The Mobile Phone Invention credited to Martin Cooper of Motorola. He made the first-ever handheld mobile phone in 1973 called the Motorola DynaTac which weighed at 2 kgs. In an interview in 2015, Cooper mentioned that the inspiration for this creation to the Dic Tracy comics in which a character used a device called theContinue reading “Fiction turned Reality?”
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The Essence Of The Universe- The Standard Model
“Truth is found in simplicity, not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” -Issac Newton “Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.” -Einstein Since Aristotle took the first step towards understanding the complexities and mechanics of this world, various scholars have engaged in understanding, truly, what the universe carries in itsContinue reading “The Essence Of The Universe- The Standard Model”
frolicking with the universe
Nature is a poetChaos its museThey dance in abrupt harmonySpilling afar, across and throughPainting pastels of realityAlong with specks of neon too…A gasp of lightBubbling through a dark oceanDots and dots Brought by hundreds of motionsSpeckles sparkleGrappled by forceWeighing on the mattressMaking a universal Rose
Moon OR Muon?
Recently, I was reading about a particle called the Higgs Boson , it revolutionised quantum science. While doing so I came across a word which I kept reading as the moon for almost 3/4th of the article and then realised the word was muon. A moon is a macroscopic object — a satellite, a celestialContinue reading “Moon OR Muon?”
The woman who caught stars on paper
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a women’s nature. Annie Jump Cannon ANNIE JUMP CANNON Astronomer She was the first to attempt cataloguing, organizing stars on the bases of their temperatures and spectral types. Edward Pickering believed that Annie was the only person in theContinue reading “The woman who caught stars on paper”