Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Something interesting here?

    Quora has this; \sqrt 2 + \sqrt 3 ~= \pi. I see some good use. \sqrt D + \sqrt D+r ~= A [D; diameter, r; radius, A; area] Is this a new relation? and this another; 2\sqrt (D.r) + D \sqrt 3 = C OR even; D (\sqrt 2 + \sqrt 3) = C. well…

  • A new optimization parameter in a statistical sample !

    It reflects the quality scope of the citations. Its the total percentage of a citation that goes into defining a particular citation index. Let me call it q-index therefore (q for quality) See this example. My h-ind is 60. So total (minimum) citation it accounts for is 60*60 = 3600. My total citation is 12215.…

  • The quality of a scientific paper … A casual reposition.

    The quality of a scientific paper are not ZERO if citation is zero. Perhaps we need to define two parameters, quality and significance of scientific communication. Quality; a well done research in the best traditions and methods available. Significance; the outreach of the paper to bring effect into others work and others understanding toward the…

  • 3 myths of physics, especially in textbooks.

    2. Last year in a text book in Indian High School curriculum, I spotted and corrected with my students, the following: Myth; there are only 3 quarks that have been detected or FOUND/confirmed so far, in nature. Its based on a knowledge that was true more than 3 decades ago. All quarks, 6 of them,…

  • Why is the helicity for a mass-less particle Lorentz invariant?

    Result; now that photons are mass-less, their energy, momentum, speed, etc are no more variables, in the sense of arbitrariness. They are constants, taking only a few values, but constant in a given situation. But other particles have these properties; arbitrary. So electrons energy and momentum are not fixed, but arbitrary. But as long as…

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