Feast your eyes on this Cat’s Eye: Look at the clarity of the image.
Images from ground-based telescopes are generally blurred. There are techniques to reduce the blur (adaptive optics is one of them); now add another smart processing to the list.
The technique works by recording partially corrected adaptive optics images at high speed (20 […]
The National Science Foundation, Public Library of Science and the San Diego Supercomputing Center have partnered to set up what can best be described as a “YouTube for scientists”; its called SciVee.
Scientists can upload their research papers, accompanied by a video where they describe the work in the form of a short lecture, accompanied by […]
I love first light celebrations; especially when the first light really means being able to see the results of the observations - not that the telescope has started to take data.
I am not suggesting that when the instrument starts taking the data and if it takes six months to analyze it, then the “First […]
Are we going to find blackholes at LHC? Really? is it really likely? nope; Is it even possible? umm, very remotely!
Starting LHC is like “going west” a couple of centuries ago, or going on a sea voyage four or five centuries ago. One never knows what will one find!
In certain situations, if all the […]
VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is a new ground-based gamma-ray observatory with an array of four 12m optical reflectors for gamma-ray astronomy in the GeV - TeV energy range . It consists of an array of imaging telescopes deployed such that they permit the maximum versatility and give the highest sensitivity […]
The 62M Yr bio-diversity cycle has been talked about for several years now. Using an exhaustive database of fossils created by Sepkoski, Muller and Rohde analyzed the fossil records and noticed the rise and fall in bio diversity every 62M yrs. This is what the graph looks like:
There is a claim that […]
The MiniBooNE results are out (sort of). MiniBooNE is designed to probe the Neutrino oscillations. MiniBioonE is a short for Booster Neutrino Experiment; “Booster” refers to a Fermilab booster ring that accelerates protons, and “mini” because a second, larger stage is planned.
It is a fascinating experiment. It attempts to count the number […]
Because of the its uniqueness and the ability to accommodate highly symmetric structure, E8 has been a favorite among physicist as a candidate for grand - super - unification! I think I wrote a couple of papers about E8 too!
The gargentuan E8 can now be visualized a little better. Below is the picture of the […]
In the honor of the Pi day (3/14), I suggest that all Roman numerals on the speed limit signs should be replaced with their equivalent number written as power or multiplier of Pi. It will help improve the math appreciation of the whole population!
It is the most interesting and mysterious and beautiful natural number […]
I knew string theory will pay off some time!
For many people, the cost of real estate is so high it might as well be in another dimension. But Oscar Villalon and Mary Ladd just found a place they can afford. They’re part of a great speculative land grab going on in San Francisco. Properties are […]
Gorgeous picture of Jupitor’s moon Io. Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in this color composite image from the robotic Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.
At the image top, over Io’s limb, a bluish plume rises about 140 kilometers above the surface of a volcanic caldera known as […]
I saw this a few months ago and was intrigued by it. Its just a proof of concept but an interesting one. The idea is to look at the cosmic microwave background in detail and see if one can make any educated guesses about the compact dimensions from there.
The WMAP has measured the anisotropy of […]
I should rejoice that my book is being sold at AntiQBook. I guess it is better than being sold in the clearance section.
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 […]
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 […]
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