Description: My thoughts on and your responses to interesting topics in the Physical Sciences
My thoughts on and your responses to interesting topics in the Physical Sciences
collapsed About Contact A story of commutators Schrodinger’s Cat Lives again! Three pieces – and some puzzles Carnot engine Menu expanded Unruh and Hawking – or how I get randomness from order, i.e., something ordered that looks random. I have been planning to write a post about something rather esoteric, called the Unruh effect (and its intellectual descendant, the Hawking effect) and wanted to find a way to explain it to a high-school student. In the process, I discovered a new way to look at the effect,
Once I did submit the article, I discovered that the same idea was invented earlier (26 years to be precise) by a group of physicists from TIFR in India – led by the incomparable Thanu Padmanabhan. However, in addition, I also devised an experiment that one could perform to try and test this rather weak effect.