Saturday, July 26, 2003


Surely, you are all criminals Mr. Feynman!


I have discussed this with friends so many times - How could the great scientists like Feynman and others live with the burden of an atomic bomb weighing on their conscience or was it that they realized how horrible the effects were only after the bomb was dropped ? This email from Prof. Shivshankar of Chennai Math. Institute answers it quite aptly. (The excerpt is from another book)

Sunday, July 13, 2003


Life Cycle of a theoretical physicist


This is funny. And quite close to the truth, if you have ever studied Quantum Field Theory. Read it till the end even if you don't understand what the person is talking about...