Long time back I heard that Feynman once mentioned that
when you are with lack of ideas you should go back and teach.
Teaching basics can bloom some new ideas. There are some
friends at HRI who do not buy this concept as they want to
concentrate on research and think that teaching could kill
their times. Perhaps this is true for them who does something
like string theory which deals with so many basic mathematical
techniques. But for the poor fellow like me who deals with
what is known a "phenomenology"; sounds like a joke as the
meaning of this should have been the ideology which can
explain the phenomena but what we do here is, create our own
phenomena (by our own model) and try to have some signature
for which colliders will be ready (God knows when!!). In the
process we are in avalanche breakdown of the learning
process. We stop thinking of basic phenomena and explaining them.
I was thinking of what is the way to be back in the main stream
of thinking process. Publishing more and more papers and
more and more collaboration will pile up you own mind. In
this juncture of career staying out side the country with out
having any discussion with people it is very difficult to search
for something new. Then suddenly my mind stuck on
something; "Thermodynamics" which was the favourite
subject during my undergrad. But I never applied this to my
research. Simply there are many such areas which you loved
to study and see. The most powerful idea of resuming your
dream or rethink is to go and teach these basics. I am sure
you can do that can see a lot more and explain much more.
Idea just doesn't come by sitting in your desktop and doing
simulations for just another model. I pray for the opportunity
to go to my basics and feel very very thirsty to be able to
apply these which can be a real contribution.
