Scattered Light: From Rayleigh to Raman
Vishrut Kinikar It is well-known among students of science that the blue color of the sky exists as a result of blue wavelength being scattered disproportionately more than other wavelengths. Although this oversimplified explanation may suffice, further analysis reveals a more intricate story. It is this further analysis which led British physicist John William Strutt,…
Singularity Theorems of Penrose and Hawking – Revolutions in General Relativity
Vishrut Kinikar General relativity, since its advent in 1915, has predicted a wide range of phenomena, from a geometrical interpretation of space-time to mass-energy equivalence. Its insights on gravitational lensing and singularities serve as the bedrock for British physicist Roger Penrose’s revolutionary singularity theorem. However, a major development that perhaps contributed to Penrose’s discovery came…
Hinduism and Buddhism: Revisiting Claims of Persecution
Vishrut Kinikar The alleged persecution of Buddhists and destruction of stupas by Hindu rulers, termed “Brahmanical” by some academics, remains a contentious topic that has sparked endless debate. This allegation is often brought up in discussions regarding the reclamation of Hindu temples demolished under Islamic rule, and it is this article which attempts to uncover…
Quantum Mechanics – The Universe’s Game of Dice
Written by Vishrut Kinikar “God does not play dice with the universe” remarked Albert Einstein when quantum mechanics ushered a probabilistic view of the cosmos into the world of physics. However, through repeated experimentation, the validity of quantum mechanics has been upheld for surprisingly longer than most people expected. Since antiquity, the world has been…
Ancient Indian Sciences and Technology Part 2
Vishrut Kinikar In the previous article I had covered some eye-opening scientific discoveries made by our ancient Indian scientists. This is a Part 2 of that article which sheds light on a few other scientific geniuses of ancient India. Rishi Agatsya We have all heard of Rishi Agastya but we have only thought of him…
Graham’s Number
Vishrut Kinikar Are dimensions a mere product of the mind? This question has been been endlessly debated in various philosophical traditions and has entered the domain of science in the past few centuries. This mere question, and other questions regarding the existence of dimensions, have been the driving force behind a plethora of philosophical traditions…
Numbers Larger Than Infinity!
Written By: Vishrut Kinikar Infinity, in the minds of the common man, has been thought of as the “final number” in a seemingly unending set of whole numbers. The common-sense notion of the everyday man also, without any logical or mathematical premise, assumes the integers and the fractions between them have a fixed value and…
Ancient Indian Sciences and Technology
Vishrut Kinikar In this article, I would like to cover the achievements of great scientists of our ancient culture, whose contributions not only helped shape a significant foundation of all areas of science, but had also enabled Bharat to become a top exporter of knowledge and culture. To digress a little, it is unfortunate and…
Unimaginably Huge Numbers
Hello everyone! Today, in this article, we will be talking about some unimaginably huge numbers, some of which can only be expressed in exponent form. On the other hand, I would like to apologize for not writing or posting anything since the beginning of January, as I had taken some time off. We all know…
History of India-Europe Cultural Connections – An Introduction
Humans are proven to have originated in Africa, and although Africa is the original homeland of the hominid species, India also has an equally important story to tell regarding the history of homo sapiens. Studies have shown that approximately 90 percent of non-African males have a patrilineal haplogroup gene flow coming from the Indian subcontinent…
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