Though with time science, technology and society have changed, the spirit of adventure, exploration and curiosity still resides in us. And it is this spirit that pushes us to reach and cross our own limits.

A case for the Realilty of Imagination

Some of us are so obsessed with truth that we forget the importance of imagination and imaginary things in our lives. Here's a good case made in South Park (by Kyle, the guy in orange shirt and green hat).

(Watch the full 3 episode series to make sense of the rest of what is happening)

When I look at my childhood days I see inspiration from so many fictional characters that I had imagined myself to be like. As for the real personalities, I always filled out the unknowns about them by default with good stuff. I don't think I am even remotely a person like anyone of them, but they definitely have had a significant influence on who I am today and what I am pursuing in life (though I don't really have clear picture of it yet, but intuitively I believe I am doing something productive/positive ;) ). They have been the biodegradable scaffold to the tissue I am today (Tissue Engineering joke :D).

Imagination also plays a vital role in research as it enables setting good initial values for us to explore and come up with a accurate solution. Again very well articulated by Neil deGrass Tyson one of his interviews on the daily show as the "Creativity of Discovery".

"....allow me to say that when you are on the frontier of knowledge between what is known and unknown, reaching out into that abyss, sometimes you do actually have to make stuff up that might be true so that you can organize a research plan to find out whether or not it is."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)

In life, to progressively survive, the pursuit of imaginary things is as important as the pursuit of the real ones.

Snow melting on neighbor's bike

Finally it snowed in Salt Lake last week and like snow an idea snowed out on seeing the bike in the parking lot while getting ready for school. Here's the output. Enjoy!!