Gedanken experiment

A question
if mass can be converted into mass then energy can be converted into energy. Therefore light is a source of energy what is the mass of light
An answer
It is indeed a good question. Even though light has no rest mass it does have an effective mass which has all the properties one expects from [...]

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Doctor’s Blog

This is an interesting Blog I came across
http://doctorandpatient.blogspot.com/

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Compound Wall

Rashmi Bansal at http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/2005/12/iisc-attack-sad-day-for-science.htmlasks
How hard would it be to enter IIT Bombay tomorrow and open fire at the crowd gathered for LiveWire?? Even if everyone is frisked and cars searched at the point of entry, the low boundary wall makes it easy for anyone to enter.
I could not avoid thinking about my college, Tirunelveli Medical [...]

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Divisions in India !!!

Thennavan, in his post Vadakku Vaazhgiradhu, Therkku Theigiradhu writes
I am going to highlight this bias against the South, particularly Tamilnadu, time and again. Divisions don’t occur in India on their own. They are created when one set of people assume that another major set of people don’t exist.
emphasis mine
More quotes on this topic
http://www.geocities.com/tamiltribune/99/0402.html
While [...]

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Ayutha Eluthu

There are few points in the movie Ayutha Eluthu….
The sequences and songs involving Madavan was filmed with red background and red dresses
The sequences and songs involving Surya was filmed with green background and green dresses
The sequences and songs involving Siddharth was filmed with blue background and Blue dresses
Madavan – low classSurya – Middle ClassSidharth – [...]

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Library Days

I read an interesting blog by Dr.Tarun Jacob at http://tarunjacob.blogspot.com/
What caught me was the following lines from the post http://tarunjacob.blogspot.com/
study for ten minutes then excuse myself to go eat breakfast! Hopeless!! God knows how I made I through Med school.
Exactly like what I was in my college days. I was one who used Library [...]

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Manager or Damager

Kennedy Gopalan write about MBA gfraduates here at http://www.askenni.com/archives/2005/12/the_mbas_and_th.html
With reference to the line
MBA degrees make you more of a ‘damager’ than a ‘manager’)
In my opinion, IIM or for that matter, no school or college can teach you to become a professional if you don’t have the basic aptitude. The educational institutions are for “polishing the [...]

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Travails of oursourcing

Rediff says that http://rediff.com/money/2005/dec/19msg.htm
Pratibha Srikanth Murthy, an employee of the business process outsourcing arm of Hewlett Packard in Bangalore, was raped and murdered by the driver of the company-commissioned cab she was travelling in on her way to work in the wee hours of Tuesday.This has sent shivers down the spine of BPO workers, their [...]

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Comments about Illayaraja

I chanced to see few comments about Illayaraja at www.askenni.com by S. Maheshkumar
This is what he says
The list of Thiru Ilaiyaraja’s Blunders:
‘Thiru / Thirumathi to be prefixed at appropriate proper names’.
1. Vali (Ever Steady) against Vairamuthu (Rejuvenated).
2. ‘Malaysia’ Vasudevan against T. M. Soundararajan (Fuming/Lamenting).
3. Janaki (Rediscovered) against Susheela (Everlasting).
4. Mano against S. P. Balasubrahmaniam [...]

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Chennai on the Rise

Thennavan writes about the
complete black-out of a city belonging to a state that is the second largest IT exporter in the country, next only to the “much ballyhooed” Bangalore,
here athttp://chennaicentral.blogspot.com/2005/12/there-is-no-city-called-chennai-in.html
More information can be seen at http://www.rediff.com/money/2005/nov/12guest2.htm and http://www.rediff.com/money/2005/nov/14spec3.htm

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