A gear-train for particle physics
Clockwork theory has been revived and reformulated by scientists from CERN to solve a difficult problem at the heart of particle physics.
Month: March 2017
Titan’s chemical orgies
New studies of Saturn’s moon Titan should make it more familiar – but the more we learn about it, the more outlandish Titan gets.
Happy Lord of the Rings Day
On this day, let’s read a chapter or two from the trilogy and remember what an enlightening experience reading the books was.
One in a thousand
Couldn’t pull myself away from reading Rajini Krish’s posts all of yesterday
Some notes on empiricism, etc.
The Wire published a story about the ‘atoms of Acharya Kanad‘ (background here; tl;dr: Folks at a university in Gujarat claimed an ancient Indian sage had put forth the theory of atoms centuries before John Dalton showed up). The story in question was by a professor of philosophy at IISER, Mohali, and he makes a solid … Read more