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Physicist Ken Wilson Passes Away
Physics Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson Dies ———————— Mickey Atwal (@MickeyAtwal) said - and we fully agree. Very rarely physicists are awarded Nobel prize for mathematically beautiful theories,...
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Schrodinger’s Lost Notebook from 1925
It is odd that everyone is interested in Schrodinger’s cat, when they should be looking for his notebooks Schrodinger was unusual among the theoretical physicists of his time, because he bloomed very...
View ArticleMore is Different !!
The hype about discovery of Higgs boson easily competes with Facebook IPO as the most overrated event of 2012. London Independent reports - Discovering the so-called Higgs boson particle would be one...
View ArticlePhysicists are Looking for Large Hadron Collider’s Replacement
Two days back, we penned the following text regarding discovery of ‘God’ particle. ” From the same USA today article - The idea is much like gravity and Isaac Newton’s discovery: It was there all the...
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Did Josephson Lose His Mind or Was He Ahead of His Time?
[Edit. Professor Josephson was kind enough to send us an email with corrections on few points. We incorporated them in the text with markings as 'Corrections'.] Few days back, we wrote about ‘sixth...
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Getting PhD for Master’s Thesis
My MS thesis was on calculating electrical current through small molecules connected between big metallic surfaces. We used Green function method, which is another way of calculating wave functions in...
View ArticleFeynman: Mathematicians versus Physicists
Also check - Mr. Feynman Wasn’t Joking And there was an element of suspense: He liked to think out loud, wrestling with tough questions in real time. You weren’t sure where the talk would go, and...
View ArticleLinks to a Bunch of Useless Papers
1. Heisenberg 1925 In this paper, Heisenberg wrote the mathematical rules to connect classical mechanics with quantum observations. If you like to track modern quantum mechanics to its read, this is...
View ArticleCan Algebraic Geometry Contribute to Condensed Matter Physics?
Our detour into math and physics will be concluded with this commentary. Algebraic geometry is the branch of mathematics that used to study the roots of polynomial equations and thus connected geometry...
View ArticleNew Breakthrough in High-Tc Superconductivity?
I had quite a bit of interest in high-Tc superconductivity. It was the first giant bubble I experienced before moving to silly-con valley in the dot-com era. Despite pouring of immense amount of money,...
View ArticleDiscovery that Neutrinos Have Mass Gets Nobel Prize in Physics
Yesterday the French sites searched for Nobel prize, but nobody seems to care today. Even the Canadian internet sites are not bragging about a Canadian physicist winning the award. That is very good...
View ArticleCondensed Matter Physicist Leo Kadanoff Passes Away
I was sad to learn from Jason Chin that eminent condensed matter physicist Leo Kadanoff recently passed away. He was definitely among the smartest people around. Although I never met him personally,...
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