Google Timeline based search

WoooOhhh!!!

This was the expression I had with my mouth wide open when I saw this new feature of Google search

The Google timeline based search
Click on this: http://www.google.com/views?q=nanotechnology%20view%3Atimeline&esrch=RefinementBarTopViewTabs


More information here
http://www.google.com/experimental/

Electric Cars

Just came across a discussion in office today, thought would share it with you all.

A friend of mine gave me article to read.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1705518,00.html

Its about Israel seriously adopting electric car, in a process to become a oil free country.

The article itself explains the indigeniuos plan by former SAP executive Shai Agassi.

It all started with whitepaper written by Shai Agassi on his vision of make Israel Oil free.

Shai Agassi was well known as the backbone by SAP.

He had recently left SAP as he was denied the post of CEO and rumours says that its was because he is a Jew and SAP is a German company he was not made the CEO.

His company http://www.betterplace.com/ is working on establishing the charging infrastructure.
Shai Agassi is just 36 years of age and he already has a wiki page on his name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shai_Agassi


The whole idea is by making a country oil free, countries like Israel will take away their dependency from the oil producing countries and obviously no doubt about the clean environment they would create.

When would we see such a thing happening in India?

Electric and hybrid cars are already available in Indian markets. They even cost the same, but the problem lies in the basic charging infrastructure. If I have to own an electric car I would need a charge point at home and maybe at office.

So people who among you is ready to take up the initiative of making india oil free.

On second thought why don't the big shots of our country like the Ambani's, the Birla's, the Tata's pick up the challenge.
They could start of with small town and get the infrastructure ready before it booms out of proportion.

I think its time for the government to think in this terms rather than just bring up SEZ's, Malls, housing, bridges and more bridges and watch the city burst out.

I work in JB Nagar Andheri Kurla road and I must say that the first road that leads out of Mumbai International Airport has become a nightmare after the start of the Metro Project. I just pray that the Metro project does not get stuck in some sort of controversy and they halt work, as most of the project in India does.

Any comments?

Corpus Clock

A friend of mine shared a link with me.

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/communications/1522.html

I really enjoyed collecting the Gyan from video.
And I did some googling on it and thought would just share the findings with you.
Wiki explained more about the corpus clock, they went more into the technicalities of how it is made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock

Its amazing to read that around 200 people were involved in the project and the amount of money that went into it.
As explained in the video the corpus clock is based on the Grasshopper Escapement invented by John Harrison.
The following link explains the beauty of Grasshopper Escapement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_escapement

The best part is it was all Mechanical and it did not require any lubricant.

But the thing is, its still not accurate for eternity. Even corpus clock is told to be accurate only for 200 years.
So is there something that is more accurate?
Around a year back I had seen a documentary which talked about Albert Einstein vision of an Atomic Clock which would be much more accurate.
I thought that such a clock is not in existence, but Google(The tech God) proved me wrong.

The following link talks about the Atomic Clock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock

And this link talks about its practical usage.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/08apr_atomicclock.htm

In fact if you are a GPS user you have used a Atomic Clock.

Accuracy of atomic clock: "The best ones on Earth lose no more than one second in millions of years"

Well some internet backbone servers are linked to GPS for time accuracy and I am an Internet user, so that make me also a user of Atomic clock... Wow... ;)

Thanks to Albert Einstein.

Thank you all for bearing me...

Levitation at its best - enjoy science

Today I got a forwarded mail which had a video showing levitation using magnets.
I video was incredible to see.
Did some googling on it and found this link which explains the same video and how the different elements play thier role.
The way nitrogen behaves in a magnetic field was interesting to read.
It about inhomogeneities

http://www.fys.uio.no/super/levitation/

Check out the step by step description...
http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/levitation.html

I sometimes seriously think about going back to school and performing such experiment... but this time with the right attitude and spirit