THE PROBLEM WITH APPLE

"THE PROBLEM WITH APPLE"

It was the year 1666 C.E. The plague had closed many public buildings and meetings. Newton had to leave Cambridge. He shifted to Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, the house where he was born, to contemplate the stellar problems he had been pursuing at the university.

He was sitting under a tree obsessed with the problem of the orbit of the Moon around the Earth and the influence of gravity.

And then that Apple fell on his head! And the students of physics got an additioal "LAW " to cope with :

" . . . . that any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. " (Demands quite a fine- tuning of mind to grasp the meaning!)

I find apples creating problems everywhere. ADAM, the first man on planet Earth, soon got into serious trouble after eating an apple. He was thrown out of the garden of Eden after he shared one with Eve. He should have avoided eating it. He had clear instructions  There were other fruit trees too and there was no ban on eating any other fruits. He could have eaten an Alfonso mango or a banana. And see how the humankind now  suffers the curse for that solitary apple. There seem to have been no curses on the human race before Adam and Eve disobeyed. (Well there was no human race for that matter!)

You know the story of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". The apple is here too. Just to make you recall it with ease here is an excerpt:

" . . . .After turning into the Witch, the
Queen declares that Snow White should suffer "a special sort of death". Looking through her spellbook, she comes to the recipe for the Sleeping Death, and, reading of the poisoned apple's effects, decides that it's the perfect way to get rid of her . . . ."

The question here is " Why an apple? why not a pineapple ?" . And the  answer is that Apple creates problems. Elementary Dr. Watson!

Talking of these medical chaps  called "doctors", apple has been declared a threat to their profession. Remember what your Grandma had told you : AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY! I I am not very sure about the other "doctors" -  the PhD and D.Litts - but I guess their families also avoids eating apples to be on the safe side. I know atleast one management professor  whose wife eats a lot of apples. For a long time now, he has been on peripatetic lecture tours !

And now the smartphone company that fell in love with Apple is also in trouble. See this report:

"Crunch time for Apple as it prepares for face-off with FBI"

What might happens at this week’s congressional hearing as the iPhone maker continues to defy last month’s court order over phone encryption?

New York police officers on guard outside the New York Apple Store last month as the company’s battlewith the US government rages. ---

Sam Thielman New York and Danny Yadron San Francisco
Saturday 27 February 2016
(The Guardian) 

And that blessed Globe Theatre script  writer known as Shakespeare maintained that names did not at all matter !!

“ What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
(William Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet)

But ofcourse he was a smart guy. He avoided mentioning Apples except inadvertently in "Hamlet.