I've often come across simple questions from my lower grades and failed to answer them. For reasons I'm unsure of, their number is increasing day by day. Or perhaps I've been fed the same simple explainations I used to accept as a kid. They taught electrons in the eight grade, and do even now. Once a guy asked me, 'are they spherical'? and I found myself racking my brains. They never mentioned that, did they? They are perhaps waves, and waves aren't spherical; wait...I did read about spherical waves somewhere...or whatever. Nuclear reactors continue to appear in books with those 'Simple Block Diagrams'. How the heck are fuel rods made? One confusion drags in the next one, until I find myself a bit illiterate. I couldn't define flux once. And messed up with it's dimensions another time. All I know about motors is that they've a coil rotating because of a magnetic field. Or rather the core rotating because of the torque, or perhaps a couple.
Science is one thing. Sometimes I wonder whether Parvez Musharraf is dead or alive. I know no news, and I'd believe you if you told me India's GDP was 5678 million something. How much would it be? I don't know how much power a lift consumes, or even do the simple estimation on the number of burgers going out of McD in an hour. I don't know how much cement costs, or in what year Alexander died. And by the way, where's Columbia; not in Asia surely?
Let's call it a lack of touch, or may be age's catching up, eh?
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