| V V: Destroyer of worlds | 19-SEP-09 |
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| Alongside Albert Einstein, it is J Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, who is best remembered by many of us as 20th century’s most famous physicist. Probably this is because he was also a Sanskrit scholar as when he saw the first mushroom cloud rise in its terrifying beauty above the test site in New Mexico, it was a line from the Bhagwad Gita that came into his head: “Now, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. |
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| Space and time | 29-JUN-09 |
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| If time and space are similar and space is fractalled then time fractals are not far away. |
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| V V: The Sweet Smell of Success | 03-JAN-09 |
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| “A (Success) = X(Work) + Y(Play) + Z(Keep Your Mouth Shut)”
- Albert Einstein
All things being equal, why do some people achieve much more than others? Is it because they have |
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| An Einstein fridge that can run without power? | 21-SEP-08 |
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| Scientists at Oxford University are working on a 1930 invention by Albert Einstein to develop an environmentally friendly refrigerator which they claim will run without electricity. |
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| V V: Einstein revisited | 24-JUN-06 |
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| Simplicity was the guiding principle of life for the physicist. And his quotes often revealed it.
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| V V: Hawking in brief | 15-OCT-05 |
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| A Briefer History of Time tells us something about the universe at which we can only stare in wonder
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| V V: S Chandrasekhar | 11-JUN-05 |
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| One of the seven lectures contained in his anthology, Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science, by the late Nobel Laureate, S Chandrasekhar, one was called Beauty and the Quest for |
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