Monthly Archives: October 2012
The notion of the Nobel Prizes
Some points generated during a discussion with a friend: The Nobel Prizes used to be definitive of the orientation of scientific research in the past; however, staying on top of all recognition now is impossible as fields of research have … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged mobilization, Nobel Prizes, recognition, science prize, Yuri Milner
Comments Off on The notion of the Nobel Prizes
A note on the Nobel Peace Prize, 2012
Across six decades, the European Union has stressed repeatedly on the importance of democracy and human rights. In the process, it set up a system that offered great humanitarian, and therefore popular, benefits to nations willing to join it. In … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged European Union, governance, Nobel Peace Prize, peace
Comments Off on A note on the Nobel Peace Prize, 2012
Nationality of news
Just saw this news-tweet by the Hindustan Times: Indian scientist discovers giant super-massive black holes http://t.co/s3Qm4OoF #ht — Hindustan Times (@htTweets) October 9, 2012 Clicking on the link and opening the news-report, I see that it was a team of … Continue reading
The Symmetry Incarnations – Part I
Symmetry in nature is a sign of unperturbedness. It means nothing has interfered with a natural process, and that its effects at each step are simply scaled-up or scaled-down versions of each other. For this reason, symmetry is aesthetically pleasing, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged anastomosis, asymptote, Banach-Tarski paradox, Big Bang Theory, cellular automata, degrees of freedom, electro-weak symmetry breaking, fractals, Gilbreath's conjecture, hypercube, Large Hadron Collider, Mandelbrot sets, Mulliken symbols, Nambu-Goldstone bosons, prime numbers, surface tension, symmetry, thermodynamics, V.S. Ramachandran
Comments Off on The Symmetry Incarnations – Part I