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Physics is a branch of Science that deals with the study of natural phenomena that are prevalent in the nature. So here we have to find out who is the Father of Physics. We might find this like just like we solve physical problems, by the Method of Deduction. We also know that this while studying the different fields of Physics itself, we make certain assumptions for better analysis of those fields. Here also we make certain assumptions for our deductions to work. Let us see what are those: We see you have asked for the ‘Father of Physics’. So we can assume that Physics is actually a child. We see, the word is Physcics. It ends with an ‘S’. So we can assume it to be plural. Consequently we may deduce that Physics is not a child but actually children. Now we try to find out how many children constitute this Physics. Wikipedia tells us these are the broadly classified topics of Physics. So we may assume these to be the number the children that actually constitute physics. These numbers a...

Physics is a branch of Science that deals with the study of natural phenomena that are prevalent in the nature. So here we have to find out who is the Father of Physics. We might find this like just like we solve physical problems, by the Method of Deduction. We also know that this while studying the different fields of Physics itself, we make certain assumptions for better analysis of those fields. Here also we make certain assumptions for our deductions to work. Let us see what are those: We see you have asked for the ‘Father of Physics’. So we can assume that Physics is actually a child. We see, the word is Physcics. It ends with an ‘S’. So we can assume it to be plural. Consequently we may deduce that Physics is not a child but actually children. Now we try to find out how many children constitute this Physics. Wikipedia tells us these are the broadly classified topics of Physics. So we may assume these to be the number the children that actually constitute phys...

The kinetic energy that water gains when it falls (and can therefore be converted into electricity by a hydroelectric plant) comes ultimately from sunlight and not from gravity. As a force, no energy can be extracted from gravity itself. Public Domain Image, source: Christopher S. Baird. No, gravity can not be used as an infinite energy source. In fact, strictly speaking, gravity itself can not be used as an energy source at all. You are confusing forces with energy, which are very different things.  Energy  is a property of objects, such as balls, atoms, light beams, or batteries. In contrast,  forces  describe the  interaction  between objects. Forces are the way that energy is transferred from one object to another when they interact, but forces are not the energy itself. Gravity is a force, so it just provides one way for objects to exchange and transform energy to different states. If I lift a bowling ball to the top of a hill and let it go, the ball f...

The kinetic energy that water gains when it falls (and can therefore be converted into electricity by a hydroelectric plant) comes ultimately from sunlight and not from gravity. As a force, no energy can be extracted from gravity itself. Public Domain Image, source: Christopher S. Baird. No, gravity can not be used as an infinite energy source. In fact, strictly speaking, gravity itself can not be used as an energy source at all. You are confusing forces with energy, which are very different things.  Energy  is a property of objects, such as balls, atoms, light beams, or batteries. In contrast,  forces  describe the  interaction  between objects. Forces are the way that energy is transferred from one object to another when they interact, but forces are not the energy itself. Gravity is a force, so it just provides one way for objects to exchange and transform energy to different states. If I lift a bowling ball to the top of a hill and let it go, ...

Walking on Caltech's campus, research engineer Chris Roh (MS '13, Ph.D. '17) happened to see a bee stuck in the water of Millikan Pond. Although it was a common-enough sight, it led Roh and his advisor, Mory Gharib (Ph.D. '83), to a discovery about the potentially unique way that bees navigate the interface between water and air. Roh spied the bee during California's years-long drought, when the pond's fountain was turned off and the  water  was still. The incident occurred around noon, so the overhead sun cast the shadows of the bee—and, more importantly, the waves churned by the flailing bee's efforts—directly onto the bottom of the pool. As the bee struggled to make its way to the edge of the pond, Roh noticed that the shadows on the pool's bottom showed the amplitude of the waves generated by the bee's wings, as well as the interference pattern created as the waves from each individual wing crashed into each other. "I was very excited to see...

Walking on Caltech's campus, research engineer Chris Roh (MS '13, Ph.D. '17) happened to see a bee stuck in the water of Millikan Pond. Although it was a common-enough sight, it led Roh and his advisor, Mory Gharib (Ph.D. '83), to a discovery about the potentially unique way that bees navigate the interface between water and air. Roh spied the bee during California's years-long drought, when the pond's fountain was turned off and the  water  was still. The incident occurred around noon, so the overhead sun cast the shadows of the bee—and, more importantly, the waves churned by the flailing bee's efforts—directly onto the bottom of the pool. As the bee struggled to make its way to the edge of the pond, Roh noticed that the shadows on the pool's bottom showed the amplitude of the waves generated by the bee's wings, as well as the interference pattern created as the waves from each individual wing crashed into each other. "I was very exc...

Atish Dabholkar to lead Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Atish Dabholkar, a theoretical physicist from India, has been appointed as the new director of Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. He is currently the head of ICTP’s high energy, cosmology and astroparticle physics section. He joined the centre in 2014 on secondment from Sorbonne Université and the National Center for Scientific Research, where he has been a research director since 2007. Mr. Dabholkar will take up his duties as ICTP director with the rank of Assistant Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He will succeed Fernando Quevedo, who has led the centre since 2009. “It’s an honour and a great responsibility to be chosen as ICTP’s next director. ICTP is a one-of-a-kind institution with a very high level of research and a unique global mission for international cooperation through science. It w...

Atish Dabholkar to lead Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Atish Dabholkar, a theoretical physicist from India, has been appointed as the new director of Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. He is currently the head of ICTP’s high energy, cosmology and astroparticle physics section. He joined the centre in 2014 on secondment from Sorbonne Université and the National Center for Scientific Research, where he has been a research director since 2007. Mr. Dabholkar will take up his duties as ICTP director with the rank of Assistant Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He will succeed Fernando Quevedo, who has led the centre since 2009. “It’s an honour and a great responsibility to be chosen as ICTP’s next director. ICTP is a one-of-a-kind institution with a very high level of research and a unique global mission for international cooperation t...

It has been written about before, over and over again, but cannot be emphasized enough. The world of quantum physics is an eerie one, one that sheds light on the truth about our world in ways that challenge the existing framework of accepted knowledge. What we perceive as our physical material world, is really not physical or material at all, in fact, it is far from it. This has been proven time and time again by multiple Nobel Prize (among many other scientists around the world) winning physicists, one of them being Niels Bohr, a Danish Physicist who made significant contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory. “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.  Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”  –  Niels Bohr  At the turn of the nineteenth century, physicists started to explore the relationship between energy and the structure of matter. In doing so, the belief th...