One time a referee made me add a reference to a paper (their own, I believe) which came out month after my paper and which added literally one(1) step to the computation in my paper (the one under review).

HISTORY OF PHYSICS

(input by Nirmalya Kajuri 😄)

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hyperborean maude flanders Martin Bauer Bezos said in an interview (probably this one) that in physics, those outside the top 50 do not make a significant contribution.

I think his main motivation was to make a significant contribution in his chosen field, rather than just being into physics. He was mature enough to

Every few days I get a call from ‘telecom department ’ with an automated voice telling me that my number will be disabled in 2 days.

This is a scam

My article in ThePrint on glimpsing primordial black hole #darkmatter with parallax microlensing.

Based on the fantastic

arxiv.org/abs/2308.01775

by Priyanka Gawade, Surhud More, Varun Bhalerao.

George Green of Green's function fame was completely self-taught

In his last paper, Stephen Hawking and his collaborators proposed a novel solution to the black hole information loss paradox.

Black holes, they claimed, can have 'soft hair.'

Time disappears in Quantum Gravity?

A thread for everyone 1/n

We are very happy to announce an online school on quantum field theory in Bangladesh, going all the way from basics to topics of current research! Registration opens on June 1st:

indico.ictp.it/event/10720/

Co-organized w/ Ahmed Rakin Kamal, w/ generous support from ICTP PWF.

Coming soon to arXiv. First paper by Arundhati, my first PhD student.

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