There are four types of forces or interactions in our universe. The first is the gravitational...
Author - Vinod Wadhawan
Understanding Natural Phenomena 11: Einstein’s General...
Einstein’s special theory of relativity (cf. Part 10) was followed by his general theory of...
Understanding Natural Phenomena 10: Relativity Matters
Mu mesons (or muons) are unstable particles, produced when protons from the Sun are absorbed in the...
Understanding Natural Phenomena 9: Symmetry is Supreme
The edifice of modern physics would have been unthinkable without the help and insights the...
Understanding Natural Phenomena 8: The Ultimate Causes of Cosmic...
What emerged at the Big Bang as a quantum fluctuation was an energy field, with no structure. But...
Understanding Natural Phenomena 7: Of Bosons and Fermions
The Higgs boson is in the news these days, but what exactly is a boson?
Understanding Natural Phenomena 6: How can Order Emerge out of...
As explained in Part 5, the second law of thermodynamics says that, for an isolated system, the...
Understanding Natural Phenomena 5: Can You Unscramble an Egg?
Can you scramble an egg? Yes. Can you unscramble a scrambled egg? No way. The physics behind this...
Understanding Natural Phenomena 4: Summing over Multiple...
In this series of posts I am trying to take science to more people by explaining some key ideas in...
Understanding Natural Phenomena 3: Quantum Mechanics
The birth of our universe, namely the Big Bang, is described by scientists as a 'quantum event'...