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We present a broad overview of the emerging field of gravitational-wave astronomy. Although gravitational waves have not been directly detected yet, the worldwide scientific community is engaged in an exciting search for these elusive waves. Once detected, they will open up a new observational window to the Universe.
Virendra Singh is a renowned theoretical physicist of the country whose research interests include S-matrix theory, unitary symmetry, foundations of Quantum Mechanics and History and Philosophy of Science. A PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, Prof. Singh joined TIFR in 1957 and was its Director from 1987 to 1997. After retirement he continued as INSA-C V Raman Research Professor till...
The entire discussion below, except the first few paragraphs, takes place on the interval (0, 1], so you can relax. In this two-part article, we show that decimal digits of numbers obey several patterns.
The above lines from Hilaire Belloc’s poem ‘The Microbe’ were quoted by the author of a paper in the Proceedings of the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium of 1953. The author is none other than William Hayes who stands out as an example of scientists who have published very few papers in their career but whose works have revolutionised the prevailing notions and concepts and laid the foundations for monumental...
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Dr. Robert Edwards for “the development of in vitro fertilization”. The Nobel Assembly stated that the vision Edwards had of discovering a treatment for infertility is now “a reality and brings joy to infertile people all over the world”. Indeed, looking back over my own familiarity with Edwards and with the treatment of infertility by...
In this article it is pointed out how the different layers of substructure of matter were revealed to us by experiments which were essentially very similar to the famous α-particle scattering experiment performed by Rutherford. This experiment, which revealed the nuclear structure of an atom, paved the way towards our current understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter and shaped the course...
In this two-part article, we are trying to discover patterns in the decimal digits of numbers between zero and one. In Part I we started showing that each digit occurs with frequency 1/10. We reduced the problem with the help of Borel-Cantelli Lemma and Markov inequality to show certain sums of integrals are finite. In this concluding part we bring in an essentially new ingredient and conclude the...
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