Tag: Indian-science

  • LIGO in India? You must be kidding …

    I was pleasantly surprised that this experiment is slated to come up in India, yes, with a whopping 250 million dollars investment into science in India is perhaps the only 2nd instance of massive science euphoria. And they are both directly or immediately so, in my field of research, although the first one INO isn’t…

  • 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…

  • Why India can go to Mars and not the atom?

    Why India can go to Mars and not the atom?

    Whats the electron’s electricity bill? Our democracy has made it easier that if every person pays a little particle physics is really not that expensive, even less expensive than Diwali, Diwali comes every year. A lab for example would stay for 3 decades if opened. I worked for a particle lab whose cms energy for…

  • Status of Mars Orbiter of India !!

    Status of Mars Orbiter of India !!

    A beautiful formula for what angle an object in space extends at you? Its the (diameter-of-object / distance -of-object) ratio is the tangent of that angle. Then, the farther the object is the smaller the angle becomes maintaining the tangent value of the angle in that ratio, because the object will have a fixed size/diameter.…

  • India’s maiden near billion kms Mars Mission status !!

    Mangalyan !! A near billion kms mission to Mars. Click on image to go to astrowatch.net website to read the article.