Ratul

[Ratul @7WingWizard]

Difficulty of house hunting > Job hunting

[Ratul @7WingWizard]

Cape Verde... What a debut to the WC !
Amazing discipline. 🙌

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

He was Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist whose quiet brilliance in the 1920s forever altered our understanding of the quantum world.

In 1924, Bose, then a 30-year-old professor in British India, sent a groundbreaking manuscript directly to Albert Einstein. The paper offered a novel, more elegant derivation of Planck's law for blackbody radiation by treating light quanta (photons) as indistinguishable particles—a radical departure from classical statistical methods. Impressed by its insight, Einstein personally translated the work into German and facilitated its publication in the prestigious Zeitschrift für Physik.

This exchange sparked a brief but profound collaboration. Einstein extended Bose's statistical approach to material atoms, predicting a bizarre new state of matter at ultra-low temperatures: what we now call a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), where particles behave as a single quantum wave. Bose's original framework became known as Bose-Einstein statistics, and the class of particles that obey it—those with integer spin, including photons, gluons, W and Z bosons, and the Higgs boson—was later named bosons in his honor by Paul Dirac.

Unlike fermions (matter particles like electrons), which obey the Pauli exclusion principle and cannot occupy the same quantum state, bosons can pile into identical states en masse. This "social" behavior underpins extraordinary macroscopic phenomena: the coherent light of lasers, the zero-resistance flow in superconductors, and the collective quantum coherence in BECs.

Despite the monumental impact—his statistics describe half of all fundamental particles and enabled key advances in quantum field theory, condensed matter physics, and particle physics—Bose remained remarkably unassuming. He continued teaching at universities in Dhaka and Calcutta (now Kolkata), mentored students, pursued ideas in X-ray crystallography, unified field theory, and other areas, and never sought the spotlight. Nominated several times for the Nobel Prize (notably for Bose-Einstein statistics and his later work), he was never awarded it, and his name rarely appears in popular accounts of 20th-century physics.

There's a poignant humility in his story: a man whose legacy literally names one of the two fundamental families of particles in the universe, yet whose personal fame never matched the scale of his contribution. Bose reminds us that true influence often arrives without fanfare. Some breakthroughs echo through textbooks and technologies, while their creators work in the background, content to let the universe carry their ideas forward—even if history's spotlight rarely finds them.

[Ratul @7WingWizard]

@airtelindia terrible network on postpaid connection and frequent congestion since last 4 weeks. Concern raised multiple times yet no resolution.
Unable to browse the internet due to network issues -any solution?

[Money Quotes @MoneyQuotesX]

If it was easy,
everyone would be rich.
It’s not. That’s the point.

[Ratul @7WingWizard]

@IndianOilcl Indane gas bill generated on 13th April, but still not delivered.
Called customer care- couldn't connect.

Kindly look into this. @PetroleumMin

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

The way everyone checks out of work on Fridays is a clear sign we need a 4 day workweek.

[Sunderdeep - Volklub @volklub]

Ask them who they were supplying these fake toothpastes to, identify the supply chain companies or individuals involved.

Catch these people and investigate what other counterfeit products they are supplying. Find out who is taking a cut at every level, from top to bottom. Hold shopkeepers accountable as well if they were knowingly selling these fake toothpastes.

You have to close and kill the loop from A to Z.

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

Sachin Tendulkar once shared that he used to visit the temple before every match, often at 3-4 AM, drink water from the tap for energy, and pray to Ganesha.

What started as a habit became a ritual he followed until his final game in 2013.

[Computer @AskPerplexity]

Perplexity Computer replaced $225K/yr in marketing tools in a single weekend.

We built an AI marketing agent that scans hourly, manages budgets, detects fatigue, and coordinates several campaigns end to end.

In one test run, it made 224 micro-optimizations to our ad stack.

[Yuvraj Singh @YUVSTRONG12]

Back-to-back #WorldChampions! Defending a #WorldCup takes character and this team led by @surya_14kumar played with real intent on the biggest stage! 🇮🇳

@IamSanjuSamson @ishankishan51 @OfficialAbhi04 were outstanding in the final. Sanju, across the opportunities showed again why he’s a match winner. Ishan was consistent right through and played a solid role in India’s run. @IamShivamDube @hardikpandya7 shifted momentum at will when the game demanded it.

@Jaspritbumrah93 was truly special, the tougher the situation the better he got! @akshar2026 was magical with the ball, picking up crucial wickets, with Hardik, @arshdeepsinghh and #VarunChakaravarthy keeping the pressure on throughout.

Congratulations to coach @GautamGambhir and the entire support staff as well! A lot of hard work goes into moments like this!

India, World Champions again. 🇮🇳🏆

@BCCI

#ICCT20WORLDCUP #INDvNZ

[Ratul @7WingWizard]

@JioHotstar @hotstar_helps what's the point of having a Premium 4K plan when the livestream for the t20 final seems more like a 480p stream.
4k videostream disappeared after a few minutes of the match! This has been happening for almost all the matches for India.

[Aditya Kondawar @aditya_kondawar]

In early 2024, executives at Walmart noticed something strange in their data.

Nothing dramatic at first — just a subtle shift.

Customers were buying slightly fewer:

snacks
sugary drinks
packaged desserts

At first, the analysts blamed inflation. Maybe people were cutting discretionary spending.

But when the company dug deeper into its massive consumer dataset, a surprising pattern emerged.

Customers who were taking Ozempic or Wegovy were spending less on food overall — and dramatically less on high-calorie products. They weren’t switching brands. They were simply buying less food. The discovery stunned executives.

For decades, the entire packaged food industry had been built on one assumption: People will keep eating more.

But now a pharmaceutical injection taken once a week was quietly rewriting consumer behavior.

One Walmart executive summarized the discovery bluntly:

“We’re seeing a real reduction in calories purchased.”

For the first time, a drug wasn’t just treating a disease. It was changing the economics of the grocery aisle.

Businesses can face competition from anywhere :)

[Indian Super League @IndSuperLeague]

The VYBK in all its glory! 🤩

#ISL12 #EBFCSCD

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: 1 hour and 37 minutes have passed since the release of Interstellar in October 2014, on Miller's planet.

[𝒵𝒾𝓀✯ @_Gottalovezik]

remember those days when you missed school and you'd check the time and think "they're eating right now"

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

A high light pole fell on a moving Creta car, killing a politician

Now politicians are also not safe

India is just one big set of Final Destination

[Ratul @7WingWizard]

@IndianOilcl Gas cylinder booked on 26th Jan, but delivery has not been made. Despite repeated complaints, (Service Request NO. 1-1463593457613 and 466313720572), no action has been taken. Got a message with status saying it's delivered. This is fraudulent activity.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Spectacular timelapse of an aurora and Moon-rise over Earth from the International Space Station (view fullscreen).