This feature-length article was originally written for the September-October 2017 issue of Popular Astronomy magazine. Through a modest 4-inch telescope on a clear night, you might be able to see the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter. Through a meter-wide telescope, you might just be able to make out the characteristic blips in… Continue reading Bring Me The Event Horizon
This is just a short post to advertise our new pre-print that appeared on arXiv this morning: “Time Evolution in Many-Body Localized Phases with the Flow Equation Approach”. I’ll save the full write-up of it until the paper is properly published: for my non-academic readers, let me just be clear up front that this is… Continue reading New Paper: Time Evolution in Many-Body Localized Phases
In 1960, Theodore Maiman and co-workers created the world’s first laser. Working on the principle of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, the beam produced by a laser is unique in that all the photons in the beam have both the same wavelength and the same phase. Because of this innocuous-sounding property, the humble… Continue reading Where Randomness Meets Subatomic Precision
So. Hi. Here we are again. Remember me? It’s been a while, I admit. Somewhere back in the mists of time, I launched this new blog with the promise of more frequent posts and in the time since then, I’ve barely posted anything and it’s been over six months since the last thing I wrote.… Continue reading It’s a bit quiet in here
Here we go again. I didn’t really want to write this post. I’m reluctant to give further visibility to something that’s already overly sensationalised. I’m also a little scared of wading back into this controversy, especially since others have already done fantastic jobs, but against my better judgement, here we are. The last time I… Continue reading The Impossible Space Engine is Back
Welcome! Having not blogged for a long while, not to mention having tired of my old site, I’ve decided to refresh things a little with a new blog. I want to do things a little differently with this site. I’m aiming for shorter, more frequent posts. I want to write more about my own science… Continue reading Strange Deja Vu
[This feature article was originally written for Popular Astronomy and appears in their May/June 2016 issue.] A little over a billion years ago, back when complex life on Earth was just getting started, two black holes were colliding in a far-off galaxy. Each as massive as thirty Suns, these two behemoths spiralled towards each… Continue reading Ripples in Space Open New Window on Cosmos
Broken Symmetry 