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.... HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU ARE..

  . ... HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU ARE ...🔭🔭 The quest to unravel the secrets of the universe was so eloquently conveyed in the ever-green nursery rhyme "Twinkle twinkle little star..." by poet Jane Taylor.    Ever since, as a young child, I heard this recited by my kindergarten teacher, I had been curiously gazing at the night sky.   The child's curious mind never had stopped asking for answers. Partly this, and partly, at my dad’s insistence, the habit of reading and listening to news around the world, got me hooked to the mesmerising endeavours of humankind to explore the heavens. The equations describing laws that govern how nature works always made me wonder about what kind of    an intuitive meaning could be attached to it. That led me to spend more time understanding them. It often led to experiencing a feeling of great euphoria when I managed to unravel some of this, occasionally. Mathematics and physics became more of a passion and less of lesson...