Tag Archives: Kenneth Wilson
A physics story of infinities, goats and colours
When I was writing in August about physicist Sheldon Glashow’s objection to Abdus Salam being awarded a share of the 1979 physics Nobel Prize, I learnt that it was because Salam had derived a theory that Glashow had derived as well, taking … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged Abdus Salam, charge screening, colour charge, cutoff factor, Kenneth Wilson, off-shell, phase transition, quantum chromodynamics, quark self-energy, regularisation, renormalisation, Sheldon Glashow, virtual particles
Comments Off on A physics story of infinities, goats and colours
Where the Indian infiniteness?
I didn’t know Kenneth Wilson had died on June 15 until an obituary appeared in Nature on August 1. He was a Nobel Prize winning physicist and mathematician whose contribution to science was and is great. He gave scientists the tools to … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged asamkhyeya, Avatamsaka Sutra, inclusivity, infinity, Isa Upanishad, Kenneth Wilson, Thomas Cleary
Comments Off on Where the Indian infiniteness?