Tag Archives: cosmology
‘Surface of last screaming’
This has nothing to do with anything in the news. I was reading up about the Big Bang for a blog post when I came across this lucid explanation – so good it’s worth sharing for that reason alone – … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bang, cosmology, last scattering surface, phase transition, recombination epoch, scattering, thermal equilibrium
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Jayant Narlikar’s pseudo-defence of Darwin
Jayant Narlikar, the noted astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, recently wrote an op-ed in The Hindu titled ‘Science should have the last word’. There’s probably a tinge of sanctimoniousness there, echoing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, cosmology, fluid dynamics, Jayant Narlikar, Navier–Stokes equations, Niels Bohr, original of life, principle of correspondence, quantum coherence, quantum gravity, Quantum mechanics, theory of evolution
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As the ripples in space-time blow through dust…
The last time a big announcement in science was followed by an at least partly successful furor to invalidate it was when physicists at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy, claimed to have recorded a few neutrinos travelling at faster … Continue reading
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Tagged B-mode, BICEP2, Chennai Mathematical Institute, cosmology, gravitational waves, inflationary paradigm, multiverse
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The Big Bang did bang
The Hindu March 19, 2014 On March 17, the most important day for cosmology in over a decade, the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics made an announcement that swept even physicists off their feet. Scientists published the first pieces of evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, BICEP2, cosmic microwave background, cosmology, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, polarization
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