What Nano Technology taught me……………!

This is my first ever post in these ‘blogs’. So I am not a professional or an expert in writing blogs.…Why I say that at first is, you can just close this window if you feel that this useless fellow has no other job than writing some ‘idiotic’ and ‘senseless’ blogs or in short a ‘mokkai’... J So I warn friends! Please do close this window if you feel so!

So that’s the introduction, as to what I am gonna discuss here. But I repeat! Please do close this window if you feel so, right now. And I also do not want you to say “I have really wasted time reading your blog!”. But please note that I am not going to discuss the engineering part of it.. So then it must be interesting only…:P

Fine… So that’s ok… I can get into my topic now… So the topic says ‘What nano technology taught me’. So then it’s my duty to first define what nano technology is… The term ‘nano technology’ is a little abrupt term. Why I call that abrupt is, the words do not convey the full meaning, as any teacher would expect precise answer from students.

The word is just like the word ‘Oorugai’. Does the word ‘Oorugai’ convey full meaning to you? No right??.. Because, is it “Oorina Kai” or “Oorugindra Kai’ or “Oorapogum Kai”. Similarly, the word Nano technology can be taken in these ways – Is it the technology of making products of nano scale??? Then how are we going to handle such small particles… So the catch is we are gng to produce items with nano particles to make the product with better properties and features.

So that’s the definition part of it. And its study is important because many natural forms are only in nano scale... What about the human cells…. They are in nano scale and its malfunctioning can lead to various diseases.

The concept of nano technology is also well discussed in Indian literature part… especially in Tamil…i.e. “Kanninun Siruthambinal kattunnappanniya perumayan” Lord Krishna was tied to a pillar by Yasoda. He increased his belly size and all ropes got detached. Thus Yasoda was highly troubled and she wanted to cry in front of Krishna so that he could understand her plight. After having seen that, Krishna allowed himself to get tied, but to a special rope which is “Kanninun Siruthambu” i.e. a very small rope with very little knots. So that’s just to tell how Krishna was tied to a nano rope… Interesting right?? Am happy J

All that’s okay.. But the topic is “What nano technology taught me” And I have not touched even a bit on that! Having said all this, I must quickly come to the point… The above paragraphs s just like adding water for preparation of noodles….Yet to use masala to make it tastier… So ill start….

As said earlier, nano particles, are particles of the nano scale, used to prepare products of great properties and characteristics.…. Thus, the nano particles are of such small sizes and can perform wonders! Yes!!!!! WONDERS!! They can turn ‘colourless’ objects into colourfull substances! They can covert fuel to a poison, render an inedible substance edible, replace a pungent odour with a fragnant one and so on…. Such small particles having great consequences!! And I want you to realize that, and appreciate all that is said above! I mean about nano particles and not my words! After all...they are ordinary words and my words are not energetic and sufficient enough to completely appreciate them! So assume that I have not even shown you a drop from the ocean! The rest is up to you to imagine…..

All right…. So then, what was taught to me by Nano technology???? -And another point here… All poets personify various things to show their skill in writing poems….But now that I have said “What nano technology has taught me”, does it mean I am giving it human qualities, and I am making it speak and teach me??? So does it mean I am a good poet?? No way!!! So then, I should have put the title as “What I learnt from Nano technology” right…? Thought about that for a while and again changed the title back. Why??? Because of the occurrence of the letter “I” in that. Never should one think “I did it, it was all possible because of me etc…” They are dangerous statements capable of pushing one to the most pathetic position that the person would have not even imagined. So the moral here is that it was not me who learnt from Nano technology, but the other way round….

The first thing I was told was, “Never think things that are small are ineffective” I have seen people in ma life who are extremely intelligent and loaded with stuffs to the maximum possible extent and are short”. Here the adjective ‘short’ is just one among the adjectives used. The shortness is definitely not a cause for concern.

“Moorthy sirusa ka irunthalum Keerthy Perusu” goes a tamil saying! Meaning, the moorthy is small i.e. the figure being talked about and keerthy refers to the knowledge. Just appreciate the saying as to how it supports the very concept of Nano Technology! J And that’s why I really respect tamilians. Their various sayings have a brilliant scientific background! Another example is the saying “Pon kidaithalum, Bhutan Kidaikkathu!”. “Pon” is gold! Gold was a rarity in those days! And that’s why they lead a happy life! They were never greedy of money and gold… But time has changed and now we see lots of ‘greedy’ people shopping in “Thanga Maligai” under the false belief that buying gold on “Akshay Trithya” day, will result in down pouring of gold coins from the ceiling! Never shall it happen! The least thing that can happen is the complete failure of foundation and collapse of ceiling! There were great mahans who led a peaceful life without a penny in their hand! Continuing with the explanation for the saying, we are left with the other part – “Bhutan Kidaikkathu”. “Bhutan” here does not refer to Wednesday! It refers to the planet “Mercury”. So the complete essence of the saying is that “It is even possible to get gold, but not mercury!” I am fond of this particular saying as it establishes the fact that it is impossible to spot Mercury, the planet with naked Eyes!” Tamilians had discovered this particular fact long back even before NASA scientists could do! This accounts for their immense knowledge in Astro-physics!

The second thing is “Uyarvu enbathu manathil iruppathu, Udalil iruppathalla!” Meaning, we need to be a taller person, not wrt to height, but wrt our qualities! A tall person with no good qualities is just like an animal that knows nothing! You can call a person tall if he is bestowed with all good qualities!

So that’s it with this particular blog! I shall definitely try to make a better one next time! Please feed in your comments…….!

- ∫.∫rikrishnan