Category: Education

  • What is it like to be in an Ivy League. Just a musing.

    The other aspect is from my own experience, while you are highly qualified, you are perhaps no more pouring in as much as even you would like to pour in, in terms of real research. You or your employers don’t want you to go into controversies, because they drain you out of wit and the…

  • Uncertainty Principle Again.

    2. The object can be a large object, eg say something whose picture you are taking. But as explained above its not the energy of the object (or momentum) which is directly coming into the problem. That would be an added degree of concern if the object is moving with certain velocity, a reason why…

  • Review of Gravity, the movie, discussions.

    A discussion on Space movie Gravity, which I saw recently. I remember one fact, that concerns, Physics, the roughly 50000 miles an hour (correct?) speed of ISS level debris that was coming, it set me thinking, are they violating the Relativistic Laws? For a while, and then I realize its per hour, not second, (that…

  • Whats Light. A small primer.

    A small primer on optical attributes of Light. Manmohan Dash, ( — largely edited, 18-19 January 2014, originally from; Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 3:58 pm UTC + 05:30 ) Updated Discourse. If you ever seem, to be caught up between: they say light always moves at the same speed-c, they keep on harping, why…

  • When India failed English.

    “Pakistan is advanced than India, in how it accepts English, as a non-primary language. ~50% of people in Pakistan ( — total ~ 90 million) are speakers of English, compared to 12% of India (125 million out of > ~ 1.20 billion). In percentage terms, all non-native English speaking countries, like Nigeria, Pakistan or Philippines…