I had always been intrigued by the sheer gargantuaness (I know that there's no word like that) of the sky above. Mind you, visible sky, visible to our naked eyes. Then something remarkable happened, I started studying these things in school, and of course as you might have experienced as well, everything became an equation, a classwork and homework assignment where I lost my zeal, interest and inquisitiveness to ask some of the most fundamental questions. And I give you a very small example, like charges repel each other, unlike charges attract each other, how come all all protons live happily inside the nucleus? How does weather change? Why do we have summers and winters, and let me give you a clue, it's not because our planet goes closer to sun hence summers (perihelion), farther from sun, hence winters (apehelion)?
Case in point is that when the whole objective of learning becomes the act of getting 1 more correct answer from your 'friend', you get divorced from the joy that you used to get while learning when you were little. You see a kid, how come he/she learns to talk? By imitating his/her parents and those around them, The fun that they get by mocking the people around them, the way they speak, what they say, one fine day results in an adult eloquently putting his/her thoughts in words.
Now coming back to topic in hand, earth is spinning around it's own axis at 1,664 kmph, and revolving around sun at the speed of 1,07,200 kmph. So, when you say that you are rest, are you really at rest?
There are 5 galaxies, known as Stephen's quintet, that we can see are colliding in the space. They are moving at a speed of, and I kid you not, 870 kmpS, kilometers per second. And if this is not impressive enough, think about this, that this actually happened 280 million years ago, that is, 2800000000 years ago, the light has reached our planet just now, so that's why we can see it right now. So, imagine, there might be around 100 billion stars in one galaxy, so in 5, there might be around 500 billion, and just by sheer equation of probability we can assume that at least one of those stars might have had intelligent life, and we can assume that intelligent life, probably looking for help may be, looking into the universe from their side of their planet, when saw our tiny blue planet earth from their alien telescopes, when we had dinosaurs roaming around, they probably saw ancestors of these dinosaurs, because they saw our earth what it was some 600 million years ago.
To all those people who say that we are here for a purpose, our life has a purpose, think about this, we are alive because an asteroid crash landed in central America that killed half of the dinosaurs and other half got killed because there was nothing left to eat for them due to everything covered under dust for years. And our ancestor mammal survived all this catastrophe and resulted in a selfish, corrupt, thankless, and above all an arrogant fool who thinks that someone created this whole universe keeping him/her as the center of everything, created traps and the 'fruit of knowledge' to deviate us, pretty much not even a speck of dust on an electron when compared with the massive universe that we can see around us.
I hope that we bow down to the magnanimity of the universe and start appreciating the reality around us, which is more magical than any magic that we might have read in any of our holy books. Keeping ourselves rooted in the reality will not only help us to adjust to the changing dynamics but also help us to prepare for future.
You might be wondering why a I writing all this over here, reason is that this is as valid in our field of data analytics. How often do we come across this feeling of 'I know this', that too without really studying the data, past trends, consumer behavior and dynamics of the business? It is extremely important to all of us to know the current situation, the reality, and that is lesson one of analytics, 'know that we don't know'.
Case in point is that when the whole objective of learning becomes the act of getting 1 more correct answer from your 'friend', you get divorced from the joy that you used to get while learning when you were little. You see a kid, how come he/she learns to talk? By imitating his/her parents and those around them, The fun that they get by mocking the people around them, the way they speak, what they say, one fine day results in an adult eloquently putting his/her thoughts in words.
Now coming back to topic in hand, earth is spinning around it's own axis at 1,664 kmph, and revolving around sun at the speed of 1,07,200 kmph. So, when you say that you are rest, are you really at rest?
There are 5 galaxies, known as Stephen's quintet, that we can see are colliding in the space. They are moving at a speed of, and I kid you not, 870 kmpS, kilometers per second. And if this is not impressive enough, think about this, that this actually happened 280 million years ago, that is, 2800000000 years ago, the light has reached our planet just now, so that's why we can see it right now. So, imagine, there might be around 100 billion stars in one galaxy, so in 5, there might be around 500 billion, and just by sheer equation of probability we can assume that at least one of those stars might have had intelligent life, and we can assume that intelligent life, probably looking for help may be, looking into the universe from their side of their planet, when saw our tiny blue planet earth from their alien telescopes, when we had dinosaurs roaming around, they probably saw ancestors of these dinosaurs, because they saw our earth what it was some 600 million years ago.
To all those people who say that we are here for a purpose, our life has a purpose, think about this, we are alive because an asteroid crash landed in central America that killed half of the dinosaurs and other half got killed because there was nothing left to eat for them due to everything covered under dust for years. And our ancestor mammal survived all this catastrophe and resulted in a selfish, corrupt, thankless, and above all an arrogant fool who thinks that someone created this whole universe keeping him/her as the center of everything, created traps and the 'fruit of knowledge' to deviate us, pretty much not even a speck of dust on an electron when compared with the massive universe that we can see around us.
I hope that we bow down to the magnanimity of the universe and start appreciating the reality around us, which is more magical than any magic that we might have read in any of our holy books. Keeping ourselves rooted in the reality will not only help us to adjust to the changing dynamics but also help us to prepare for future.
You might be wondering why a I writing all this over here, reason is that this is as valid in our field of data analytics. How often do we come across this feeling of 'I know this', that too without really studying the data, past trends, consumer behavior and dynamics of the business? It is extremely important to all of us to know the current situation, the reality, and that is lesson one of analytics, 'know that we don't know'.
