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Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by kgoan: No. I have a copy of Bose's original paper (in one of those "classics of physics compendium"), and the corrections made by Einstein to it. Einstein deserved to have his name on it. what were the corrections? significant or not? here are the references to the or...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Ashok Kumar: 2. S. N. Bose was the one who worked out the statistics of bosons and fermions. As was the custom of his days, he had sent his paper to Einstein to review. Einstein forwarded only the boson statistics part of his paper for publication. From where it got its name Bo...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Joishy: Hey wait a minute... here is a short bio on S.N. Bose ... http://www.vigyanprasar.com/scientists/snbose/bose.htm He and C.V. Raman were the luminaries in the earlier half of the last century ... Raman was honored with the Nobel ... Bose also should have been. they didn'...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Ashutosh: There seems to be some confusion here atleast in my mind: there are four Bose that are quite famous.. They are: 1) Jagdish Chandra Bose - Botanist. 2) Amar Bose - electronics guy; "Bose" speakers 3) Satyendra Nath Bose - theoretical physics; Bose-Einstein co...

Alok Niranjan

The name Bose will be forever engraved in Physics via the so-called Bosons ... particles that obey Bose-Einstein statistics and are characterized by having an integral value of intrinsic spin ... All the efforts toward formulating a unified theory of physics are centered on identifying the critical ...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Neshant Sajen:

BOSE INVENTED MARCONI’S WIRELESS

Just in case it is not clear, the two Boses are not the same ...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Sohum Desai: I didn't know Desis came to America that long ago. you gotta be kidding ... Sardarji's from India came to California a 100 years ago ... they settled in Yuba City and ended up owning serious amounts of agricultural land ... anither matter that these same dudes fund...

Alok Niranjan

aah ... a new thread ... a place for me to post about a great Indian ... Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar NASA's premier X-ray observatory was named the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Indian-American Nobel laureate, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (pronounced: su/bra/mon'/yon chandra/say/kar). ...

Alok Niranjan

Manu said>> But being a sub-genius member of BR I leave it to the <u> real geniuses </u> to explain how the Pakis and more importantly, Dr. Khan won this game of Texas Hold'Em. And win it he has. no genius here, but I do know my hold'em ... so here is my take. Before the flop, India supposedly check...

Alok Niranjan

I finally got to see the video. The concerns about the flattish trajectory are not that serious. The missile, if it did indeed travel for 2,000 km, had a half-base of 1,000 km in its trajectory. It could reach a height of 150 km (and thus far outside the atmosphere) with a 15% grade (in the absence ...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by jarugn: A stick of cobalt, an inch thick and a foot long, is taken from among hundreds of such sticks at a food irradiation plant. It is blown up with just 10 pounds of explosives in a "dirty bomb" at the lower tip of Manhattan, with a one-mile-per-hour breeze blowing...

Alok Niranjan

lookie here ... my buddy hoodie has a chela in silicon valley ... what's the relationship between the hoodies?

Hoodbaby is Clean

Alok Niranjan

what is it that they say about a horse and the barn door? enjoy ... Pakis rushing to close the barn door Rule change bans N-material export By Our Reporter ISLAMABAD, March 8: The commerce ministry has introduced amendments in the Export Policy and Procedures Order 2000 to restrict the export of cer...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by shiv: I personally think a dirty bomb is a bad idea and that you are wrong in dismissing its effects as being of little consequence. But it is your prerogative to maintain your viewpoint. not "little" ... I asserted that it was of limited consequence ... not the "...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by shiv: The problem lies in YOUR personal intelligence and analytical ability. You are comfortably able to dive into issues like levels of radioactivity, rate of decay per second, radius of damage, possible concentration of radioactive material etc. All this is very very impressi...

Alok Niranjan

someone quite important on this forum said that enough had been said on the subject and it was time to move on ... however, other important folks have not moved on, so it seems to be fair game ... regarding a JDAM(P) on the Mall in DC: unless someone can show calculations that point otherwise, it se...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by sunil s: I think the cleanup will involve dumping tons of radioactive waste, plus working in a dispersed possibly airborne contaimination area is a major pain. High levels of exposure will impose a very high cost on the health system and there will be the cost due to panic in t...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by muddur:
US gave weapons-grade uranium to Pakistan

The news item does not say how much Uranium was given to each country ... if the mass was sub-critical, its no biggie [unless they all collaborate to put it together into one big JDAM

]

Alok Niranjan

From that Hindu editorial: For years, Washington has been building up visions of a "dirty nuclear bomb" falling into the hands of terrorists. Leading lights of the Bush administration such as the Deputy Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, have spoken of the dangers of proliferation from non...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by shiv: With the prospect of a real JDAM going off being so serious, I just wonder if everything is being done to make sure that these people's wishes (if indeed that is their wish) do not come true. unless there is some super secret strategy underfoot, it is quite clear that oil...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Sunder: US has no good reason to display dubious standards and YET profess it's in control of the war on terror. It's perhaps time for the US to pick a stance.. Dubious, or Just. I see every reason for the US to employ dubious standards, especially when dealing with dubious all...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by TSJones: If everybody is on the train when it leaves the station to point A, and all the genius test takers are just getting to the train station from point B, who got left behind? too many unknowns ... is the goal to reach point A, point B, or the train station? Confucious say...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by acharya: The thought process in the outside world ( BRF ) is being monitored to figure out what is the final perception of this fallout. who is monitoring BRF? I hear simultaneous strains of self-doubt (as in "we are mushrooms, why bother?") and self-importance (as in...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by sunil s: You can do an MS on a gaseous sample, I am not sure if NAA is possible on a gaseous sample. I was always under the impression that NAA was used on metals but please correct me if I am wrong. If NAA is referring to neutron activation, yes it is done on gases all the tim...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by narayanan: Also, refining to 98% or 99% as needed for a weapon, I presume, takes a LOT more spinning than refining to 95% as for reactor fuel. Its like GRE scores, 95th percentile vs. 99th percentile, hey? you presume "erroneously". In reality, anything above 90% is a...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Amber G.: In Dec 1982 when I was returning from a visiting professorship from Islamabad, I stopped in Saclay just curious ... from one physicist to another ... why waste a hard-earned sabbatical on Pakiland? I know of some Bangladeshis who consider it a privilege, but why you?

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by narayanan: And "anal-log capture" without use of digit-ization is just also way above my head - Analog capture, for example, is the use of a magnetic stylus driven on a rolling piece of paper -- a simple "chart recorder". The response of such devices is detr...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by narayanan: Squiggles will occur, whether *****al or ****og. Since this is Saturday morning, let me explain. That was not the point. You brought up Nyquist's theorem which only applies in the case of digitization, and not for analog capture. ( c.f. my post at 8:17 am) [ for comp...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by narayanan: The above is called "dispersion" of the various phrequenjiej, IIRC. not clear if you have something buried in your creative english that did not come through ... however, dispersion will simply slow down the rise-time of the original step function. It will ...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by narayanan: So if there were two explosions as some are suggesting it does not register even to the 1/100th of a second. So either the detonations were simultaneous as is rational or there was only one device which I am inclined to believe. Or, when they described an "event...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by vsunder: I say compressional because in a nuke test unlike an earthquake the compressional waves which travel faster than the transverse predominate unlike an earthquake where transverse waves predominate due to slippage of plates, so seismograms from earthquakes have at the be...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Johann: With such evidence how seriously you wish to take arguments about the age of the plutonium may depend on what you think about the accuracy and precision of the design information the analyst had regarding the bomb that produced the sample. Exactly. Since, I do not have ...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by ramana: Older Pu can be detected by the geiger counter count to determine the half life stuff. So they can tell if its NK circa or otherwise. Geiger counters measure the integrated inonizing particle flux. To differentiate between isotopes one has to do some sort of mass spectr...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Y I Patel: Since there is a constant decay of Pu into its daughter elements, the time elapsed since Pu got produced can be measured by using isotopic ratios, just like we would do in C14 dating. Specific isotopic ratios for nuclear weapons constitute a unique signature of the w...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by arun: Come on Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos et al. Having moved from a postion that the PU originated from a source outside the Pakistani nuclear test (inadvertent contamination of the PU sample in the US / PU vented by the earlier Indian test) do not wimp out by saying that i...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by Rajesh_G: Some bearded guy (kinda old) around 50:12 : I am saying one thing, Musharraf Saheb. In the past 4 years you have pulled the nation out of many a calamity and have taken us towards the road to progress and recently by promoting- jamhooriyat(dunno what this means) you h...

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by John Umrao:

How do these guys get such lucarative jobs in the administration?

precisely because they are agreeable to being stupid publicly. It is quite a talent ... most folks can't do it with a straight face

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by L Dev:
I have one question which puzzles me in all of this and it is," Why now"?

The naive answer is "due to developments in Libya/Iran/NK" ... IAEA is involved and USG could not brush that stuff under the carpet.

Alok Niranjan

Originally posted by narayanan:

This week, Pakistani opposition figures told rediff.com that Khan, who is compared by his well wishers to Albert Einstein

Alok Niranjan

Can't say whether this news item is a simple plant or whether there is any truth to it:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001845426_qaida28.html

but in my mind, this is the only reason that Mush is getting "unstinted support" from the US.

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