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Mr. Einstein in Cuttack, The Final Chapter
July 1944, Cuttack, British India: Stewart Science College was established near Buxi Bazar, Cuttack with only seven staff; six teachers and a watchman. The principal cut the ribbon and inaugurated the college. As the inauguration was occurring, the watchman heard some hush-hush noise just around the bushes, which were really big near the washroom. He…
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Mr. Einstein in Cuttack, Ep III
Mr. Einstein In Cuttack, Episode III: September 26, 1905, Germany: Phillip Lenard publishes Special Theory of Relativity and Photoelectric Effect at once. These two papers send a wave of wonder and astonishment among his peers as they had never imagined that Lenard was capable of such discovery and imagination. Soon his contemporary physicists like Niels…
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The Storm Within My Abstract Mind
Stacey Kent’s “In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning” playing in the background, I find myself in the midst of a darkish red room surrounded by big heads of brown deers hanging on the walls, staring right at me with their dead eerie eyes. Stacey Kent’s elegant jazz along with the reddish nature of…
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Mr. Einstein In Cuttack, Episode II
September 25, 1905, Germany: Philip Lenard wakes up early to start his long yet dangerous mission that he has been planning for all these years. After having a sandwich and coffee for breakfast, Phillip goes into his study and brings out a pen and paper to write something down. He then starts writing a letter…
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Mr. Einstein In Cuttack
(Dedicated To My Beloved Friends From Stewart Science College, Cuttack) September 25, 1905, Germany: A guy named Albert Einstein working as a clerk in a post office somewhere in Germany had been working on some scientific research paper. However, he had finally decided that he was going to publish it the next day; on September…
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The Long Winter Night’s Dream
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.” Albert Camus. That night, I went to bed at around 1 am after finishing my quantum mechanics homework. Sometimes I think how absurd quantum mechanics can be! How did they come up with that idea of a particle being in two different forms at the same…
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THE INFINITE HORIZONS AND THE BOUNDLESS OCEAN:
Agatha struggles with insomnia which deprives her of having dreams in the night which worked as a portal for her for something beyond her imagination.
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My New Podcast
Please check out my new podcast on Spotify. It’s called Late Night Cine Chat. It’s about movies, TV shows and Books. Let me know your feedback.
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SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT: AN ABSURD THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
Schrödinger’s cat is a famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics that feels quite absurd in a real-life scenario. Austrian-Irish physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposed this thought experiment after observing the problem of Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics. What Does Schrödinger’s Cat Experiment State? Schrödinger’s cat experiment (thought experiment) assumes a hypothetical cat present inside a sealed…
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WAS RAVANA THE FIRST EVER AVIATOR OF PUSHPAKA VIMANA?
Ravana, one of the key characters in the Hindu epic, Ramayana, is considered as the antagonist of the epic. But there are certain qualities of this marvellous character that seek the attention of readers, historians and scientists alike. His life creates an intrigue among scientists of the modern days as he is thought to have…