Deep Thinkers

Why is Science so interesting, exciting and is like a never ending mystery? This question always wanders in the minds of people who are deep thinkers. One thing that is for sure is that the progress of Science once initiated cannot be ever stopped. It will go on finding new routes during the course of time and often dividing to give birth to new branches of knowledge. The best analogy of the above mentioned sentence would be thousands of roots of a single tree.

The database of knowledge that humans today have must be 100 times more intense than what we were knowing just 10 years ago. I do not know what level of Science awareness we shall have 10 years down the line.

Information is streaming continuously from all directions, from deep space and also from deep microscopic world of bacteria, viruses, atoms, quarks and God knows what is there at the base of the most smallest piece of element known to us.

Currently our latest spacecraft in the space is MESSENGER which is going near the planet Mercury and the Sun and on its way is feeding us with whatever information it collects. So we have spacecrafts that are going near the Sun and also spacecrafts which are trying to go as far as possible from the Sun. The Voyagers are almost at the edge of our Solar System. They had left us in 1977 and are still drifting towards the interstellar space away from the Sun. Currently they are wandering in a area where no human-object has ever gone and thus what pieces of information they send is invaluable for the humans. You shall read more about Voyagers in this issue of Kids Science. You have already read about MESSENGER, Cassini-Huygens Spaceprobe and Mars Rover in the previous issues.

In the year 1905, the most renowned scientist Albert Einstein had published five papers that revolutionized Science. Next year, 2005, marks 100 years of the publication of his famous papers.

Considering this, next issue of Kids Science shall be a Commemorative Issue which shall cover various aspects of Einstein's life and work.