Going back to basics...

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.