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Category: Thoughts on Science

  • I say these are the few characteristics of good scientists:

    I say these are the few characteristics of good scientists: The ability to over come inhibition (and have inhibition as a necessary attitude) Comfortable with oneself under criticism and under rejection. Not just hard work but enterprise and a way out of adversity. Clarity, carity, clarity ….clarity clarity clarity (clairvoyance) Intuition, imagination, knowledge, technique, method, skill, labor.…

  • The Convenient choice

    Once the famed emperor Akbar (the great) ordered his citizens for establishment of a pond. Birbal (his most clever employee) instructed them to pour milk over night so the pond is filled with milk instead of water. The following morning the pond was found to be an ordinary water body. Everyone thought the rest of…

  • Why nothing moves faster than light !!

    There is an interesting discussion on twitter why “nothing can move faster than light”. I could not resist myself from a simple explanation I also think a similar one might have been given by Einstein himself, long time ago, so forgotten by most when they try to explain it. How does something go faster !!…

  • What’s Force in quantum mechanics?

    If we discover a hitherto unknown (new) particle it just means it had been changing the wave function amplitude but we did not know of it.

  • Just a note on signal analysis

    I was thinking about this a little..well from experience of the past decade (mostly more tha 3 years ago): When high energy physicists impose their selection criteria they usually think by making such criterion very tight (strict cuts) they end up removing more background and by increasing the figure of merit they have a clean…