Life, the universe, nothing.

Last Friday I had the privilege of going to a talk by CERN physicists Dr. Archana Sharma and Dr. Mick Storr. While the talk itself was unremarkable due to lack of technical depth (they tried to make it accessible to non-physics majors in the audience as well, but didn't, leaving no one satisfied). But it wasn't a wasted day. Before the talk began,...Read More

Very human. Well, having seen my promptness in reply, the reader is likely to doubt my, humanness. No. I am not a fish. To some extent well. Picture yourself on pier. The rustic reclaimed wood lies inches from the calm, collected lake. From the side, the deep brown of the wood meets the violent green of the moss in an everlasting battle for...Read More

Edison is known for a lot of things. The wizard of Menlo Park. The giver of the light. The inventor. A man of such accomplishment though, had a very interesting thing to say about human knowledge, at its height in the nineteenth century. “We don’t know 1% of a millionth of anything.” 1% A millionth. We have discovered so much in the last...Read More

Rutherford is known for many things, most importantly his act of splitting the atom. It was a revelation. The un-splittable, had been split. Rutherford had seen into the very eyes of god. Stared for seconds, before god left. But he said something in subsequence. “All of science is either physics or stamp collecting.” Stamp collecting. Bug naming. Taxonomy. Taxonomy is the act of...Read More

Three, is what most people would tell you. They would be half correct. The current physical theories work well in 4 dimensions. They are length, breadth, width, and time. Time? Well yes. The best way I have found the concept of time as a dimension to be explained is this. I need to provide my co-ordinates to a fellow human, to meet for...Read More

I like to look at the way my brain works from time to time. Look deep within, and search for the source code that runs this immensely stupid, yet sophisticated program. Deciphering this code is fun. It lets you have unreal control over your metal capabilities. You control your thoughts and actions, not carbon based natural compounds. But I hit dead ends sometimes,...Read More

For a quick background, the Fibonacci spiral is this: Each arc joins two ends of a square, whose each side length is the corresponding number in the Fibonacci sequence. Basically, the first square has side length 1, second, 1, third, 2, fourth, 3, fifth, 5 and so on. The idea is that this spiral is everywhere: Image courtesy: scm.ulster.ac.uk Image courtesy: richardnilsen.com Image...Read More

Frankly, yes. Unless of course you are referring to the great ‘Grandfather Paradox’ a time paradox that has been perplexing physicists for way too many years. In a nutshell, it intends to disallow time travel to the past, by saying that if you went back in time and killed your grandfather, you would disallow yourself form being born, raising the question, if you...Read More

If you’ve done high school trigonometry and high school physics, you probably have heard of the sine function. For those of you don’t know, it is a function, which takes in an angle as a parameter and returns the value of the opposite side divided by the hypotenuse in a right triangle amongst other things. In a right triangle with an angles A,...Read More

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Well, in between sophomore year and a new project I'm working on, I completely forgot, that April 26th marked a full year of this blog. Man. A full year. I've written 34 posts, clocking over 20,000 words. I've learnt how to write better, and I've learnt so much. I now love physics far more than I ever have. I want to thank all...Read More

You’d say this is too philosophical for this blog. It’s a physics blog. A blog of pure mathematical thinking. You’d be wrong. The Ship of Theseus. I have been wanting to cover this topic for a while, but it was only recently I found a rather interesting application of it in the world of science. But I’ll start you off with a quote...Read More

The standard model of Particle physics by CERN is a worldwide accepted model of the structuring of an atom, and its sub-atomic particles. This is the model that explains phenomenon from the burning of stars to the 3 states of matter. Initially, atoms were thought to be the smallest units of matter. Later 3 sub-atomic particles, protons, neutron and electrons were discovered, and...Read More

Evolution is a weird puzzling thing. Looking at examples of evolution is so infinitely counter-intuitive, it is impossible to settle. Every time I hear something in biology class, like 'cacti have leaves in the shape of thorns to prevent water loss', I am perplexed. How does that comply in any conceivable respect? Prevention of transpiration is not the reason for this adaptation, it...Read More

Yes, internet, it is indeed true that Einstein has been proven right. And thank you once again, for stopping right there, rather than finding out what he is right about. I, right here, am going to answer the most persistent questions of humanity. Einstein wrote 2 papers, one on the theory of special relativity, in the year 1905, about relativity for non-accelerating objects...Read More

If you've watched any of the 'Back To The Future' movies, you've probably had a laugh over how they predicted the development of technology in what is the present now. Or the past actually. That's right. The future of those movies, (21st October, 2015) has already passed us. So when our man McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, comes to 2015, he is...Read More

So yesterday I was thinking about information, trying to define it. And I came to the most generalized logical solution I could get, it is a lack of chaos. The chaos of organizing a party is reduced if all your guests have information on when and where to come. It makes perfect sense. So after finding the answer with impure logic, I decided...Read More

So I watched the first day first show of Star Wars Episode VII yesterday. First things first, I am a huge Star Wars fan, and I loved the new movie. But, there were some technical issues with the movie. So in the spirit of Christmas, let's begin. 1. Light is too slow.  Laser beam blasters are a star wars staple. But, lasers should...Read More

Hello... Friends? Readers? Internet? Spartans? So, as you all definitely do not know, I have a youtube channel now.  It's a physics talk show, with a hint of scientific talk show. Think xkcd plus John Oliver. So you can find it right here. ...Read More

It’s a stupid question, isn’t it? It’s just the ‘stuff of nature’ around us. It’s the science we stand by and the ground we stand on. Why am I bothering writing all of this down? Why am I even here? This is what Enrico Fermi asked the world around him out of what he describes as ‘utter frustration’. He hasn’t gotten an answer...Read More