I am sure you know in vacuum there is no weight, do you?!
The video takes Galileo’s famous experiment to a new level, where both heavy and light objects are dropped at the same time to see which will hit the ground faster. https://youtu.be/E43-CfukEgs Spoiler: the answer is that they will all fall at the exact same rate. Though some objects, like feathers, seem to fall slower because…
New Blog: romancesandnotes.wordpress.com
Dear friends, My WordPress free account (with 3GB space; with 734 published posts and 51 drafts) is now full and as I am not ready to pay to get additional space, I decided to create a new WordPress page (romancesandnotes.wordpress.com)! I’m excited to start sharing my experiences, thoughts, and nonsenses there…; Feel free to join…
The Quanta of Life are Enchanting and Entangled
Quantum theory works extremely well at the scale of photons, electrons, atoms, molecules, even macromolecules. But is it applicable to systems that are much, much larger than macromolecules? “We have not experimentally established the fact that quantum mechanics applies on larger scales, and larger means even something the size of a virus or a little cell,”…
This is what happens if you are a Data Scientist…
What Normal people see… What Data Scientist sees PS: After I posted, my friend Nalini sent me this…
Travels in the Mogul Empire (1656-1668)
The travelogue of Françoi Bernier, a French physician, continues to remain as important and as popular as it was in 1671, when its English edition was published. John Dryden, the famous poet and dramatist, drew his inspiration from his last and perfect tragedy Aurang-zebe from the same book. Bernier had an unlimited access in Mughal…
The Peacock Throne!
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668. Tavernier’s description of the Peacock Throne of the Great Mogul. It should be stated that the…
@ Sona Canteen
Time: 10:45Am Guru to canteen staff (who usually serves puffs): Akka, anju (5) puffs. Guru to friends: Dai, here are the puffs. Why are you standing there? Come, take it. How many of you want tea? After counting the number of puffs received, I turn around and I see my friends still have not decided…
Golden (Sona) days
To step into the grand arches of Sona,To a class of unreserved subjectsOf which one had not unexpected.We found the unoccupied spaces, Only to occupy, and speak to the near, “Hi” was the first word, then a smile.The name followed by “what is yours”;A moment of uncertainty all laspedWhen the lecturer entered the hallEqually nervous…
Fruits of Palmyrah…
A few days back, my son and I went to Kodumanal (in Erode District) to revisit the archaeological sites. On reaching we found the excavation sprint was done and the sites were covered. So, my son and I decided to walk around the sites in the hope to see some of the history discovered. As…
England’s Supremacy (1885)
James Stephen Jeans (1846-1913), Owner of Coal and Iron newspaper – (Iron and Coal Trades Review), authored this interesting book. The book provides detailed statistics of the Great Britain (GB)and her colonies… Also what is amazing is how England thought it is Totally okay to colonize other countries. Until 1700s India was one is the…
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