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Parsing Ajay Sharma v. E = mc2
An Indian scientist’s disputes with Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence betray a misreading of how one of history’s most famous equations came to be.
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Note
This blog turns five today. It's nice to think I've a habit when few others have survived. Thank you for reading my writing. :)
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Ways of seeing
A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving.
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Colliders of the future: LHeC and FCC-he
Because powerful accelerators take at least a decade to realise, physicists have started work on two machines to aid physics research of the future.
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Some thoughts on the nature of cyber-weapons
The agents of cyber-warfare are trapped as much as liberated by the ambiguities surrounding what the nature of a cyber-weapon is at all, with what intent and for what purpose it was crafted, allowing its repercussions to seem anywhere from rapid to evanescent.
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Hopes for a new particle at the LHC offset by call for more data
The data pointing at signs of a new particle isn't good enough to use yet.
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Physicists could have to wait 66,000 yottayears to see an electron decay
An electron's lifetime is predicted by prevalent theory that physicists would like to see disproved
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New LHC data has more of the same but could something be in the offing?
Run 2 results from the LHC show that QCD is scale-invariant – in keeping with the Standard Model prediction.
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Calling 2015
Overall, 2015 was a great year – breaking away from 2014 and nicely setting up 2016.
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Tracing the origins of Pu-244
Plutonium-244 could've come from neutron-star mergers, so knowing its abundance could reveal the rate at which such mergers happen.
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The downward/laterward style in science writing
As a science writer, I don't like the inverted pyramid but prefer the pyramid: starting with a slowly building trickle of information at the top with the best stuff coming at the bottom.
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#ChennaiRains – let's not forget
It's very important to glorify the people who've stood up to adversity but when the adversity was brought on by the government, it's equally – if not more – important to call it out as well.