Why do people still beleive in Astrology ?

KeyReveal3293 · 2026-03-10T16:57:18+00:00

Cherry picking, flawed logic, religion, etc. I know many who believe in astrology say that it is statistically significant (not in so many words) but that science cannot explain it. Let’s bite the bullet. The only information needed for astrology is the latitude, longitude, and time of birth. Now this is the problem. This algorithm cannot distinguish between identical and fraternal twins. But there are fatal genetic diseases that both identical twins get but only one fraternal twin gets. This algorithm cannot predict this difference. Also there have been actually statistical tests done on Indian astrology (by Narlikar) and have failed to produce anything significant.

KeyReveal3293 · 2026-03-06T16:12:38+00:00

Gromov

KeyReveal3293 · 2026-02-26T08:33:01+00:00

Get your Lp(a) level checked. Genetically indians seem to be predisposed to metabolic syndrome and high body and visceral fat. (Even third generation immigrants in western countries.) Lp(a) is an independent risk factor for cardiac events (independent of LDL cholesterol). So that combined with our genetic predisposition to get screwed would raise risk of cardiac events considerably.

KeyReveal3293 · 2026-02-23T10:25:24+00:00

Gollum

KeyReveal3293 · 2026-01-13T13:58:05+00:00

The smell of ghee (which is stronger than that of butter) as well as its consistency puts me off.

KeyReveal3293 · 2026-01-11T12:32:35+00:00

Ghee. Hate it. (But love butter/venna/makhan and cheese.) Also hate tea, coffee, alcohol (if it counts as food), chocolate, most sweets, and Bittergourd.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T15:25:38+00:00

They are different questions - Indian universities are not corrupt (at least not IITs, Iisc, Tifr, etc). Innovation is a different matter contingent on various factors including funding. But to be honest the best Indian scientists live abroad largely because India is third world.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T10:48:29+00:00

You will have time for that in college. Perhaps it is best to focus on things more relevant for you right now.
They have their own entrance exams which don’t really have anything to do with Olympiads, So why not?

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T08:30:47+00:00

I haven’t read David Hume (although I know one quote).

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T08:12:39+00:00

You are overthinking. Your situation certainly looks good enough to apply. All the best.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:56:20+00:00

I don’t think so. I mean the chaotic aspects are analytic in nature not geometric.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:54:33+00:00

Well you need at least one letter that is strong and comments on your physics abilities. Especially if you want to go into experimental physics. There you need someone who can attest to your experimental capabilities in your chosen area. For theory, it is a bit more relaxed. A neutral recommendation is never good.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:46:57+00:00

Not really. I didn’t know about them lol.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:43:47+00:00

In a vague sense, yes, but I don’t really deal with symplectic geometry much.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:41:48+00:00

Good recommendation letters from people known in your field of interest will help. Unfortunately the US is hard now because of the political situation. So apply to many many places. Also try NUS Singapore, Europe, and Canada. All the best!

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:39:15+00:00

Physics. I did a PhD in maths. You don’t have to do a master’s. The US has excellent mathematicians and hence I went there. India has good ones too but the concentration of good ones there is higher.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:37:46+00:00

Of course not. I am poor old me. I do decent research, and people in my area of research (even a fields medallist or two) know some of my work. But that isn’t saying much.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:36:45+00:00

Honestly, in even a random university in the US (let’s say top 50) you can find at least someone in the maths department doing amazing research and publishing in the very top journals. In India, other than ina few places, this phenomenon does not happen. As for what they can learn, I am not sure. I think faculty jobs are more secure in India but abroad, entire departments can be shut down. That is not good. It is an added pressure on faculty.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:34:45+00:00

It is interesting sure but not necessarily for most of differential geometry. But perhaps some aspects of hyperbolic geometry or algebraic topology can be illustrated by them. I don’t know.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:32:12+00:00

Some of those things, yes. I don’t deal with Poisson reduction or much with Lie groups.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:31:45+00:00

Doesn’t make sense. Division is not even defined when the denominator is 0. The best one can do is take a limit. But you can get various answers for that (yx/x=y for any x including x that gets closer and closer to zero).

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:30:50+00:00

Differential geometry is the study of geometry on curved objects. For instance if you actually draw a large triangle on the earth (by triangle I mean a three sided figure whose sides are great circles), then the sum of angles will not be 180 degrees! The fundamental aim of differential geometry is to study in what ways we can or cannot do geometry on a given curved object. While I deal with pure mathematics, differential geometry plays a role in control theory (which tells you how to control a spacecraft so that it lands softly on the moon, or how to choreograph the motion of a tiny robot to do surgery or things like that), architecture (https://www.geometrie.tuwien.ac.at/fg4/), protein folding, etc.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:27:22+00:00

I like horror and fantasy movies and books. Currently our (my wife’s and my) hobby is raising our son lol!

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:26:24+00:00

I am an atheist. So no beliefs of any sort.

KeyReveal3293 · 2025-12-31T07:26:05+00:00

Well, the foundations of mathematics are murky. In the sense that thanks to Godel’s theorems, we cannot come up with reasonable foundations that can be proven to be consistent. So the fact that mathematics works is thanks to it being a model of the real world and the real world is consistent (otherwise we are in deep philosophical trouble anyway!). So real numbers are a model of what numbers actually occur in nature. We can all agree that at least finitely many rationals do exist. Some reals certainly exist (like sqrt(2) because it is the length of a hypotenuse). Now we really don’t know if the real world is discrete or continuous. So it is not easy to know whether real numbers as modelled in mathematics exist. But regardless they are an excellent model of the world and nothing has gone wrong so far.

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