Wasiq Bokhari

Ideas, Entropy, Imagination, Future, Creation, Analysis, Finite, Wonder, Barrier, Communication, Numbers, Symmetries, Words, Patterns, Flux, Encapsulation, Voice, Ignorance, Threshold, Seconds, Basics, Experience, Invisible, Miracle, Muddled, Beckon, Fear, Trust, Humiliation, Beginning..


Wasiq lives here!

Don’t mind the mess. It’s entropy, you know, which always increases. So I have stopped worrying about it. Find a place and make yourself comfy, no matter if you are sitting on my clothes or papers. Watch out for the keyboard though, it’s somewhere under that pile.



Personal History
In the beginning was a quantum fluctuation, then there was inflation, then expansion slowed and there was cooling. Then there was light and matter, and its aggregates. Thermonuclear reactions started. The first borns died, and new generations started from their ashes. Chemical reactions on relatively cold bodies, the rise of the Replicator molecule, the first cell, the emergence of biospheres, the first intelligence. Accumulation of knowledge, digital computers, externalization of the individual mind, and now these words on your retina.

All else is irrelevant!



Work
I do what I like to do. The fact that what I like to do is also my profession is just an added bonus. I mean wouldn’t you like to get paid doing what you love? I am a particle physicist, which means that I create and study fundamental particles of matter. I get to spend my time at some of the most sophisticated laboratories in the world, play with the most advanced and intricate instruments and technologies in the world and spend my time working with some of the smartest people alive. As you can well imagine, I do not need to die and go to heaven!



Interests
Actually there are only a few things that do not pique my interest. Those include conformity, lack of imagination (actually I do wonder how some people can be so incredibly blase given all that life has to offer), pettiness and of course, the evil of all evils, laziness.

Apart from these, you can successfully engage me in anything in the Milky Way (or even anything outside of it). I may not be an ’expert’ but I will certainly catch your drift.



Final
Heard around the continuum:

Who are the digerati? Wears his hat to deny his head. Is self-conscious option enough? At first sight do you perceive the full potential of a circumstance? Imagine, you had an experience. The great personal hallucination: he. Is there an imaginary question? Which questions have disappeared? Paper bullets of the brain. He whistled e=mc2 all year long. I can repeat the question but am I bright enough to ask it? Exalt idea. Do all possibilities exist in any? He’s trying to hold on to his body, his life: it’s a horrible experience. He still has a notion of possession. If you can’t say it, better believe you don’t know it -that’s the guise of easy mystics. The question becomes the argument becomes very complexing because people demand explanation. Think yourself away? A single line can be a complete autobiography. But these are only words.

(Thanks to James Lee Byars & John Brockman)

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