The Chaotic-Neutron

Well there is not much in the post but this following excerpt from the post conveys my point !

This week we had contacts with high-level representatives of a couple of non-member countries that are participating strongly in the LHC programme. Last Wednesday CERN was visited by the President of India, Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam. Born into a modest fishing family, he studied science, then became a rocket engineer and the father of the Indian missile and satellite programmes. He met Indian teams working at CERN to test LHC magnets and on Grid software, as well as the usual CERN bigwigs. He is the first head of state I have met who knows about the Standard Model of elementary particles !

I loved that last line … Believe me, you have no idea how great that feeling can be … If you are a coder, try explaining the intricacies of your code and design to your manager. And if he does understand you perfectly well, then you will know what i am talking about

On a sidenote, I have always admired Dr. Kalam for his initiative in making India a better and technologically (well specifically in military science !) competent country in the recent past. I have read about some of his contributions to the Indian nuclear industry and heard real life narration of some of the tests that he spearheaded at Pokhran which decisively gave India the respect it deserved. He is the czar of Indian technology and science and has worked on the Space, Missile and Nuclear aspects of technology. Bloody cool huh ?! And now, in his new role as the president of India, he sure as hell is striving hard to improve the quality of education in India to make it a better and learned country. Someday soon, his dreams of making India into a technological superpower will be realized … Three cheers to that !!!