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Since he did not trust their ability, he himself was forced to look into and take decisions on numerous minor matters. Was it not too short, I asked, specially if it involved a change of platforms? The booking clerk assured me that it was ample. Our importance in this event will not be felt unless the audience is kept waiting for half an hour or so. The only striking difference was that while almost all advertisements were in Japanese and hence beyond our ability to read, this one was in Devanagari. The teacher started filling an empty bucket with small pebbles. This happened because he had refused to delegate part of his work to senior colleagues. He put in pebbles to the extent possible and asked: “Is the bucket full now?” “No,” roared the class now aware of what was going on.
It is our experience that punctuality as a virtue has not been appreciated in our country.But there was a second part to the above demonstration. The teacher now filled the gaps with sand and later by water.The scientist may call the above property the irreversibility of the flow of time. All the participants (except me!) were very distinguished personalities like Hoyle, Feynman, Wheeler, Morrison, Chandrasekhar, Grunbaum, Bondi and Gold, etc. When he filled it, he had no space left for large stones! The moral? If you keep doing small jobs you may discover that you have no time left for your important big jobs. Their daily timetable sticks to the specified schedule. I was reminded of it several years later when I was visiting Japan with my wife. He put as many stones into the bucket as he could and asked the class if the bucket was full. He was Cambridge University’s Senior Wrangler in Maths in 1959. From our limited knowledge of Sanskrit later supplemented by flowmeters for sale the help of a professor of Sanskrit we got the gist of the statement. However, giving it a technical name does not imply that the phenomenon is understood! Just as we can move in space in any direction, top-bottom, East-West, North-South, can we likewise move freely into past and future? We can’t. I was recommended a route, which involved a change of trains at an intermediate junction with a time gap of eight minutes. “Yes,” said the class but the teacher shook his head.
A teacher brought into his class a bucket, some large stones, some small pebbles, some sand and a pot full of water down from the train we went to read the ad and figure out its significance if any Jayant V NarlikarThe writer, a renowned astrophysicist, is professor emeritus at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune University. The chief guest drew the VC’s attention to the time delay and asked if they should start for the auditorium where the event was arranged. The mindset vis-à-vis this happening is illustrated by one example. I experienced an example when booking a train ticket in Japan.” So if a VIP is half an hour late in arriving, the VVIP will see to it that he is late by one hour.I came across an example of this when a director of an institution complained that his administration took so much of his time that he could not do any of his academic work.Given the importance of being punctual, there are further aspects of how we use our time. The central topic for this meeting was the nature of time, including its unidirectional flow. That is where his time went!end-ofTags: devanagari, sanskrit, japan. After a stimulating discussion lasting five days the bottom line was that the apparent one-sided flow of time is hard to explain.
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