Neeti Sinha's Blog, page 2
June 8, 2016
Nonfiction Science
Pleased to see a sizable enthusiasm for the title Physical Laws of the Mathematical Universe: Who Are We? I had set a giveaway at the Goodreads, and was charmed to see so many avid readers of nonfiction science entered, while many tagged the title as to-be-read. I with fervor packaged individual copies, included short notes, and mailed them off. So yes the 10 winners should be receiving their copies shortly. It’s on the way. A short recap, the title discusses an overarching scheme of how the...
May 22, 2016
Mini Takes on Titles I Recently Read
The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality by Dave Goldberg
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Liked the mathematical connotation, and the broad overview, not so much of toning down to meet extensive readership, but understandable for a popular genre.
Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra by John Derbyshire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Methodically done. Crisply portrayed. Framed for general audience (must love mathematics though) yet doesn’t dampen down on...
April 16, 2016
The Inter-Connection
I am back. This time it was a longer intermission, after many weeks of steady continuity. That regularity mostly had to do with my being urged on by the efficient Jaymie Shook of the Bohlsen group to write more routinely than I have been. The main reason behind that is to spread the word around on what the subject of my recently released book is about, and I hope I have done a somewhat convincing job.
On my march to spread the word, I also dared to take up something I have managed to cower fr...
March 21, 2016
The Title and its Storyline
Continued from the preceding post…
Foremost, we can’t keep from commemorating the 2016 Abel prize awarded to Andrew Wiles of Oxford University, for proving that the Fermat’s Last Theorem is indeed true (in the year 1995). Congratulations to Andrew Wiles, and Pierre de Fermat! Fermat did claim (in the 17th century) to have surmounted proving his own elegant equation by noting “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.” The methodology Andrew...
March 14, 2016
Magnified Universe: Cosmic Landscape in Quantum Décor
The fabric of universe at a common level is conjectured as the structure that is directly perceived through the eye. But every scientist, and rational thinker, knows that there is more to it—more texture; more details; more interconnectivity, and thus better logical significance behind the palpable. (Just saw a philosophical take on that.) The universe we perceive as colossal and infinite might be just that—a perception.
In the boundaryless of q...
March 7, 2016
Magnified Universe: Cosmic Landscape in Quantum Décor
The theme accentuated: continued…
In discussing over the underlying gist of the blog Magnified Universe: Cosmic Landscape in Quantum Décor we skimmed through the overall idea of how the three components are indispensable if we are to envision the truest order of reality. Those components are:
1] Cosmic observations
2] Quantum observations
3] The nature of self
Cosmic observations impart a limited range, authentic nonetheless, picture. We only see what we can see. Quantum level reading broadca...
February 29, 2016
Magnified Universe: Cosmic Landscape in Quantum Décor
Magnified Universe: Cosmic Landscape in Quantum Décor
The theme accentuated
The underlying gist of the blog Magnified Universe: Cosmic Landscape in Quantum Décor is to envision the truest order of reality, or the uttermost flow of reality to be precise—simply because “flow” allows for continual change. Envisioning of the truest order of reality is the biggest of all questions! It is akin to piecing every single bit there is into a crisp comprehensible picture. That would be an insurmountable...
February 22, 2016
Proving it or Making Sense, Part II
Scientific Argumentation and Universal Logic in understanding the Universe
Part II
We were talking about how the alignment of “proving it” and “making sense” goes haywire with descriptions of deeper orders of reality, at times so much so that only the scientist in us happens to stomach them, and part of us still crave for an overarching clearer picture—causing an ever greater rift between the scientific endeavors and seeing the all-encompassing picture of reality, where we also reside. The re...
February 15, 2016
Proving it or Making Sense, Part 1
Scientific Argumentation and Universal Logic in understanding the Universe
In the spirit of garnering enthusiasm for the just published book Physical Laws of the Mathematical Universe: Who Are We?, today we will try to sniff a little on what actually lies in the details of such an overarching theme of this title. I had written the following post a short while ago, but perhaps it just waited in the hard drive to be utilized today. The post is exceedingly fitting to our purpose today, which is...
February 5, 2016
On the TEDx talk
Now a little on the TEDxSLU talk. Indeed, the descriptions of cosmology and quantum mechanics, and how we fit and continue there was the overarching theme, but covered in a light tone to meet the TED style. Enclosed is the first slide. Interestingly, from the responses I got from the smart audience, I felt that the purity and elegance of mathematics is seemingly a bigger catch in seeing the truest reality, than the relatively jumbled descriptions of physics. Can you believe it? I surely can!
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