Rumi Nations

No. It's not about THAT. Nothing HAPPENED on the dinner table. In fact, I don't have one. And that's the point. It occurred to me out of the blue about the fact that I do not own a dinner table while most people do. (Of course, when one talks of India, probably it would be truer to say that most people in fact don't.) But clearly the readers of this blog would likely belong to the dinner table owning class. So, the point is this: how essential is it to own a dinner table? Does one's quality of life degrade in any noticeable manner (let alone significant manner) on account of not owning a dinner table?  Clearly, the stark fact has to do with our sense of priorities.  We make these choices and so many of them. Some of these choices are conscious and some are unconscious. There are individual choices made and societal ones too. Individuals choose to worry over dresses or dining tables or door frames or dogs or whatever.

The Large Hadron Collider is back in action ... this time without the hoopla and the misunderstanding. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/science/10collide.html?th&emc=th It's great to see a pure science project of this magnitude getting completed in the current global economic climate.

Dennis Overbye has written an intriguing article in the New York Times about some researchers who are giving a very interesting reasoning about why the Large Hadron Collider is going through so many birth pangs. The scientists think that the Higgs boson which they think they will find at the kind of energies that the LHC will be able to generate is trying to prevent its own creation. In what is certainly a pretty interesting thought, the scientists think that this is a case of the future trying to make sure that that future does not occur. This is certainly interesting, if possible, as it shows that the idea of time travel is fundamentally not impossible.