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Tag: Albert Einstein

When cooling down really means slowing down

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Consider this post the latest in a loosely defined series about atomic cooling techniques that I’ve been writing […]

May 5, 2020 Scicomm

Why are the Nobel Prizes still relevant?

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Note: A condensed version of this post has been published in The Wire. Around this time last week, […]

October 16, 2019 Culture, Op-eds, Science

Disentangling entanglement

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There has been considerable speculation if the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for physics, due to be […]

October 7, 2019 Scicomm

Can gravitational waves be waylaid by gravity?

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Yesterday, I learnt the answer is ‘yes’. Gravitational waves can be gravitationally lensed. It seems obvious once you […]

June 16, 2019 Scicomm

The science in Netflix’s ‘Spectral’

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It’s fun to think about the implications of a film’s antagonists being modelled after a phenomenon I’ve often read/written about but never thought about that way.

January 9, 2017 Life notes, Science

Parsing Ajay Sharma v. E = mc2

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An Indian scientist’s disputes with Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence betray a misreading of how one of history’s most famous equations came to be.

January 14, 2016 Scicomm

Much ado about the Bose in the boson

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At a conference in Kolkata in September 2012, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear […]

October 13, 2013 Science
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