- The auditorium
Today, there was a small change in the schedule. Instead of the daily lecture at 9:30, students were shown an interesting movie, called 'Flatland'. The movie was an animated & fantastic story of figures of two dimensions. It showed the conflict between dimensions.
The motive behind the story was 'The thing you can't see, doesn't means that it does not exist'.
After that there was a tea break, then there was supposed to be a lecture
by Prof. Sanjay Jain on 'Origin of Life' at 10:30, but due to some reasons it was postponed to 11:30. Prof. Jain is a physicist working at the University of Delhi. Prof. Jain talked about the evolution of life on earth, that is the coming into being of the first single-celled organisms. He talked about the internal structure and the chemical composition of a cell or a bacterial cell specifically. The lecture was very informative and interesting though it stretched a little lot.
by Prof. Sanjay Jain on 'Origin of Life' at 10:30, but due to some reasons it was postponed to 11:30. Prof. Jain is a physicist working at the University of Delhi. Prof. Jain talked about the evolution of life on earth, that is the coming into being of the first single-celled organisms. He talked about the internal structure and the chemical composition of a cell or a bacterial cell specifically. The lecture was very informative and interesting though it stretched a little lot.
After his lecture, there was the lunch break. From 1:30 students followed their daily routine...
As the day followed a changed routine, the enthusiasm increased a lot. Moreover, when the students left to their homes, they shall think, 'Is there a 4th dimension?'- Flatland
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To be continued....
The two pictures of Prof Jain's lecture depict two parts of his speech. The first slide has a calculation of just how unlikely it is that the particular mix of complex molecules and relations needed for cellular life could have arisen purely by chance. The second slide shows how the impossible can become possible due to the capacity of complex interacting systems to automatically generate self-organization, through "auto-catalytic" sets. Such a set may take a very long time to come into existence - but once it does, other structures quickly start forming around it. Some of these are parasitic while others extend it.
ReplyDeleteThis lecture had... i don't know about others but it had me held in awe!!!!!!!
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