सोमवार, 4 दिसंबर 2017

The Luster of Periodic Table and a Blue Hat


Earlier today, I was looking at my good old lazy blog for correctness of a punch line, which goes like this - "Madness is busy in playing games with mind to violate the laws of conversation". It started a minor chemical reaction of sorts in brain - I'm still not sure if it stimulated the right brain a bit or left brain. But as the matter of writing is facts as well as creativity, I would assume it would have at least said "hello" to both the sides. 

It was after I had long stared at Dmitri Mendeleev's photo in my laptop wallpaper, which is a funny but inspiring piece with the top part printed with: 

"STAND BACK!
i'm going to try SCIENCE"

and bottom part printed with:

"AND OTHER AWSOME SHIT TOO!".   

In between the printings, on the right side, there was a picture of the great scientist with a beaker in one of his hands and he was pouring a chemical from the beaker to another one staying still in the other hand. All this while looking at the chemicals with focused experienced eyes. He, the inventor of periodic table, in his long white beard, a bow tie, cream shirt and well pressed 3 piece suit. The background of the wallpaper had one of the most striking tables of our teen age years - The "Periodic Table" (AAVART SARANEE) itself.

As I looked at the different letters spread out on the table, young years of life started painting its own pictures. The series of letters went like H - Li - Be - B - C - N - O - … - Na - Mg - Al - Si - P - S - K - Ca - … Pt - Au - … Bh - Hs - Mt…  I hardly could take my eyes off the atomic numbers and atomic mass for some time and the patterns followed by these numbers. I was lost in thoughts with the chemistry going haywire again after a long hiatus of 20 years and thoughts of the kids trying to figure out the best way to make Oxygen in a lab.

Sky was full of colors coming from different chemical elements, minerals, gases and metals, but then about an hour later, it started turning to its original colors - a sky blue sky. Life after 20 years started taking over - Cyber Security and Sales started occupying my thoughts.


I wanted to say loudly that the sky is not as sky blue today as it generally is. But then how blue is Copper Sulfate (CuSO4.5H2O)? But then why there are no blue hat hackers?

- Neeraj Mathpal
Dec 4, 2017

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