Albert Einstein, known for that great equation, wrote four papers in the early 1900s which changed our understanding of the world. These papers, the first one on the radiation and the energy properties of light, the second on the determination of the true size of atoms, the third on the jittery motion of microscopic particles in liquid and the fourth on the electrodynamics of moving bodies which employs a modification of the theory of space and time and its addendum, which had the relation between mass and energy destroyed Newton’s concepts of absolute space and time.
What is interesting is that Einstein found out all this by conducting thought experiments, such as imagining what it would be like to ride alongside a light beam and being in an enclosed elevator accelerating through space. One of the thought experiments used to explain relativity of time is called the Twin Paradox.
This is sometimes described as the “twin paradox”: two identical twins, one of whom goes off on a voyage close to the speed of light, and the other one stays home. When the space-traveling twin returns home, he or she has aged only a little, while the twin who has remained at home has aged at the regular pace [Sagan on Time Travel]
In Malayalam Cinema we have something called a “reverse twin paradox” which can be explained using Mammotty, Kavya Madhavan and Ambika to show that sometimes it is the space traveler who ages. Long time back, Ambika used to act as Mammotty’s heroine. Then she went on a time travel, got married, did various other things and came back to Malayalam Cinema. In the movie Annorikkal she stars as Kavya Madhavan’s mother. Now Kavya Madhavan is going to act as Mammotty’s heroine in Nasrani which means that we should not be shocked when we see Ambika as Mammotty’s mother-in-law in future movies.
In the Twin Paradox experiment, the space traveler did not age compared to people on the ground, while in Malayalam Cinema, the heroes on the ground (and it is not just Mammotty or Malayalam cinema) have not aged, while others have. If Einstein were alive, he could have written another paper on this.
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May 30, 2007 at 4:41 am
oh! god this is the funniest way you can put this matter across….
Let them do it, heroine or mother-in-law. After all if every friday you need a movie to watch, you can’t have a Schindler’s list or Lord of the rings or Spiderman.
June 1, 2007 at 7:59 am
Something like the Mamooty-Ambika-KavyaMadhavan space age story.
Atleast Mamooty and Ambika paired only on screen.
Whats happening in bollywood –
Amrita Singh is playing Vivek Oberois mom in Shootout in Lokhandwala. Vivek Oberoi was Rani Mukherjees Husband in Sathiya and Saif ali khan was Rani mukherjees husband in Tararampam and Humtum
So in effect Amrita Singh is like Saif ali khans mother
where as in real life she was wife for more than a decade !!!
Years before Nargis played mother to sunil dutt in mother india, but that was before they got married and nargis was playing a role ahead of her age.