The Wandering Mind
Praveen P. A.
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Some random thoughts on science, technology, photography, Indian history, Tamil culture and politics, and books (a lot of books!)
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SEP 1, 2020
Kadavulathal: Netril Irunthu Nalai Varai - Episode 05
Kadavulathal is a podcast aimed to summarize the key findings and important contributions in physics over several hundred years. In this episode, a brief discussion of life and death of a star along with the legacy of Stephen Hawking and his contributions to black holes research is discussed. Finally, with anthropic principle, an inquiry about the possibility of existence of god is also discussed.
10 MIN
SEP 1, 2020
Kadavulathal: Netril Irunthu Nalai Varai - Episode 04
Kadavulathal is a podcast aimed to summarize the key findings and important contributions in physics over several hundred years. In this episode, how quantum mechanics turned around the deterministic principle and how it unifies the three major forces of our universe were discussed.
7 MIN
SEP 1, 2020
Kadavulathal: Netril Irunthu Nalai Varai - Episode 03
Kadavulathal is a podcast aimed to summarize the key findings and important contributions in physics over several hundred years. In this episode, key findings of general relativity and its importance on describing the evolution of our universe is discussed.
13 MIN
AUG 28, 2020
Kadavulathal: Netril Irunthu Nalai Varai - Episode 02
Kadavulathal is a podcast aimed to summarize the key findings and important contributions in physics over several hundred years. In this episode, the legacy of Sir Issac Newton and the three discoveries that turned around Newtonian laws were discussed. The episode ends with an introduction to general relativity.
10 MIN
AUG 21, 2020
Kadavulathal: Netril Irunthu Nalai Varai - Episode 01
Kadavulathal is a podcast aimed to summarize the key findings and important contributions in physics over several hundred years. In this episode, contributions in terms of early idea of universe from ancient philosophers to renaissance period scientists were discussed.
12 MIN
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