Tag: education

  • My PhD Thesis, Preliminary Exam !

    But my own PhD thesis is a kind of different tale altogether. For my work there is no CP Violation. In CP Violation two leptons (electrons and positrons are leptons) are imparted quite good amount of energy and made to collide against each other. Thus just like in CERN lab, there is a much smaller…

  • 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 Harvard does not promote education.

    Its when we teach that we ourselves realize how effective our research quality is. As is said by the giants usually Einstein and Feynman “If you can’t explain it in simple terms perhaps you don’t understand”. So basically how can we be sure that the research Harvard is doing is applicable to validity or even…

  • House is to brick what society is to family and …

    Apply this to the education system, we can’t criticize the students, the teachers or the admin for ever, once a reasonable bits and pieces of them (and only that no less) is in place we can’t go on around criticizing the same. WE can’t blame the teacher for ever nor can we blame the students…

  • The 1 ppm mentality of India in education.

    This article talks about some educational paradigms of India but gives the following anecdote to the end. Belated Happy Feynman Birthday. 11/may/2013. He was born this day in the year 1918. 8 years younger to my maternal grand father. Which is why I am always amazed by Feynman. My grand pa was a farmer in…