Particle is not a "wave", particle is a "knight". In chess knight moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically. Average behaviour for 1000 knights looks like normal distribution. In physics such behaviour is

Happy 137th Birthday to Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematical genius. He discovered nearly 4,000 theorems and equations, unique and groundbreaking. Some of his results were so advanced that they were not proven until decades after his death. Today, India

Happy 382nd Birthday to Sir Isaac Newton. He was born #OTD (as per Julian calendar) in 1642. An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author whose mind unlocked the laws of motion and universal gravitation, and is recognised as one of the most

A brilliant Cambridge and Oxford educated economist, who became a statesman and soft spoken leader—former prime minister of India—RIP Dr. Manmohan Singh: Man who liberated India's dreams timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/manmohan…

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon talk about Ramanujan, in Good Will Hunting (1997) ✍️ Ramanujan lived in a tiny hut in India. No formal education, no access to other works. But he came across an old math book and from this basic text he was able to extrapolate theories that had

The Rice community mourns the loss of former President Jimmy Carter and forever will remain inspired by his extraordinary legacy of leadership and service to our country and the world. Carter implored our graduates as Rice’s 1993 commencement speaker to consider that “Excellence

Charles Duncan, who served as Pres. Carter's Sec'y of Energy, went to ask him to be the 1993 Rice commencement speaker. Carter said he didn't like giving commencement speeches, & besides he had enough honorary degrees. Charles informed him that Rice didn't give honorary degrees.

That, according to the story, piqued Pres. Carter's interest & turned conversation around. "You don't give honorary degrees?" he reportedly asked. He was so taken w/ idea that Rice didn't give degrees to anyone who didn't earn them that he changed his mind and agreed to speak.

When the last time you heard about someone who agreed to give a commencement speech at a university BECAUSE it wouldn't award him an honorary degree? (This was related directly by Charles Duncan.) An example of humility, decency, compassion and contribution.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck near a holy city in China’s Tibet region, killing at least 95 people and injuring more than 100 wsj.com/world/asia/ear… via The Wall Street Journal

Wave-Particle Duality: In quantum mechanics, particles like electrons and photons can behave both as particles and as waves. This duality means their position and state are not fixed but exist in a superposition, spread across multiple possibilities. The wave function is a

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3000 BCE iron smelting and production in South India ! Centuries earlier to Turkey’s dated to 13th century BCE. bbc.com/news/articles/…

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Satish Nagarajaiah, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, on receiving ASCE's George W. Housner Structural Control & Monitoring Medal. Join us in celebrating this well-deserved honor! asce.org/career-growth/…

“A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water. To test this

This came as a total surprise this morning. Very humbled… 🙏 AI is built by generations of technologists, starting with the daring question of “can machines think?” by Alan Turing. It will be further developed, used and governed by many and all of us! Let’s keep our AI mission