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  • What is Science !

    What is Science !

    How much do I really appreciate what Science is ! A question I have asked in my mind and I have pondered for a while in answering, while writing this article. I have always found this sort of out of the circle thinking a favorite pastime of mine. As far as I can recall, into…

  • Is “time” a mystery !!

    That answer stuck in my mind for ever, I thought to myself I would never say something is a mystery when we know so much about it. And as Physicists that’s all our motivation is all about. Not only to find answers to mysteries but also to keep an enthusiasm for every crazy idea that…

  • A few thoughts on religion and science

    We don’t need monasteries, but we need laboratories and libraries and universities and downtowns with a lot of bars. Without the laboratories we will be tyrannous to our families, without the universities and libraries we will be wonderers but without the bars and hang-arounds our creativity will be like a dead man’s dreams. Science is…

  • Why Odisha needs Vedanta University?

    Why anyone would want such a University or academic establishment in a community. The reasons are very clear. We want to extend our educational systems to the best in the world. This is a prime goal of any civilized modern society. To have the best of the education, research and scientific body of knowledge. To…

  • The thickness of hair from a diffraction pattern, science of a different passion

    The thickness of hair from a diffraction pattern, science of a different passion Sometimes in 2007 or early 2008, this picture was taken (with a camera fitted on a mobile phone.) It captured a unique diffraction pattern by accident (serendipity!!). I did a preliminary analysis to determine the thickness of the hair of the person…