The Technological Edge!!!...

I've heard of living life on the edge, but this is the first time I'm truly experiencing life at the 'technological' edge! Our first summer project being very pin-pointed in nature, at least as of now, leaves us with plenty of time in our hands. And although a second project on 'EMD Welding' is on its way right after we finish developing the 'Creep Test' procedure for Bharat Forge, life at the moment is pretty alleviated. Sitting in the comfort of a sofa in an air-conditioned research library and catching up on every earth shattering engineering breakthrough that has taken place in recent times is, without the shadow of a doubt, my favorite part of the day. 

Surfing the net to find extensive details and combining it with the knowledge gained from the latest research papers available here, is by far the best utilization of time I've done in ages. Many a times I feel like I'm already living my dream, even before I pass out of college with a master's degree in hand. The dim fluorescent lighting in the beautifully carved ceiling and the few rays of sunlight entering through gaps in the curtain totally detach you from your current bearings and take you into a world where science combines with technology to give rise to new ground breaking theories and their varied mind-numbing applications.

It was just the other day that I picked up a magazine titled 'New Scientist', in which Einstein's space-time theory had been challenged by physicist Lee Smolin and his colleagues at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. They had made a radical claim that we actually live in an eight-dimensional world called 'phase space', which combines our familiar four dimensions of space-time with a four-dimensional world called momentum-space. If this theory was indeed proved to be correct it would solve certain intriguing problems like the 'black hole information-loss' paradox.

Spending your days at the research facility of one of the foremost companies in India, trying to conjure up the secrets of the very fabric of reality in your mind, is probably a strange but one of the most interesting and fruitful ways one can spend time here, that is if you are interested in such stuff! Time flies and we don't even look at our watches. This is one of the first and only places where I think of staying a little longer, instead of being keen on returning home as soon as the clock's hour-hand strikes five every evening!...

I wish this amazing journey would last a bit longer than the duration of our summer intern, but alas with only a month remaining, the time to leave Bharat Forge draws nearer every day. But, what's more important is enjoying every present moment as such good times might not last forever. With so much uncharted territory yet to be explored, I can now say with conviction that: "Even the sky is not the limit!..."