A different kind of experiment at CERN
This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on January 24, 2012. — At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, experiments are conducted by many scientists who don’t quite…
January 2013
Aaron Swartz is dead.
This article, as written by me and a friend, appeared in The Hindu on January 16, 2013. — In July, 2011, Aaron Swartz was indicted by the district of Massachusetts for allegedly stealing more than…
LHC to re-awaken in 2015 with doubled energy, luminosity
This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on January 10, 2012. — After a successful three-year run that saw the discovery of a Higgs-boson-like particle in early 2012, the Large Hadron Collider…
There’s something wrong with this universe.
I’ve gone on about natural philosophy, the philosophy of representation, science history, and the importance of interdisciplinary perspectives when studying modern science. There’s something that unifies all these ideas, and I wouldn’t have thought of…