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Illusion of Sunlight
Read this Post in Kannada – ಈ ಲೇಖನವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ What comes to our mind when we think about the first rays of sunlight at dawn? If you thought of the word “Sunrise”, then yes! Sunrise, it is. And when the last directly hitting rays of sunlight disappear, it is “Sunset”. At some point in... Continue Reading
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Stellar Evolution: What does the Life of a star look like?
Like in 'Seven Ages of Man' by William Shakespeare, where he ponders about the roles played by person with the passage of time, Stars too go through various stages in their lifetime over a period of millions or billions of years.... Continue Reading
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Albert Einstein : The Man who shaped Cosmology
Einstein was told two things when he mentioned wanting to solve the problem of gravity: one was that it simply couldn’t be done, the other was that no one would believe him even if he did. In response he created his greatest achievement, the theory of general relativity. General relativity did for gravity what even... Continue Reading
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Why is speed of light is the speed of light
Physicists define time as the progression of events from the past to the present into the future. Basically, if a system is unchanging, it is timeless. Time can be considered to be the fourth dimension of reality, used to describe events in three-dimensional space. It is not something we can see, touch, or taste, but... Continue Reading