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Govind Swarup – A Tribute
Kshitij Bane An internationally renowned astronomer, a pioneer of radio Astronomy research and torch-bearer for building and nurturing scientific capacity in post-independent India, an innovator responsible for creating unique and world-class scientific facilities, a mentor, and an inspiration for generations of young astronomers – Professor Govind Swarup, who passed away on 7th September 2020 in…
“Mary’s room and the outside world”
Abstract Art by Maya Prabhakar The knowledge argument (also known as Mary’s room or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article “Epiphenomenal Qualia” (1982) and extended in “What MaryDidn’t Know” (1986). The experiment is intended to argue against physicalism—the view that the universe, including all that is…
First Light with UVIT Payload on ASTROSAT
Amit Kumar I would like to share the heart holding experience of my first Space Project, UVIT on ASTROSAT. It was 30th November 2015. We had finished all the major checks on UVIT payload when its doors were closed. Just to remind the readers, ASTROSAT was launched on 29th September 2015 from ISRO space centre…
“Errors are beautiful and Gaussian”-Really?
Soumya Sengupta Gaussian or Normal Distribution is the most common of all the probability distributions in the sense that the heights of the boys in a classroom, the errors in any experiments, or the probability of acceptance of your proposal (in your company or in love affairs) all follow the Gaussian distribution. De Moivre first reported…
How To Know If You Are Stuck In The “miRЯor universe”? PART 2
Priya Goyal In the previous article, we figured out a way to know if we are in the real universe or stuck in the mirror universe. Wu’s experiment, which involved radioactive decay of Cobalt atoms (cooled) placed in a magnetic field, came to our rescue. This discovery of weak forces violating parity symmetry was shocking…
