I was browsing through the webpages of AhmedabadMirror. com and i clicked on a link which should have taken me to an article of a famous Ahmedabadi columnist! But i got this page instead (Copy-pasted Below). Inspite of my best efforts, i started laughing in office with the entire staff including my boss looking at me and wondering if i had gone nuts.(And i dont know why i'm posting a diary about this either, but i still cant stop laughing!)


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Those of you who have visited my photo album recently know that i had visited Dwarka some weeks ago. The trip was amazing, the temple even more so but before leaving i was harrowed by a small seemingly insignificant problem. Our home landline, the BSNL standard issue phone had clonked out. And it had clonked out exactly 12 hours before i was supposed to leave for Dwarka and so i feared that i'd have no way of being in touch with my grandparents who were staying back at home and not accompanying us on this trip. I tried my best to get the phone working again, checked the wiring for any snapped ends and even followed the wires to the core, but to no avail. The darn phone just wouldnt work.


Finally as a last resort, i went upstairs and grabbed the spare Nokia 1203 which we had kept for an emergency in case any of our mobile phones ever stopped working. I didnt have a Sim Card so went out and bought a 30 rupee Idea Card and along with it a 30 rupee recharge and activated the phone. Now in front of me lay the Herculean task of teaching my grandfather how to use a mobile phone. My grandpa, has always been quite techno-savvy or atleast he thought he was so. He loves to fiddle around with the remote control of the TV and the music system and also enjoys operating the microwave, the ummmm....... (that machine jis-se gheun ka aata banta hai) and also the air cooler. So when i asked him whether he would be comfortable with a mobile phone he was like "ya, dikhao mujhe, how hard can it be".
So i showed him the phone. Its a tiny phone with an even smaller keypad. So i locked the keypad on the phone and told him "whenever the phone rings, just press this Green button.

"Ok" he said "And to disconnect"?. "Nevermind that" i replied, "the person who has called will disconnect the phone himself". So he said "okkay, fine. I got it". Then he asked me the procedure for making a call. But then i pondered that to do so, first i'd have to show him how to unlock they keypad and then initiate a call. And if by chance he forgot to disconnect the call then the entire balance would get eaten up and even the incoming calls would be barred. Not wanting to tell him that i thought 'the process for making a outgoing call was too complex for him to understand', i lied to him saying that the Outgoing facility has not yet been activated on the phone. "Okkay" he said looking forlorn "Then call me every 2-3 hours". I agreed and told him that i'll be in constant touch with him.

During the trip, i spoke to him throughout and asked him if he was comfortable with the phone. He's like "ha, badhu saru chhe, pan phone halto reh chhe khisa ma jya sudhi hun ene upadto nathi" (Ya, everything is okkay with it, but the phone keeps moving in my pocket until i pick it up).

I slapped my forehead cursing myself because i had forgotten to disable the vibration feature on it. Anyway, the phone served its purpose and i got back home 3 days later. The phone my 90 year old grandpa was using had an 'Idea' SIM card in it, but i really really doubt that he "walked while he talked". I called the BSNL guys later in the day and got them to come home, identify the fault and rectify it. They did so (after charging me 50 rupees for 'chai-paani'). The next day, i went to my dadaji and asked to take the phone back but he was of the opinion that he should keep it active since i had already paid for its 6 months of validity. "Thats true" i said "but you'll have to charge this phone every 2 days. Instead be happy with the BSNL phone which doesnt require anything". But he didnt want to give it up. "Fine" i said..... and i was really exasperated "keep it".

2 days ago, i spotted another eldery person living in our society talking with him on our porch. And i saw my grandpa take the little Nokia out of his pocket and talk into it (No doubt showing off to that other 90 year old person that he now owned a mobile phone). I laughed and went back to studying. Late that night around 2 am, i came downstairs to drink some water and had just opened the refrigerator, when i spotted an eerie white light in the hallway. Terrified, i grabbed my cricket bat and approached the source of the light. It was my dadaji using the torch on the phone and lighting up the way towards the bathroom. I asked him the next day who taught him how to switch on the torch and he said that i had left the instruction manual in the box. And the Nokia guys had printed the booklet inside in English, Hindi as well as Gujarati so he had no problems learning how to use the various facilities in the phone.

You'd think that atleast the monsoon's in India would be on time...... Or even they are getting affected by the "IST Flu". Here they are, back again with a flourish....... going 'drizze drizzle bang bang' even when they're supposed to be technically over. But then i guess, its just an extension of 'When in India, do like the Indians do'. Nice to see that even the finicky monsoon follows the logic of that proverb. Anyway, right now..... as i'm writing this, the streets are inundated with water.........


Water Water everwhere........ i cant see the tarmac on the streets, nor i can see the shrubbery in our cricket ground. Even the upright post which we had erected to depict the boundary is partially under water. Scratching my head, i opened the newspaper today morning only to be confronted with the news of the Sardar Sarvovar dam being completely overwhelmed by the amount of water flowing in through these rains. And that they would have to release some of the water downstream (to us), which would make our situation even worse.


On that cheery note, let me tell you what happened to me last night. No, this post is not a continuation of my earlier post (Ref : I hate girls), but for all intent and purposes, it can be construed so. Yesterday around 9 pm, i was driving back home when suddenly a large pool of water appeared right in front of me. I didnt see it at first because of the heavy darkness and the lack of street lights but then when the car headlights hit them and i saw some deep ripples running towards the sides, i involuntarily tried hard to abstain from my primary instinct of slamming down hard on the brakes. My car doesnt have ABS and the roads were not only wet but slipperly too. So i pumped the brakes about 5 times in 2 seconds and then slammed down hard on them. It worked, the car stopped in a straight line with me giving miniscule steering inputs to control the constantly shifting centre of gravity (thats a problem in tall cars like the santro). I went through the pool at a speed of 30 km/hr and a couple of times felt the car aquaplaning, but still managed to come out of it unscathed. Heaving a sigh of relief, i pulled over on the side of the road to calm my thumping heart.


In the rear view mirror i saw a pair of fast-approaching headlights and i thought to myself "With the speed that car is carrying through the pool of water, i hope it doesnt turn turtle". But as it came closer, i could make out that the car was a Accent and though not as top-heavy and unstable as a Santro, it wasnt a 'mountain goat' either. It slithered into the pool at a speed of about 50-60 km/hr and started aquaplaning. Because the wheels were not touching the ground, the car didnt react to the steering inputs provided by the driver and the front right-hand-side wheel started to drag itself against the road divider. I could hear the rubber screaming in protest at this treatment and then i heard a 'bang'. That sound was oddly familiar. The wheel...... cold, hard and wet when dragged against the road divider had generated a lot of heat and caused the tube inside to burst. Whatever control the driver had, even that was gone now. The car fishtailing wildly, spun about 80 degrees to the left before the driver caught its tail and straightened it out. "Pretty impressive", i thought to myself. Catching the tail of a car which was already aquaplaning and which had just burst a tyre in less than 5 seconds on a cold slipperly wet road was no simple feat. I watched as the car came to a standstill 3 meters in front of me. But nobody came out. So, cautiously, i got out of my car and walked over to the Accent and tugged at the door handle. Fortunately, the door was unlocked. I see this 27-28 year old girl sitting inside breathing heavily, just as i was 2 minuites earlier. Following which we had this conversation



Me : Hey, you okay? That was a close-call
Her : Wha, what?
Me : Are you okkay??
Her : What the hell happened?
Me: Your right front wheel dragged on against the divider and it burst.
Her : Oh That was that huge 'Bang' sound i heard then.
Me: Yup. Lets see if your car is okkay . (So she got out of her car on her, legs shaking, hands trembling and walks around with me circling the car)
I look at the burst tyre and told her that she would have to change the tyre. She just shrugged her shoulders, not even listening..... still trembling and shuddering.



Me: Do you have a jack?
Her: Who?
Me: Not who! Jack jack, that thing for raising the car chassis so we can remove a wheel.
Her: I dont know.

So i checked her boot, turned out, she did have a jack.

3 men go into a motel. The man behind the desk said the room rent per night is $30, so each man paid (shared) $10 and went into to the room.

A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only $25, so
He sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with $5.

On the way, the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man a $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.

This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of
$27, add the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29.

So Where is the other dollar?


[Its a thought provoking riddle......... i managed to figure out the answer (barely and that too after 5 min). If you figured it out as well, post the answer in the comments section]

A couple of days ago, i was the victim of extreme boredom so me and my friend Gaurav, went to watch the Ram Gopal Verma movie Agayaat at the Drive-In. The Drive-In theatre in Ahmedabad, is one of its kind where you take your cars inside a huge enclosure of space and park it in the best possible spot, which gives you a straight and uninterrupted view of the big screen high up in the air.

Most people bring folding chairs in the boot of their cars and get them out. Since we didnt have any folding chairs, we took a blanket which i had bought along and spread it on the slightly raised pavement where i had parked the car. I then parked the car horizontally so that we could lean against the side of the car while sitting on the blanket. (The accepted norm for parking is Vertically, but then you only get the front or the back of the car to lean on and therefore less space than the sides)

We were parked in the 4th row with another 8 rows behind me. And while people had parked on the lanes, i had parked on the pavement because we needed something to lean on while sitting on the blanket. And then in the row behind me, there was a group of girls who had come to watch a movie. They were driving a Honda Civic. I could see them flashing their headlights signalling that we were in the way. Still i took no notice of them and went about with my business. I mentioned it to my friend Gaurav who said "Jaane de na yaar, Ye ladki log ko hamesha problem hota hai. They wont find the view perfect until theirs is the only car left in here". I agreed in principle to what he had to say.

10 minuites later, one of them came up to me and said "hey we cant see anything?"
So i said "why? Are we in the way? But the screen is sooooo high up"
So she's like "No your santro is too high. And then you have not parked it on the lane but on the high pavement so we cant see anything"
So i'm like "okkkkkk, what do you want me to do? Cut off the roof of the car for you with a chainsaw?
So she's like"Umm no, but why dont you just park it in the lane"

Gaurav :"We cant. Because we need the side of the car to rest our backs on"
Then she moved and came into the light. She was pretty, yes and i could hear a deep inhalation of breath, which i guessed could only be Gaurav.
The girl :"But if the roof was not as high, like in my car, then we could see the movie clearly"
Me : "oh".
So she's like "cant you do something about it? Pleeeeeeaaaassssssssseeeeeeeee
eeee"
And i went "hmmmmm, well if you give me 7 lakh rupees, i'll sell my santro and add that money to the 7 lakh rupees you give me and buy myself a Civic and then maybe YOU can watch the movie in peace"
So she glared at me and went away.
Then Gaurav, who was a silent spectator during this exchange said, "Aww Rahul, why to ruin her mood and her friends mood"
So i told him that "You better not be going soft on that Hitler's daughter".
He just shrugged his shoulders and so i assumed that one of cupid's assistants had started his work.
Nevertheless, i moved the car a bit and parked it vertically instead of horizontally, so although we had less space to rest our backs (but since we were only 2 people, it was sufficient), they could view the screen almost completely
So she comes over and said "thank you guys".
Gaurav : "Oh yes, dont worry. If you want us to move the car even further, please let us know. Its no problem." (I couldnt believe he said that. Saale ne Ladki ko kya dekh liya, woh hamari purani dosti bhool gaya)

I gave her another sarcastic look and told Gaurav that i'm going to get some popcorn and a pepsi and i asked him if he wanted anything. Gaurav :Oh, ek kaam karna yaar, get me a bag of popcorn too.
Me : "okkay, done"
Gaurav :"You want anything?" (I turned around and saw he was talking to the girl) And the girl takes one look at me, sees the fire in my eyes and says hastily to Gaurav "No no, i'm fine. Thanks for asking"
Me : "Gaurav are you sure you dont want a couple of Cornetto's?"
Gaurav (who had lost his tongue) : "Err, aaaah, ummm, hmmmm, na na, no no no..... no thanks"
The girl had turned a shade of red as well. So i left to get my popcorn and pepsi.

As the movie was ending and we were packing our stuff into the car, the girl came over again and thanked us (Gaurav actually) for being "soooo co-operative and chhoooo-chhhweeet" and agreeing to move the car so that they could get an uninterrupted view of the screen.

I didnt say anything and went back to watching the credits of the movie. I silently decided at that moment that the next car i'd buy would be a Toyota Innova or a Tata Safari, and i'd park it
horizontally right in front of their car and wouldnt even move it an inch. Good luck seeing the movie then!!!

Just look at the great person (Purushottam Abu's) comment on a rediff blog .This blog was on the article where 2 scientists have invented a plane that will run on solar energy....…they claim it will work in night as well



Suggestion
by Purushottam Abuj on Jun 30, 2009 01:38 PM | Hide replies

Actually Government should use the geographical advantage of we being on the opposite side of USA.
We should dig a through hole from the center earth which will connect India and USA, so we can put wire through it.
So in India's day time sun light and solar energy can be given to USA and they can give us the same in their day time.
Also we can fit an train through it so that we dont have to use planes for travelling.

Similarly Finland and New Zealand can be connected using a vertical angular hole.
The best part is if we drop something from Finland it will automatically come down to New Zealand due to gravity, so lot of energy
can be saved which we lose in transportation and travelling.
This saved energy can then be stored in Eveready Pencil Cells and can be sold at Rs 14 each. This additional revenue can then be
used to educate the people and the children of farmers so that they will have earning sons and they will not sucide.

Re: Suggestion
by SUNDEEB NAIR on Jun 30, 2009 01:50 PM

Brilliantest idea ever spelt. But when digging hole from India to US, we should take care when digging at the end, otherwise the excavators & engineers, laborers etc. will fall out of the earth into space.
I differ reg. pricing Pencil c\Cells at Rs.14/-, due to inflation, drought the price should be raised to like 14.50

Re: Suggestion
by venky iyer on Jun 30, 2009 01:48 PM
mr purshottam ur definately a mahapurush,i must recommend you to padma bhushan nd vidya bhushan awards for u

Re: Suggestion
by Rajnish Singh on Jun 30, 2009 01:46 PM
Making hole in earth is not a good idea. We can just break sun into 4-5 parts and fit one part above India, one above US, one above Finlad and one above New Zealand.

Re: Re: Suggestion
by Rajnish Singh on Jun 30, 2009 01:48 PM
Sanjoy, I have already nominated him for Noble prize. Please don't forget to watch India TV tonight

Re: Re: Suggestion
by manoj lakhanpal on Jun 30, 2009 01:57 PM
This is realy a grt idea guys.. one more thing we are missing.. How Bhart Ratan Purush (Honai wallai) can forget to utilize MOON.. We need to workout to utilize moon light in night rather than digging our motherland....

Re: Re: Re: Suggestion
by Purushottam Abuj on Jun 30, 2009 02:01 PM
Yes I agree as Moon glows in the night it means surely it is having some sort of energy,

My suggestion is Next time when we launch chandrayan, connect some wire to its end and then send to earth. So the energy can directly reach from Moon to Sriharikotta.

By the way, dont forget to another wire for Earthing, becoz I am not sure if Moonthing works

Re: Suggestion
by Gaurav Kaul on Jun 30, 2009 01:55 PM
thank god you posted this here and not on a foreign website.otherwise all indians would be branded mental patients ....


Re: Suggestion
by Ungli on Jun 30, 2009 01:52 PM
what an idea sirji,

Re: Suggestion
by chin chu on Jun 30, 2009 01:59 PM
and what if all the kids playing the hole fall into it? Like it does happen everywhere around these days..

Re: Re: Re: Suggestion
by chin chu on Jun 30, 2009 02:08 PM
and dont forget the garib janta who goes out every morning with LOTA PANI to do the daily pooing stuff..what if somebody does it in the hole? US will get a taste of India..
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I'm a Gujju Bania and i just read 'confusedsouls' latest Diary post which was a forward on the stingy nature of Banias and had a good laugh. So i thought i'd post another one regarding Gujjus in general. Some parts of it were in Gujarati so i have added explanations/translations inside brackets. Hope you have a good laugh!!!


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You Must Be a Gujju If...


- You have at least 1 relative in the stock market.


- You're never worried about what happens if you get stranded in
Ghatkopar. All you'd have to do, you know, is walk across the road and
find a relative. Still easier, just shout, "Mama! Masi! Faiba! Kaka!" (My Dad's Brother, My Dads Brothers Wife, My dads sister, My dads sisters wife)
a couple of times. At least one of them is bound to be around.)


- You don't worry about being stranded in New Jersey. You've been told
by everyone that the thing to do at such a time is to open the
telephone directory, turn to "Shah" and call any number for help.


- You measure the success of a wedding by how many people praised the
food.


- You believe Narendra Modi is the solution to everything. From your
thinning hair to the nation's defence.


- You understand that when someone says "Dhirajbhai no babo" (guy child) or
"Maniben ni baby" (girl child), the "baba" and "baby" in question could be 40 years
old.


- You either think the garba is the coolest thing ever, or you wonder
why the whole world makes such a big deal out of it.


- No packing for any trip is complete without thepla. (A paratha of kinds having methi ki bhaji in it)


- Winter = undhiyo. (An assortment of vegetables cooked in winter as one single sabji)


- Summer = keri no ras. (Aam ka ras)


- Monsoon = have su karvanoo?! (Ab kya karenka???)


- You assume (in marital situations) that because Mara bhai na vevai
ni dikri na sasu (My brothers cousin-in-laws daughters mother in law) gave a recommendation, the person in question is virtue personified.


- You have no problems with love marriages. You just view them as a
last resort, that's it.


- You may not donate anything to the orphanage down the road, but when
there's a calamity in Gujarat, you send truckloads of money, food and
amenities.


- You tear off the name & address from any postal cover before throwing
the cover away.(God knows what will happen if someone finds ur address)


- Sunday mornings = Gathiya and jalebi.

Mehdi Hassan……the name needs no introduction and his songs no recall. His gazal’s are legendry which is also incidentally the album I am going to talk about today...... Some of my favourite songs to listen to while driving alone in the rainy weather with the car windows open are sung by this wonderful artist..........

Main Hosh mein tha……
Usne jab meri taraf pyar……
Har Dard ko…….
Kahan Gayi woh wafa……
Jab bhi Peekar……
Aap ki aankhon ne…..
Ther thodi der……
Jahan Jaake chain se…..


“main hosh mein tha to phir us pe mar gaya kaise (3), yeh zeher mere lahu mein utar gaya kaise”---
This is one the most brialliant songs I’ve ever heard in terms of the nature of the song. It has a touching and a resonating classical stroke throught the entire musical account. This is the kind of song you want to listen to innumerable times in the rainy weather right now in Gujarat…...One of the most beautiful stanzas in this gazal is ‘Kuchh uske dil me lagavat zaroor thi varna (3), woh mera haath (5), daba kar guzar gaya kaise’. I’d bet my eye, that if you and your better half are listening to this gazal in the sprinkling rain…….. there is no way on earth, he/she wouldn’t snuggle up close to you and hold your hand.

‘Usne jab meri taraf pyar se dekha hoga (3), mere bare mein bade gaur se socha hoga.’ – This song is tailor-made for countless people who have a soft corner for somebody but unfortunately the person who you like, already has a got a boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/w
ife. I know by talking with a lot of my friends just how exactly that feels………You cannot wish the best in the world for her because she has hurt you, but you still cannot wish the worst for her. A case where talking with her/him only results in more of an heartache, and so you decide the less you talk, the better chance you have of getting over him or her. The times you do talk to her, you try to appear cheerful and she thinks that you have finally gotten over her…….wonderfully worded by Mehdi Hassan as follows……’Has ke hum baat karlete hain unse khurshin (2), Haal apna woh samaj lete hai achha hoga (2)’’ usne jab meri taraf pyar se dekha hoga ………’


‘Har dard ko ai jaan main, sine me chhupa lu (2), kaante teri raho ke main palkho pe saja lu’—The sequel to the above, where you still wish the world for her and that she never feels the hurt or pain you did. You think about the person 24/7…..and more often than not dream about him or her “Bichdi hain meri neend bhi, bichda hai tu jabse (2), jee chahe tuje roj hi khwabon mein bula du”. A real-classic this one, Mehdi Hassan, logically through all his songs seems to narrate a story, a story which touches you in the deepest parts of your heart. “Yeh ishq ka inzaam bhi, inzaam hai koi (2), tere liye duniya ke main har inzaam utha lu”



Now for my personal favourite….’Jab bhi peekar’….This song reverberates the feelings of thousands of men in the world for whom alchohol is the only solace….. something that gives them the will to live.

Men who are out with their either their girlfriends or wives (as applicable) on New years eve when an announcement comes through on the loudspeaker that “At the stroke of midnight, I want every man to be standing next to the person who makes his life worth living….” And at the stroke of midnight, the barman almost gets trampled in the rush to him

This is a real true-blue devdas song, a song that will resonate through your ears for an entire day without tiring you, providing you with the strength to bear your loss…..”Jab bhi maikhane se lekar hum chale, saath lekar sainkdo aalam chale (2)’ Another one........’Thak gaye thei zindagi ki raah main (5), ho ke maikhane se taaza hum chale’…..By this time you are under the heavy influence of alcohol and Mehdi Hassan’s voice….and you sing out loud blaming the world…… “Jitne gum zaalim zamaane ne diye (4), dafn karke maikhane mein hum chale”


Now for the last song, literally the last song……This is the song that will leave you eyes wet….The man is now in his last stages……..and wishes for everlasting peace……..
“Jahaan jaake chain se mar saku, kabhi laut ke bhi na aa saku (2) Mujhe koi aisi jagah bata, jahan tujko dil se bhula saku”. This song cannot have any words describe it…..Words cannot do justice infact, to any song in the album…..And now for perhaps my favourite stanza Mehdi Hassan has ever written…… “Jab samaj main kuch bhi na aa sake, to nateeja waqt pe chhod de (2), Mujhe kuchh na de, duaa hi de, teri naksh dil se mita saku”

My words as carefully as I have tried to choose them maybe give you a 0.0000001% effect of the actual effect of Mehdi Hassan’s songs……If you’re a broken-hearted soul this CD is for you….and even if you aren’t…..consider yourself lucky…..and get this CD anyways…..so you know what happens to someone when you break their heart!!!!

I used to study in a hostel during my 3 years of college as my college was in Ahmedabad and my residence was in Gandhinagar (40 kilometres away). And since i used to have my CA classes before and after college, i used to be dead tired once i reached home and couldnt find the energy to study after the long daily commute. So anyway, i shifted to a hostel.

During the final year, some of us from the hostel were so taken aback by the financial plight of some students, who were very bright in academics, but still couldnt afford to pay the fees of some insitutions. So we decided to create a trust with a stipulation that all members (72 - the number of guys in our hostel) each should pay an amount of 100 rupees per month (a modest amount) for the benefit of a single deserving student who we would choose on the basis of his or her academic results (We did not have a lot of money during those days, or we would have taken up or contributed towards the benefit of more students) But we could still generate 7200 rupees monthly!

The trust has been recogized by the Income Tax Act and all contributions towards it are acceptable for the purposes of Section 80(G).

Anyways, i was pleasantly surprised and very happy when i received this email from the administrator of the trust which i'd like to share with everybody.



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Anybody of you, who's read the book "A brief history of time" authored by Stephen Hawking would be familiar with the title of this diary post. If you have read this book and understand the intricacies of the title of this diary post, then hats off to you. Because every single time i read the book and think about the inferences i draw from the "Spin particles", i simply cannot comprehend how it happens.

Stephen Hawking has propounded that among the various particles making up the entire universe, there are some particles which have characteristics which are quite different from what you and me can even begin to imagine. One of these characteristics which my mind just cant begin to fathom is the "spin" of certain particles.

Hawking says that all particles either have one of the 3 "spins". That is Spin 1/2 (0.5), Spin 1 or Spin 2.

Spin 1 implies that when a particle is turned over an entire revolution of 360 degrees, only then will it look normal (that is, the way it was before it was revolved). Simple, isn't it?. Our entire world is made up of particles and items which have the characteristic of Spin 1

A particle with Spin 1/2 (0.5) implies that when a particle is turned over half a revolution of 180 degrees, then it will look the same as it was before it was turned. Weird, but still imaginable. A stray example of say, a brand new un-sharpened pencil or a line or a string of thread would fit the description of a particle with Spin 1/2.

But then for the life of me, i cant understand how a particle can have the characteristic of Spin 2. Only and only when a particle completes 2 revolutions of 360 degrees, that is 720 degrees, only then it will look normal and in the same way like it was before it started to revolve.


So what happens when the particle is turned over 'JUST' 360 degreees? why doesnt it look the same as it was before it was started to turn?. HOW can it be POSSIBLE that a particle or an item has to be turned over twice, in two complete revolutions before it can look the same as it was before it started revolving. And how exactly does it look diffrerent when a particle of Spin 2 completes 'ONLY' a single revolution?

How can Spin 2 be practical, how can it be reality and not a figment of our imagination. Spin 2 defies everything, it defies even cold-hard logic, however it exists! Why, how, where and for what reason, i dont know. But Hawking has proved that particles with Spin 2 do really exist.

Unfathomable!!!! but True!!!!