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,Continue reading “Scattered Light: From Rayleigh to Raman”
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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 cameContinue reading “Singularity Theorems of Penrose and Hawking – Revolutions in General Relativity”
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