The Double Guru: Layers of Witnessing

The Guru Effect

Obscurity of expression is considered a flaw. Not so, however, in the speech or writing of intellectual gurus. All too often, what readers do is judge profound what they have failed to grasp. Here I try to explain this “guru effect” by looking at the psychology of trust and interpretation, at the role of authority and argumentation, and at the effects of these dispositions and processes when th...

GURU vs

After centuries of little change, the role of the Guru or a teacher as it has been traditionally defined and practiced in Thailand and the rest of South East Asia is on the verge of becoming an anachronism. Now it is Google, not the Guru who has all answers to the big questions of life and learning. New and emerging pedagogies are harnessing the power of Internet and Communication Technologies ...

Filamentary double layers

The properties of double layers produced in current filaments have been studied. The experiments were performed in a magnetized triple plasma device in which the diameter of the central plasma column could be varied. The scaling of the double layer potential drop I’,, with the parameter jd’, where j is the current density in the double layer and d is the double layer thickness, was determined f...

The GURU System in TREC-6

Electrostatic interaction of oppositely charged double layers

We determined with anisotropic hypernetted chain theory the effective pressure and counterion excess of two oppositely charged surfaces immersed in an electrolyte solution. These thermodynamic properties are enhanced in surfaces with evenly smeared surface charges with respect to those containing confined mobile charges. For low surface charges and moderate reservoir salt concentration ions are...