The Ogler’s Guide to Shibuya, Tokyo
Since I was brought up in a city and have travelled to about two dozen of them, I can attest to at least one universal fact about them: cities have rhythms . They might...
Notes, essays, thoughts and the like.
A collection of old blog posts archived from my previous website. New content coming soon.
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Blog reelBen Feringa’s missing Nobel prize
Ben Feringa is the sort of person you’d call 'smart’. Despite being relatively famous in his field, you probably haven’t heard of him. I certainly hadn’t up until recently. One indication of Feringa’s intellectual...
The Particles behind the Pyramid
Last week, a team of physicists and engineers announced they had discovered a large ‘void’ in the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World: The Great Pyramid of Giza. Published in an article...
A Story of ‘Nothing’ Part II: DUNE
This article can be read on its own, but you may want to read Part I for a bit more context. A few weeks back, I sat in on an academic group meeting, where...
A Story of ‘Nothing’ Part I : Neutrinos
In September of this year, the UK Government announced a partnership with the US to invest £65 (88$) million into the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Currently under construction in South Dakota, DUNE aims...
Particles over Politics: The More the Merrier
This article was originally posted on QuantumDiaries.org August 1st, 2016.Earlier last month, Romania became the 22nd Member State of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN, home to the world’s most powerful atom...
The Four-Leafed Clovers of Subatomic Particles: Tetraquarks
This article was originally posted on QuantumDiaries.org February 29th, 2016.Hadrons, the particles made of quarks, are almost unanimously produced in the two or three quark varieties in particle colliders. However, in the last decade...
Spun out of proportion: The Proton Spin Crisis
This article was originally posted on QuantumDiaries.org February 1st, 2016. Spun out of proportion: The Proton Spin Crisis In the late 1980s, as particle colliders probed deeper into the building blocks of nature, there...
Dark Matter: A New Hope
This article was originally posted on QuantumDiaries.org December 7th, 2015. To call the direct detection of dark matter “difficult” is a monumental understatement. To date, we have had no definite, direct detection on Earth...