Scribbles from a curious mind!

Last Wednesday; Mankind achieved the unthinkable when astronomers captured the 1st ever image of a black hole thru the "Event Horizon Telescope" or EHT for short. The EHT is a network of telescopes that are scattered through out earth, from the US to Spain to Chile to Antarctica etc. All of these telescopes captured image data that was later assembled together as a giant jigsaw puzzle by a sophisticated computer algorithm. This was such a milestone that the world of science is still buzzing with excitement and paying homage to human ingenuity and Einstein in particular, who rightfully predicated the existence of black holes so many years ago. But something was missing from all of it, nobody was praising, initially, the person that made it all possible...Three years ago; Katie Bouman, then a grade student in computer science and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led the creation of a computer algorithm that went thru millions...

“I think, therefore I am.” Congratulations; You are a human being! A social primate; born with the ability to develop speech, walk on two feet and the largest brain (brain to body ratio) in all of the primate species. Although having a big brain and intelligence are 2 totally different things but I am sure you already know that...just look around! Your brain’s fused with a “cerebral cortex” that is loaded with 16 billion neurons, greater than any other species on earth! And since you are not jumping up & down, singing hallelujah, let me explain what that means; Think of neurons as a “cellular” app, used by the brain to send and receive messages to or from your body. Over all your brain has 86 billion neurons which are rapidly passing information; ranging from your muscle movements to what you see, smell or taste, etc. Now: if neurons are a messaging service the cerebral cortex is a very sophisticated smartphone that controls most of your existence. It is home...