Crisis in Newton's law of Gravitation

Newton's law of Gravitation was a very successful theory. It was tested by many people many times and it always proved true. But, it was not the final theory. It also has some faults and some of them were known to Newton.

At first many of Newton's contemporaries found the idea of attraction between two objects through empty space unintelligible. Newton provided an escape by imagining that gravitational attraction is caused by the exchange of some massless particle called graviton but he explained no further.

Another problem was number of stars in the universe. According to Newton the number of stars in the universe should be infinite because a finite number of stars would eventually collapse at some point due to gravitational attraction. Later Heinrich Olbers argued that infinite number of stars would make the night-sky so bright like day.

Vectors in Physics

As I am studying more Physics I am coming to realise that vectors play a very important role in Physics. It has revolutionized the study of Mechanics and later it came to far important use in Thermodynamics and Electromagnetism.

In mathematics vectors are also helpful to study complex numbers.

I think the very basis of vector is the triangle law and the idea of representing some quantities by lines drawn on plane.

New look at cosmology

About four or five years ago I was very much interested in Cosmology. But last one year I have shown a little interested in Cosmology. Last two days I am finding myself interested again in cosmology. Stephen Hawking`s history making A Brief History of Time,(which has changed the course of my life) is still my guide to Cosmology. While reading it two or three years ago I had omitted Alan Guth`s idea of inflation and primitive state of universe but now it seems to me one of the most interesting idea in the history of Cosmology.

Physics

Physics is a science that deals with the material objects of the universe (mass, force, energy, charge etc.) It aims to express the laws of the universe in terms of mathematical equations. These laws are believed to predict all the phenomena that take part in the universe.

Physicists are trying to formulate a Grand Unified Theory that alone will govern all the natural phenomena. But it would require incredible effort to do so at once. So physicists take the shorter and easier way, they began to find partial laws which predicts some limited phenomena. Some of the most successful partial theories are Law of Gravitation, Electromagnetic Theory, General Relativity, Quantum Theory etc. At present physicists are trying to unify General Relativity and Quantum Theory.

Introduced with Kitaro

Today I have listened another New Age instrumentalist Kitaro`s pieces: Silk Road, Orochi, The Clouds, Moon Dance. This Japanese composer possesses strong mystic and ghostly power.

His Silk Road is a long mystic theatrical peace.As far as I know the piece was written for a Japanese TV series Silk Road.Perhaps Silk Road is a famous route from Europe through Tajikistan, Uzbekistan of central Asia to China. It culturally connects two continents (Europe and Asia).

Cover of Yanni`s Album

Sometimes the cover of a music album accompanies the mode of the music in it.Yanni`s album covers are very much artful.At the beginning of his career his album-covers were abstract, gradually they became portrait based.In his early cover-portraits (for instance In My Time, Dare to Dream) he appears like a romantic-novel hero.

The cover of Yanni`s first and second solo albums (Optimystique, Keys to Imagination) are like surrealist paintings that fits rightly to the nature of his music. Notable the later springs a supernatural feeling.

Yanni`s Music

Yanni is probably the most influential New Age(although Yanni himself likes to categorize himself as adult instrumental) instrumentalist of the 90s.He is especially known for his romantic signature style.

This article gives a precise description of Yanni and his music.