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For space, frugality is a harmful aspiration
Ref: ‘ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission to cost lesser than Hollywood movie Interstellar – here’s how they make it cost-effective’, staff, Moneycontrol, February 20, 2018. ∞ ‘Chandrayaan-2 mission cheaper than Hollywood film Interstellar’, Surendra Singh, Times of India, February 20, 2018. ∞ The following … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandrayaan, ESA, frugal engineering, frugal innovation, gravity, hollywood, Indian Space Research Organisation, Interstellar, ISRO, K Sivan, labour costs, Mars Orbiter Mission, Moneycontrol, NASA, NASA MAVEN, public sector undertaking, quality control, Times of India
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Why do we need dark matter?
The first thing that goes wrong whenever a new discovery is reported, an old one is invalidated, or some vaguely important scientific result is announced has often to do with misrepresentation in the mainstream media. Right now, we’re in the … Continue reading
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Tagged AMS, CoGeNT, dark matter, Fermi-LAT, gravitational lensing, gravity, LUX, velocity dispersion, XENON100
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Which way does antimatter swing?
In our universe, matter is king: it makes up everything. Its constituents are incredibly tiny particles – smaller than even the protons and neutrons they constitute – and they work together with nature’s forces to make up… everything. There was … Continue reading
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Tagged AEgIS, ALPHA, anti-hydrogen, antimatter, CERN, gravity
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A different kind of experiment at CERN
This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on January 24, 2012. — At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, experiments are conducted by many scientists who don’t quite know what they will see, … Continue reading
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Tagged AEgIS, ALPHA, antimatter, antiproton decelerator, CERN, gravity, particle physics
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