Diploma In Radiological Physics from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
2 minutes read Are you looking for career options after Master’s in Physics? Then this post might have an answer for you. A
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Origin and fate of the universe
7 minutes read For centuries, the origin of the universe has been a great mystery for humans. Was there an exact beginning of the universe? Or was it here all the time? These questions remain hypothetical because no one knows exactly how our universe began. On the earth, we are provided with all the resources we need to survive, but still, we look up to the vast infinite universe. Why are we so concerned about outer space this much? Perhaps it’s our mere curiosity that drives us to dive into the mysterious birth of the cosmos. Scientists say that the universe began 14 billion thousand years ago with a massive explosion called the big bang. But, is that real? This article focuses on the basics of cosmology and some important studies regarding the big bang.
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Turning bricks into batteries using nanotechnology
4 minutes read |Difficulty level: Medium| In 2019, three scientists namely John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino shared the Nobel
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Quantum Darwinism: Survival of the fittest
5 minutes read The physical laws needed to understand the quantum world differ greatly from those of the classical. Quantum Darwinism provides a framework to explain how microscopic properties collapse into macroscopic ones. It introduces new concepts namely pointer states, einselection and decoherence and promises to bridge the gap between the large and the small!
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The Fabulous Nano
4 minutes read The comparison of the enormity of an object is done concerning the size of a normal human being. On this basis, we have scaled the different dimensions, that go up towards the macro and down towards the subatomic particles and quarks, through the so-called “nano” dimension. The nanosize range lies between 1nm and 100nm, where one can find viruses, antibodies, glucose molecules, etc. The word nano, introduced in the 1980s found its way to a flashing field of research now known as Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The intuitive idea, to think and study about the small scales, was given by the famous theoretical physicist Richard Feynman. His remarkable quote that “ there is plenty of room at the bottom ”exceptionally forced the experimentalists to go ahead with the idea and to develop new technology to understand the matter at the atomic or the molecular level[1]. The properties of materials may get reversed when they are nano, compared to their bulk matter.
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Thinking you have ‘free will’ is the best way to think you don’t have one
4 minutes read |Difficulty level: Medium| One essential way of questioning free will is to think we don’t have one. There are quite
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The question of Existence in Science and Reality
5 minutes read Science has achieved immediate attention to some fundamental questions asked for centuries. One among them is the sentinel existence of an objective world to keep a reality of what everyone shares in common. Some general attributes about things, emptiness and fields are considered to be fundamental in applying natural laws. This article checks on these matters from a physical and philosophical perspective where general concerns are shared.
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Quantum Computers – A Promise for future?
4 minutes read |Difficulty level: Easy| “If nature is giving us that computational lemon, well, why not make it into a lemonade.” -Richard
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