Sunday, 11 March 2018

Some Impossible Stuff - 1

This blog may look like very long. So, anybody having 5 minutes of free time, some love for science & technology and patience to read some impossible and meaningless stuff only go through it.
The topic that I am going to discuss may sound crazy or impossible or some foolish stuff but I have been thinking on this for a very long time. So, I thought of writing something about this.
Let's come to the topic that I have been thinking for so long.
Actually, I have a question for all the innovators, scientists or technocrats out there...

Can we create a system/set-up/architecture with the help of which we can transfer/provide battery to a device mobile/laptop from a centralized unit i.e to end the process of charging up the electronic devices.
This might be sounding a bit fuzzy. So, let me elaborate this with an example.
Suppose I have a mobile device in my hand which is having 7% battery in it, and we have developed a system with help of which we will charge our phone. It may be either of this :-
1) By logging on to some site/application
2) Connecting with some network similar to that of mobile-network or internet.
3) By performing some physical activity on our device i.e a button is pressed or some other similar kind of action.

Now, as you have performed any of the above mentioned steps, you will now be connected to some external source (you can call that a server or PowerHouse or SuperBattery) which is having energy in abundance (the energy which will charge our devices) and on the basis of your need/choice some amount of energy is injected into your device from that external source and as a result of this whole process, the battery level of your phone jumps from 7% to 70%.

In a broader view, you can imagine this process with any of your electronic devices whether mobile phones/laptops/tablets etc. which connects with some external electricity source to get charged.

I know, all of this will be sounding like some kiddish logic to you all but let me take you to some 200-300 years back.....
Did anybody at that time had even imagined that you will have some gadget/device and you press some buttons and suddenly you can talk to your near and dear once sitting thousands of miles away from you and that too visually.
It's just that the right time came for that invention and things aligned itself in such a way that it all happened.

Coming back to my hypothesis, I am proposing a set-up where there will be a central system somewhat similar to our modern day data-centers, we can refer this as SuperBattery which will be have huge amount of energy and there will be some device attached with it which will convert this energy into another form of energy (say X energy) which can travel in air medium with minimum or zero loss, and with some mechanism this X energy will reach to the desired device travelling through air in nano-seconds. Thereafter, there will be some device/program (hardware/software) present on our device which will receive this X energy and convert into either chemical energy to store into our mobile phone's battery or in some other form of energy say electrical if we are predicting future with battery-less devices.
I know by this point of time many of you would have stopped reading this. But for those who are still reading this I think you are having some positive hope for some impossible stuff.

It may sound childish at this point of time, but I know it will be practical some 20 years later or maybe 200 years later.

To sum-up for all of you who have wasted their precious 5 minutes...
Basically, I am giving up a hypothesis or proposing a mechanism where there will be a future of battery-less devices and we will receive energies to run our devices via a huge network from some central system which may be distributed or Moreover, we can share battery (this energy to run our devices ) with each other the way we share images and videos.

Some facts related to this hypothesis :-
1. Our mobile phone's battery stores chemical energy and whenever we charge our devices some amount of electrical energy from the charging point travel via charging cables to our devices and is stored in form of chemical energy in our devices.

2. When we use our mobile phones, this stored chemical energy is converted into many other forms of energies like electrical, light, sound, heat etc. and as a result device run out of battery.

3. Law of conservation of energy. It is proven that energy can neither be created nor be destroyed but it can be transferred from one form to another.

4. Energy can travel through air medium. There are a lot of constraints attached with the previous line but it is possible that energy can travel via air medium.

So, what we need to do is to discover a process with help of which we can transfer energy (one-form) from some source (SuperBattery) to some destination (our devices) over air as a medium that too with minimum or zero loss.

Thank you all for reading this.
Any comment that can lead to a constructive debate in a positive direction is welcome. 

Saturday, 13 January 2018

The Judiciary Issue - Problem and Solution

We all have drawn facts from our childhood civics books that legislature, executive and judiciary are three important pillars of democracy (especially in India) and for the effective working of a diverse and robust democracy like ours these three pillars should maintain their integrity and accountability towards the society. As we all grew up, our civics books were no longer our source of facts and in the current era of transparent opaqueness where there is no news that do not serve any interest,we all have few opinions in common i.e about the corruption. There have already been questions, allegations, evidences and convictions in cases of corruptions against a number of eminent personalities belonging to the two important pillars of our democracy i.e legislature and executive. Our political leaders, bureaucracy and law and order have lost their faith in the eyes of a common man long while ago. But, throughout all these years, when our democracy is struggling to make itself relevant and significant among the modern youth and common man, one thing has been constant. The integrity of judiciary has remained unquestioned, it has remained the most faithful and trustworthy institution. This pillar of democracy may have been questioned for delay in its decisions, but there have never been  questions of corruption or conflict of interest. But this incident (four Supreme Court Judges questioning the process of working of CJI ) has left us with many questions, which need to be answered immediately so as to maintain the same trust in the judiciary. We shall not judge the judges whether CJI is having any conflict of interest or the 4 judges should not have expressed their concern/dispute in front of media. Every coin has two sides and so is the case here, but one thing is evident from this incident is that everything is not going right at the apex of the judicial system. We can look at the incident both ways and we may have enough arguments on each side to declare either the CJI or these judges guilty, but by judging the judges we are only politicizing the issue which will ultimately lead a common man losing faith in the judicial establishment. The solution to this problem should not be political. It is something related to the trust of a common man and the supreme court should itself resolve this in such a way that our faith is restored in them. This incident has shook our trust in the judicial system and as I said earlier there are numerous arguments by which we can doubt CJI's integrity or vice versa. This incident also lays some light on our political establishment where we have less than half a dozen people at the top having all the supreme powers. Directly or indirectly they are the ones who appoint the heads of all the constitutional or government bodies. It's high-time that there should be more transparency and the common people should know the grounds on basis of which a person is made head of an institution. Transparency is the only way to reduce such conflicts and in the modern time of immense technical advancements and a young educated youth, the way system is working should change.