The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." – Albert Einstein Eighty years have passed since the twin horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki scorched their way into the conscience of humankind.
It was the Black Hole tragedy that eventually led to Bengal's last Nawab, Siraj-ud-Daulah's execution on the midnight of 2 July 1757. Interestingly, after 201 years, it had lent scientist Albert Einstein's ageless theory a name, making Kolkata an inevitable part of the Theory of Relativity.
After some thought, I decided to base my list on the spiritual implications of the laws. Such associations suggest that these laws (applicable to inert objects in physics) are perhaps special cases of more far-reaching principles applicable to our entire existence.
Einstein wondered about the meaning of our existence and purpose of human life our ‘brief sojourn‘ on earth and was convinced that we exist not for ourselves but for others. He wrote: ‘But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-men in the first place for those on whose smiles and welfare all our happiness depends, and next for all those unknown to us personally with whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of sympathy‘
Emmy Noether faced sexism and Nazism — 100 years later her contributions to ring theory still influence modern mathematics
Do black holes become different when they grow larger?
I am referring to the time earlier when Darjeeling was in its pristine state. During the time when Darjeeling was described as a lovely, beautiful forested land, when she was worthy of being called the 'Queen of Hills' Darjeeling's corrugated hills were beautiful until they were touched by the corrupt minds of humans.
Science is not just a rational pursuit of the reality trying to unravel the mystery of nature around us, but at the core of it all, there lies great beauty and aesthetics. Thus, ‘one of the strongest motives leading to Arts and Science is a flight from everyday life with its painful coarseness and bleak tediousness‘, observed Albert Einstein.
Teachers are not always to blame for the sorry state of school education.
Physicists hope that a 'grand unified theory' will bring together strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions
