There are quite a few interesting articles on Einstein’s work in the Current Science Special on Einstein.
I noticed this thanks to Woit. Contributors include David Gross(Nobel ‘04),Atiyah(Fields ‘66 ,Abel ‘03),Ashoke Sen,Ashtekar,Narlikar amongst others.
T Jayaraman of IMSc has an article on Einstein’s Political Thoughts! .
I havent read any of these articles in detail..So, no [...]
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Current Science Special on Einstein
Posted in Physics on January 10, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Noether’s theorem
Posted in Physics on January 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I had earlier made a post about Clifford’s post on the “Greatest Physics Paper”.
It is always fun to talk about history of physics and this thread certainly served that purpose. I also thought that Clifford had intended to have a debate and then run away…
But, surprisingly, he has come back to the post and [...]
One year of Quantum Diaries.
Posted in Blogs, Physics on January 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Physics year is now a thing of the past. And quantum diaries , a project where numerous physicists from around the world blog about their daily lives and physics, has also reached its target lifetime of one year. A review of the past one year’s experience (by the Editor,QD) can be found in the [...]
Remembering Prof.Raychaudhuri
Posted in Physics, Science on December 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Prof. AK Raychoudhri, one of the doyens of the Indian Physics Community, passed away in June 2005. He is probably one of the most under-recognised scientists of his time. Frankly, I had not heard about him till I learnt some Gen.Relativity. The famous “Raychoudhry Equation” is a crucial tool to understanding GR and played an [...]
GMRT.. recent stuff.
Posted in Astronomy, Physics on November 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
This isn’t a post explaining GMRT to everyone (like my SDSC post). I would love to do it.. but even a reasonable explanation will take a long time to compile. Here , I have just collected a few media reports reg GMRT:
I came across this article on TIFR and its outposts in the latest [...]
Physicists and their way with words/names…
Posted in Physics on October 22, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Copyright, Bill Watterson
This is just a collection of thoughts…not necessarily well-connected.
Communicating cutting edge Physics research to the public is something that is very tough. Very few physicists even try..and even fewer end up making an impact. Every time a physicist meets people who are not trained in the Physics jargon, she/he could have a [...]
A Warning to Physicists…
Posted in Physics on October 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
from Prof. Pavel Etingof from the Math dept of MIT.
I came across this interesting “warning” while browsing thro MIT ’s wonderful Open Course Ware site. He advises physicists not to take his course titled ” Geometry and Quantum Field Theory” , as he thinks that it would be [...]
The Greatest Physics Paper.
Posted in Physics on August 19, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Clifford (of cosmicvariance) has started a debate to decide on the Greatest Physics Paper. This is ofcourse a matter of preference..but a debate on such topics can be a nice way to look back at the wonderful history of Physics and Scientific Thought. So.. if u have special choices, go and comment there. Current favorites [...]
