My book is already antique
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
I should rejoice that my book is being sold at AntiQBook. I guess it is better than being sold in the clearance section.
Archive for January, 2007
Please say its not true! Hubble’s main camera is not working.
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Just heard the news and I am so devastated! The ACS camera on the Hubble is not working; its the main camera and it does not seem likley that it will get fixed in 2008 mission either. Just when things were getting interesting! All the intersting pictures, like the deep field view, came from that […]
Aspiring Physics Students Beaten in Nepal Protest
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
This is surreal for sure! I don’t think I ever expected to hear a bunch of students to be chanting ‘We want physics, we want physics”. And then to hear the siren of the police cars and the students being beaten… This is too much to bear! It hurts.
The passion with which the student leader […]
Rumors of Higgs Boson!
Friday, January 26th, 2007
The rumors of Higgs boson have been rampant since last week, John’s bump hunting and Tommaso’s notes at 2.1 Sigma excess at 140 to 160 Gev.
I think I’ll wait for the LHC data.
Of course, I don’t particular want Higgs to show up! I think there will be more interesting physics if the standard […]
Best ever picture of coffee with a drop of milk!
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
One forgets the beauty of the fluids and the kinetic poetry they write.
Photo by Irene Muller in Germany. She also has awesome pictures of smoke and dancing drops, and ripples.
The pictures that I really like are the pictures where she shows things “happening” before they happen. Like ripples forming before the drop […]
Clumpy darkmatter in 3D - now there is something new!
Monday, January 15th, 2007
This hubble map of dark matter distribution taken in 3D is really interesting.
The part that is new and most exciting is that there are patches of dark matter where there is no visible baryonic matter, and there are other patches where there is baryonic matter but no dark matter.
The normal matter collect collects […]