The Veritas Voice

Big Bang and Birth of the Universe The cosmos is a magical place. It covers a massive area filled with stars, galaxies, black holes, and more. Stars are huge burning balls of gas, even hotter than your hot chocolate when you forget to let it cool. Black holes are like giant vacuum cleaners in space that are so strong, not even light can escape them. Everything we see today, including us, comes from one single event called the Big Bang. Big Bang: A start from zero About 13.8 billion years ago, all the mass and energy of the universe was squeezed into something smaller than a point. Then suddenly, everything began to expand. For the first 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds (that’s 10 to the power of -34), the universe was still extremely tiny. It was just 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001 meters across and had a temperature of over 100000000000000000000000000000000000°C. That’s hot enough to vaporize metal in milliseconds. If you try writing out that number on the blackboard...

 An Eventful Night Susan was tossing and turning in bed. It was past midnight. Suddenly a loud scream was heard from the street below. She sat up with a jolt. The bedroom window opened with a bang. The icy December winds entered the room, chilling Susan to the bones. The scream came again, this time it was shriller than the last. Susan walks to the window, her wooden floor creaking with her footsteps.  Susan saw a woman walking through the street with her left leg twisted, leaving a trail of blood as she dragged her leg, screaming deliriously.  Susan’s eyes widen as she slowly walks back to her bed, wondering what to do.  After a while, Susan realised that the screams had stopped. So she went to check. She saw that the trail left behind by that lady had stopped in the middle as though the woman just disappeared into thin air. Susan decided to investigate and ran down. As she ran to the scene she heard chatter. "Well! Amazing, Ellie!, I really got chills." Susan saw a...

“Computers make excellent and efficient servants… but I have no wish to serve under them.” – Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series Generative AIs are answering all our questions, pondering over our every dilemma, completing all of our intellectual and personal tasks. Are we silencing our minds, by not allowing them to think ?  Technological advancement is most beneficial when it does the things that humans do not need to do. Tasks with no meaningful outcome beyond routine, survival and maintenance. Like your laundry, or your dishes. What happens when you get an assistant to do all your thinking for you? Even searching on Google for a simple query feels like a task when an AI can understand the most specific of requests and provide a tailored answer within seconds. Thinking  is the one quality which separates us from mere animals who are driven by instincts. Without reasoning, what separates us from animals, or even each other? The separation of individual from individual is t...

 I had encountered a lot of different personalities in people or maybe in a person (subject). Human beings are weird creatures, their own sub-conscious could kill them. How funny and fascinating are brains. Yes, growing up I wondered what makes a person react in a certain way, is it their upbringing or is it just the situation. I often introspect my own reaction to the same situations but different subjects. If this person did this to me and I reacted like this and if someone else did I would have reacted in a total different manner.  Subjects and reaction have a strong relationship with each other. Subjects and situations form reactions. For example, your parents called you an intelligent person because you've earned a lot of profit from the start-up you started, but what if a really big start up owner congratulates you on your success, calling you intelligent? You would be on top of the world.  Subjects matter and this is a really broader outlook example. We often unkno...