Sundaran as Prophet

Who is a hero?  How deeply does a hero affect our lives? Where do we put a stop to our praise of these heroes? Are they really as perfect as we imagine them to be? Would we hate them for their bad sides once we get to know them, or is it unconditional admiration despite the negatives? Note: I'm talking about people of celebrity status and influence. The kind you probably won't ever meet but know only through books or media. Some of you might have come across the poem “ If ” by Rudyard Kipling at some point.  The occasional YouTube search “Inspirational Videos” brings up this poem (among a lot of other poems and quotes) in black and white videos with some dude in a deep manly voice reading out the poem. And it is arguably one of the most uplifting poems ever, the  YouTube video , if administered at the right time, can possibly fill your willpower reserve and enable you to fight through an extra hour of study or work. I’ve read “If” a lot many times. And Rudyard Kipling see...

**SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT  for Marvel movie  Thor: Love and Thunder** Oh, I see what he’s doing. Trying to capitalise on the science audience from college by using all these science terms for analogies, and bringing up Marvel pop culture references to make it seem interesting… Yes, I can read minds. And you’re probably right, this is a flimsy attempt at original content meets SEO optimising. Prophet needs to focus on the business end too. The idea of using a local Lorentz frame to serve as some far-fetched analogy on life in general had come up to me back during the General Relativity course at college. And I had to revisit old General Relativity notes now since I had forgotten the whole idea, not that great a feeling. So I have to make this worth the effort. I’ll keep the science short. In a local region of curved spacetime, one can always choose coordinates where the metric looks approximately like the flat Minkowski metric. This is the local Lorentz frame. Ok ok that seems lik...