I’d like to dedicate this article to Apurbo Kar, who will always be an amazing physicist, and has inspired me greatly into the belly of the beast of physics.
The Bose-Einstein statistics is a statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged; Pauli’s Exclusion principle isn’t applicable here. And if you are wondering what this piece of information is doing on a blog like this, you have to ask ― Bose-Einstein?
Yes, the Indian education system is dismal. There are sentinels being built out of colleges, rabid coaching centers popping up ubiquitously as if children were looking for rehab centers to correct themselves of the illness of not getting a ninety-nine percent in their tests. But is science really all that monstrous in this country? For every sentient being, there is a kid that actually grows into loving science, wanting to discover more, asking curious questions; he may not be the best in his class, he may not get straight A’s, he may not score a perfect score in physics – but he wants to grow up and become a scientist at CERN in Geneva.
Satyendra Nath Bose worked with Einstein and came up with the Bose-Einstein Statistics, among other beautiful concoctions. India may be suffering from an inanely corrupt education system, but we’ve got our share of scientists and physicists who have loved science enough for it to love them back – there have been countless theoreticians producing even more countless works of pure genius – that have lead to major discoveries, breakthroughs, new inventions, improvements, better versions – why, newer versions even, and so much more that has made the world a tad bit lesser of an unchartered territory.
Even out of our corrupt system emerge exceedingly intelligent men and women with incredibly creative ideas and concepts. They have so much to offer – the world’s new theories and devices feed off their imagination and prowess in the laboratory (and beyond!). Those earphones from Bose (no relation to Satyendra Bose)? Amar Bose had come up with a concept that no one else in the whole entire world has been able to utilize for their sound system – which is why you won’t get a better set of earphones in the market.
Our country harbors such great amount of mighty minds. They’re the ones that help us raise our flag an inch higher. Our country harbors such intense strength within itself. We have so many, many fields of armies, fighting the battle to pick ourselves up from the dark side. There are still so many things wrong with our country that keeps us a step behind from walking on ahead. But despite that – rather alongside that, we keep emerging forward.
No matter what, curiosity and passion prevails. Sometimes we may be trapped in an institution to learn what we don’t really want to – but in spite of the hurdles, the shackles, the ones with the real love for science remains curious and digs right through. They say that Shakespeare could always have been Newton, but Newton could never have been Shakespeare, but I beg to differ. Newton didn’t have to be Shakespeare; he already knew what Brutus would do in the end from his decisions about Caesar. A scientist is a beautiful work of art; a hunter who will slash through forests and ravage fields to get the booty he is looking for.
In my previous article I had said I was going to gush over why India has enormous strength that can astronomically belittle its weaknesses. But I realized that one article isn’t enough: so this is the second part! Maybe one day, I’ll say the same about its weaknesses. Till then, bring out your guns and swords, because it’s your time in the ring.
