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Tag Archives: experimental physics
Worlds between theory and experiment
Once Isaac Newton showed that a single gravitational law plus his rules of dynamics could reproduce the orbits of planets that Johannes Kepler had predicted, explain tides on Earth, and predict that a comet that had passed by once would … Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS detector, experimental physics, Heinrich Hertz, Higgs boson, Isaac Newton, Jean Perrin, Johannes Kepler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Large Hadron Collider, leptons, Ludwig Boltzmann, neutrinos, New Physics, particle collider, particle physics, quantum field theory, Standard Model of particle physics, weakly interacting massive particles
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Caste, and science’s notability threshold
A webinar by The Life of Science on the construct of the ‘scientific genius’ just concluded, with Gita Chadha and Shalini Mahadev, a PhD scholar at HCU, as panellists. It was an hour long and I learnt a lot in … Continue reading
Cabinet approves India-based Neutrino Observatory
On Monday, the Prime Minister’s Office gave the go ahead for the India-based Neutrino Observatory, an underground physics experiment that will study particles called atmospheric neutrinos. The project is based out of Theni in Tamil Nadu, and the Tamil Nadu … Continue reading