Posts Tagged ‘Physics’

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Quantum Yang-Mills Theory

  [Editor: This is next part in our series of articles on the Millennium Problems.] In classical physics, there were two kinds of entities, material particles governed by Newtonian mechanics and fields governed by appropriate field equations eg Maxwell’s equations for electromagnetic field. However just before and after the beginning of the twentieth century, experimental [...]

Published by on April 26th, 2012 at 03:04 pm
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Time Dilation and Relativity

  Of all that we have known in physics, the Galilean laws, the Newtonian laws, the discovery of the speed of light along with many others govern the mind. In the eyes of Physics, in the 20th century physics the very concept of Relativity was a Renaissance. Relativity can be said to be  the single [...]

Published by on January 19th, 2012 at 09:01 pm
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The Dark Fantasy

  There seems to be a HALO of mysterious invisible material engulfing galaxies, which is commonly referred to as Dark matter. Scientists infer the existence of dark (=invisible!!!) matter from the observation of its gravitational pull, which causes the stars in the outer regions of a galaxy to orbit faster than they would if there [...]

Published by on January 19th, 2012 at 09:01 pm
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Invisibility tends to reality

Can invisibility be reality? A query which has been in the back of curious minds of the scientific giants and even the common masses throughout many generations, has finally found a positive answer and the credit for it unquestionably goes to science and particularly to physics. For decades, science fiction writers have authored stories where [...]

Published by on December 18th, 2011 at 08:12 pm
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A Theoretical study on Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials (Review)

  We are pleased to share a presentation that our Consulting Editor, Madhurrya Prakash Talukdar gave at the Technical Session of the Assam Science Society in 2011 held at Dibrugarh University. His paper was titled "A Theoretical study on Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials (Review)" and will be published in a more coherent form in the [...]

Published by on December 17th, 2011 at 01:12 pm
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The Man Who Knew Everything (Almost)!

Tezpur University's Astronomy Club recently organized a public talk on Richard P. Feynman, which was delivered by Manjil P. Saikia. The transcript of the talk is available here for download.

Published by on September 1st, 2011 at 08:09 pm
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Bhabha: The Man and the Physicist

Knowledge once given cannot be taken back- Bhabha   When speaking of the modern scientific and technological scenario of India, the name of Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha needs special mention.  Born on 30th October 1909 in Mumbai of Jehangir Hormnusji Bhabha and Meherbai , Dr. Bhabha, apart from being a brilliant physicist himself, had played [...]

Published by on July 12th, 2011 at 04:07 pm