so as to present my thoughts. However, after achieving materialistic success, I deviated from the very purpose of creating a blog and I started to describe my achievement(s).
This time I want to focus on “Singularity”. And by this I mean to say any type of singularity-mathematical, technical, astronomical or even personal.
Life Project
Singularity
Contents: Mathematical, Technical, Astronomical and Personal Singularity
Chapters: Coming Soon…..
Acknowledgement: I would sincerely like to thank “Time” for showing me the way towards singularity.

Did anybody said business?

2006-09-30T01:38:00.000-07:00

“Business, who? Me?…Na”, that was my reaction some three years ago when one of my classmate asked me that whether I would do business in my life. For many science students, this was the common reaction in school days as business was something, which was supposed to be best handled by commerce students.
Things however changed when I came across a book known as “Rich Dad Poor Dad”. According to the book, we need to make investments and grow our wealth rather than just keeping them in the bank. The idea caught me and I decided that at some point in my life, I would invest in shares. But I was completely unaware of the share market. The scrip prices on the screens of CNBC were just meaningless for me. That’s when I decided to start reading economic times. And it was then when I fell in love with business.
M & A, Inflation, Market Cap, Turnovers, Profits…. all suddenly became so exciting to me. I just loved discussing on any M & A.
A major change in my life came after I finished my survey on petrol pumps. I thought that we needed a major improvement in our petrol pumps (from now on I will call them filling stations. It’s not just a pump!) I designed a new filling station, which laid more emphasis on the convenience store rather than fuelling of the vehicle. I took this design to a major oil company, which readily accepted it. However, I gave them this design with nothing in return. (And this was intentional, as you will see later)
“My company? Is it possible?”, these ideas were now floating in my mind. But it took me another seven months to decide on this. In January 2005, I was at Indore (my native place) for my summer job at IOCL. During this time, I never missed a single episode of “The Apprentice”. This serial was also about business, project management, etc. At the same time, I was also reading the book titled “Execution” by Larry Bossidy. I got so much inspired by both these things that I finally decided to launch a company.
The company was going to be a consultancy firm along with providing software solutions for the oil industry.
I was very much ambitious and had many dreams for my company. I knew that the petrol retail industry was on a roll with the coming of private players. So, I decided to again design a new retailing system with a software, which would assist in planning of the new retail infrastructure. I took the package to the same company to which I earlier gave my retail outlet design. And as expected, they took it!
And then things started to roll. I got some people who voluntarily agreed to work for the company. In 3 months, my company expanded to 4 countries-India, Nigeria, Egypt and U.S(California). I know that this all might be sounding strange, but this is the truth!
Clients were now flowing in and we all became busy like hell. I got calls from the International IQPC conference, London and International CEO meeting.
I wanted my company to be the best. That’s why I introduced the six sigma process from the very beginning so that we don’t have any defects right from the starting. People were told about project management and different management techniques. I introduced a strategy, which we called LED(Learn, Execute and Develop) for the professional and personal growth of the people associated with the company.
One of the major oil magazines came to us to feature our company in their magazine. This all was a dream run!
However, things began to change after 6 months. I had no time and with academics going on, it was all becoming very difficult. Our quality was getting affected which was the last thing I wanted as now we were known in the market. Finally, it was decided to shut the company for certain duration.
This all was a great experience for me. I came to know how to deal with people, how to finish things in time, team work, dealing with conflicts and how to emerge as a major player in the market! There is one instance, which I still doubt whether it really happened! 6 months after the company was formed, my father told me that CNPC(Chinese National Petroleum Company) had called up and they wanted us to be their service provider!! This was a jaw opening news for me because CNPC is among the major oil companies in the world. However, I doubt whether it was really CNPC!
Though the company is not working now, but I will restart it when I will feel that the right time has come. We had to face a number of financial constraints due to which we were not able to expand as rapidly as we wanted. So, I will restart the company again when I will have a strong financial background.
Till then, we will keep meeting on this blogspace!!

Space & Oilfield Technology!

2006-08-25T07:32:00.000-07:00

Space-one topic on which I can discuss for long hours and that too without any breaks. Just a look at the night sky takes my imagination and thoughts deep into the universe.
I always wanted to be an astronaut, but life had different plans for me.
So, I finally ended up in Petroleum Engineering. And really telling, I never imagined that I would be doing this! But I have no regrets. Infact, I am totally in love with this branch. And I just love pondering on various topics of petroleum engineering.
Recently, I was going through an article in a magazine. The article was on how the oilfield technology has contributed in space exploration, like how the oilfield’s photo multiplier tube technology was used in designing the fine guidance sensor system for the Hubble space telescope. (I know that these all fancy terms are not easy to digest, but I also can’t avoid them. So if you want some more information and understanding on that so called alien terminology stated above, then you can just email me at any time to make those terms sound more human to you!) The article was interesting and what made it more interesting for me was the fusion of two of my favorites subjects- space and petroleum engineering.
Well, I am not writing this blog to tell about the contributions of the oilfield technology in space exploration, but the purpose of this blog is just to tell something opposite i.e. how the technology for space exploration can be of help in the oil industry? This question struck me while I was reading that article. At first, this seems to be very absurd and there are two reasons for it. The first is that imagining something like this seems to be illogical and the second is that even if we think of it, then there would be financial constraints because all space exploration projects involve high investments and investing such high amounts in oilfield is not preferable because one has to not only recover his investments but also he has to make profits from the oilfield.
So what I am trying to explain is that we can use the space exploration technology in the oilfield in a manner that it sounds logical and also economical.
I don’t mean that we will replace the mechanical systems of the oilfield with some high power space shuttle engines or something like semiconductors or superconductors. Instead what I want to explain is that how the software technology and automation used in space exploration technology can be used in the oilfields. But I would just like to give a word of caution. The following write up has some petroleum engineering stuff, so those who are not related with petroleum engineering may find it difficult to understand.
So, after this thought of technology exchange, I went to NASA’S website from which I move further on to the NASA’S technology website. This website had a list of about 200-300 software’s and automation systems. I browsed through nearly 100 of them to look upon something, which could serve some purpose in the oilfield.
One such software was NASALIFE. NASALIFE is a life prediction program for propulsion system components under cyclic thermo mechanical loading and creep rupture conditions. The program references empirical data for low cycle fatigue, creep rupture, and static material properties as part of the life prediction process.
Now such software could be of much use in well integrity management. Tubing’s, casings and other downhole equipments also face stress conditions. Moreover, if we are dealing with a HT/HP well, then well integrity management becomes a more ardent task. So, with the help of software like NASALIFE, we can keep a check on our downhole equipments and change/rectify them whenever necessary.
I know that already some software’s exist for well integrity management. But what makes NASALIFE special is it’s accuracy and the large amount of data, which it can process. NASALIFE can accurately determine the damages per mission before the failure of the component. This is what we need in well integrity management wherein we can determine any damages in the equipment well before its failure thereby saving a lot’s of dollars for the company. We can cut down the costs while modifying this software for the oil industry, as we are not dealing with propellants and turbo engine’s here which require much higher and complex calculations along with high degree of accuracy. So, our software can be prepared in lower budgets.
CARES is another software from NASA, which can be used in the oilfield. It is a life prediction software for ceramics. Thus, the modified version of this software can also be used in well integrity management.
Petroleum economics is yet another subject which is of much importance. There are already some software’s, which deal with this subject. Nowadays such software’s are made which incorporate the Monte Carlo simulation, which is one of the best financial tool. NASA also uses a software, SiCM, which is used to estimate the costs for performing different types of component testing at other NASA test facilities during the development of the space transportation propulsion system. SiCM is a simulation-based cost methodology with the designed purpose of estimating high-level cumulative costs for test programs of propulsion systems across a customer defined time period.
After going through its technical aspects, I felt that if we develop a software on the lines of SiCM, then we would have a much better financial analysis when compared to the existing software’s in the oil industry.
so, guys, this was just a sneak peak at whatever space exploration technology can do for the oilfield's. there are still many things to discuss which i will continue in my subsequent blogs.
see you at next blog then!

Think Different!

2006-08-17T03:11:00.000-07:00

Recently I was browsing through the website of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It’s necessary to specify the full form now days because as far as my knowledge goes there are 7 MIT’S in India also!)
And really telling, I was astounded at whatever things they are doing. Robotics, Space, Biotechnology, Chemistry….they are creating wonders in every field. I know that they have the best brains and the best professors to do so. But they have yet another thing due to which they are doing wonders…… “ Execution of Thoughts” …and I am talking about the thoughts of students.
Here back in India, we people also keep our grey cells busy…but the agony is that we cant always put our thoughts to execution. We have some premier institutions like IIT’S where an individual does get a chance to execute what he things...but I think there are still some IITians who do not get their chance.
We are, infact, not encouraged to think differently. As such we are always overburdened by exams, some stupid CGPA’S and assignments….and whenever we get time to think, people don’t support it.
At least this has happened with me a number of times. We have a society named as “Society of Petroleum Engineers” which is the most successful industrial society. Many technological advances came from within this society. I have been trying since months to start a student section of my university for this society. But nobody has taken it seriously. Infact it’s a shame that none of our faculty are even a member of this society!
Recently my paper got selected for an international conference, but nobody from the faculty even asked about it! I sent my paper in IIM after they liked my abstract…and still nobody asked! And guys…it’s not only about me. I see my juniors winning and participating in different seminars, and still they are unrecognized!!
We have a R & D center. What for?? For practicing dance during fests!! Even if the university get some funding on a project, they never involve a student in it.
And still they want to be of International Standards!!! How can they even think of it???
Really telling, I am totally frustrated now. That’s why I decided to start blogging..so that atleast I can put forward my idea’s..
Common guys….MIT’S are not created just like that….we need that scientific temperament…and I want to see in every student…I even see students who just cram things..because you only get recognized if you an excellent CGPA. …we need to get out of it…we have to think different..if we really want to see a true MIT here..

My First Post

2006-08-16T10:01:00.000-07:00

i am new to this blogging world..so hope to see some stupid posts from me. i always wanted to share my thoughts...and hence i thought that blogging would be the best thing to do this!
earlier i felt that why people are wasting their time in this blogging stuff..but now i think that by expressing your views you atleast get some self satisfaction!
so..from today.i begin my journey in this blogging world!