Tag: history of science

  • Jupiter, Europa, their love game.

    Jupiter, Europa, their love game.

    But how magnetic a personality is Jupiter? Jupiter’s magnetism is bigger than Sun’s and earth’s. A fact that certainly excites its lovers. This hubble image shows how plumes of water are sprayed into its own atmosphere by icy Europa which the armor Jupiter splits at the atomic level by throwing electric charges at the water…

  • L. Susskind on Feynman. (vs Gellman on Feynman)

    Rather than the venom Murray Gellman was spewing on Feynman, this talk by L. Susskind is very balanced. It does not heap a load of self-created baloney about the personality of someone else because you don’t like them or you want to exhibit your pretension that you don’t. So much for being a scientist, luminaries…

  • Wolfram and Feynman, Why Feynman was meticulous ?

    Stephen Wolfram on Feynman; (Dr. Wolfram is in in my FB friend list, I am not tagging him, lets see if he finds us talking through him, about Feynman) (Wolfram) You’re a great speaker; what are you worrying about?” He (Feynman) said, “Yes, everyone thinks I’m a great speaker. So that means they expect more…

  • The Discovery of Subatomic Particles by Steven Weinberg .. review

    I own this book but haven’t read through much of it. Excellent history of particle physics. If one aspires to write books for Physicists and allied scientists one shall follow the ethos behind such book .

  • The economic myopia of India and how it affects our resolve for education

    I was taking a little time off and I find that I was thinking more of economy, so it is more like if you trigger your mind to take up on what is brewing inside you may find more than you already said. Quantum Mechanics, you can not completely cut any branch off it’s stem,…