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Tag: history of science

  • Why Bose is not the scientist after whom Higgs is named.

    A very few particles (out of 1000s) are named after scientists, eg the so called mu meson was called a Yukawa Meson, although it turned out to be a misnomer. Mu-meson was found to be a lepton, rather than a meson, as was thought by Yukawa and others. Now called Muon it belongs in the…

  • Growing Above All.

    What we conveniently forget is what I just parenthesized as “Ethereal Relativism”. Before Einstein’s work, the ether was taken to be something that gives motion a sense of absoluteness. Ether was the absolute measure or reference of motion, therefore all motion seemed to be known as absolute. But its widely silent that Galileo and Newton…

  • Happy birthday Scientists, James Joule.

    It’s the birthday of James Joule, who was born in 1818 in Salford, England. Joule was a commercial brewer in Manchester. His work inspired an interest in physics and in the nature of energy. In a series of experiments, he demonstrated the convertibility of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy. The SI energy unit, the joule,…

  • Happy birthday Scientists Dr. Fock.

    #mdashf #birthday3 A hearty laugh that emancipates when we talk about his contributions. Many Many happy returns of the day to Soviet Scientist DR. Fock. And scientists not only know sin or gays but also fock. “And we don’t give a ** cos its your birthday”. Here is his contributions as enlisted by excerpts of…

  • The beauty of astronomy.

    The beauty of astronomy.

    Above our moon, are seen the planet Jupiter with its largest 4 (out of 67? ) moons. The moons as discovered by Galileo were known as Callisto, IO, Europa, Ganymede. IO is volcanic with fatal levels of nuclear hazard on its environment while Europa is Icy. Today, the phenomenon of aura produced on Jupiter’s moon…