Monthly Archives: August 2012
Assuming this universe…
Accomplished physicists I have met or spoken with in the last four months professed little agreement over which parts of physics were set-in-stone and which parts simply largely-corroborated hypotheses. Here are some of them, with a short description of the … Continue reading
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Tagged bosons, compactification of extra dimensions, gluons, Millennium Prize, non-perturbative string theory, quantum chromodynamics, quantum field theory, Yang-Mills theory
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“God is a mathematician.”
The more advanced the topics I deal with in physics, the more stark I observe the divergence from philosophy and mathematics to be. While one seems to drill right down to the bedrock of all things existential, the other assumes … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerator physics, elegance, G. Rajasekaran, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, mathematics, philosophy
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First, there are two simple axioms: that a particle can represent two states at the same time (superposition), i.e. 1 and 0, and that the information contained by a particle is destroyed the moment it is read. Braid these principles … Continue reading
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How many of you are familiar with the concept of a Google Hangout? Better yet, how many of you are web developers and are familiar with the concept of a Google Hangout? I assure you, the number in answer to … Continue reading
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What smells like a harmful thought?
A lot about our biology is intertwined with our culture. When such an association is encountered for the first time, it could sound interesting, intriguing even, but with time, it becomes an evident relationship because our culture plays an important … Continue reading
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Tagged associations, Culture, mind, olfactory sense, upbringing
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How often do we do things just because someone else we used to idolize did them in the past? When will we start doing things in the present such that they’re the best things for us to do in the present? More … Continue reading
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The Girl in Blue
How often have you seen that girl who makes you stop whatever you’re doing, and just marshal all your faculties into attention so you can ensure you never, ever forget her face again? It happened to me for the first … Continue reading
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Tagged beautiful, memorable, memories, sensations
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Graphene the Ubiquitous
Every once in a while, a (revolutionary-in-hindsight) scientific discovery is made that’s at first treated as an anomaly, and then verified. Once established as a credible find, it goes through a period where it is subject to great curiosity and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Geim, Electromagnetism, graphene, Konstantin Novoselov, NEMS, non-volatile memory, revolution, thermodynamics
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKyPQbZFr38] I read about this development about a week ago, and I still don’t know what I think about it. As a feat of engineering it is beyond par-excellence, and that is where I stop to take a few … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, jellyfish, rat heart cells, silicone, synergy
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