Random Thoughts

Alice showed two baskets filled with apples, and asked, " Which one does have more apples?".  Chintu after counting replied, "Left one.". Next Alice showed two bottles of water and asked, " Which one does have more now?".  Chintu replied, " The blue one". Then, Alice, this time showed two flowers and asked, " Which one is more beautiful?". Chintu took some time, but couldn't answer.  Alice: What's wrong? Chintu: I can't figure out which is more beautiful? Alice: But you did well in the first two questions, what happened now?  Chintu: In the earlier cases I had numbers to compare, I could count the number of apples and compare the numbers, I could measure the volume and compare the numbers, but how to count beauty? Without a number how can I compare? Alice smiled. Chintu is right in his question. Every time, the question of  'which one is more/less' we encounter, we associate a number to each of the subjects and then ...

Say you have three alphabets A, B, C. How many 2 letter words can you make?  The answer is 9 (3x3). (AB, BC, CA, BA, CB, AC, AA, BB, CC). If you knew one more alphabet, say D, you could now make 16 words (4x4). Just by knowing one more alphabet, you can now do 7 more arrangements to create new words. Knowledge and ideas are no different. With knowledge of 10 things, you can do more permutations to create new ideas than you can do with knowledge of 5 things.  And in most cases of our lives, the appearance of ideas aren't deliberate, they just appear seemingly from nowhere disrespecting space and time. But only if we have the necessary tools (knowledge) to work on those ideas, we won't be able to identify them. For example, one day you are walking and you saw a car. Suddenly you got the question: if I run fast I will run my engine for a lower span of time but at a higher fuel rate. If I go slow fuel rate is low but I have to run the engine for a long period of time. So then wha...