IUCAA log files

I am here, inside the seminar hall of IUCAA, named- BHASKARA-S3. I am listening Waves, Transverse waves, Gravitational waves, Riemann Tensor, Equation, K mu, K nu= 0, Box h, K mu is a null vector, it lies on a light cone, going to future light cones, Massless field, 3*10^8 m/s, Universal time, and much more exotic. The lecture is being taken by Prof. S.V.Dhurandhar.

He is taking a lecture on Gravitational Waves, in his time slot of 9.30 a.m to 10.30 a.m. This is the first lecture of this day, and I am going off my head. Myself, being interested in Theoretical work in Physics, but studying B.Tech, engineering, has the ardor to attend these kind of HARDCORE Physics. I am tasting the bitter and acerbic flavour of abstract kind of theories, mathematical, going into the insightful aspects of nature. 

These lectures are a part of the Vacation Student's Programme, of IUCAA, in which I have been picked for. For those, who don't know, what this abbreviated abstract term is, I would like to convey that, it expamds as- INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, Pune, India. The VSP programme, which started from 11th of May, consistes of a series of lectures being taken by professors like- J.V.Narlikar, T.Padmanabhan, Varun Sahni, Dipankar Bhattacharya, S.V.Dhurandhar, and more. Now, Prof. S.V.Dhurandhar is giving a lecture, moving from here to there, trying to explain us MATRIX TENSOR, SYMMETRY, GRAVITATIONAL SYSTEMS, etc. And I am correspondingly, along with the lectures, in synchronization, scribbling on this notebook of mine, provided to us on the very first day of our VSP programme. I am not understanding even a bit of this Mathematical Expressionism Orgy (MEO). 

So at this point of time, I nurture, and possess, the same opinion for 99.7 % of the respectable pupils sitting out here. Difference being, I am a B.Tech, and they are teachers, MSc Physics, Physics Lecturers,. etc. 

So, you may infer, that in this lecture at present, a whole color of audions are present. This moment, being for the first time, I am helpless totally and graspings NULLS and VOIDS, instead of GENERAL RELATIVITY, and ASTROPHYSICS. These topics are so elegant, trying to express the nature's mood, emotion, feeling, thought, pain, complexity, simplicity, and the Space-Time structure to precision. But still, someday, (perhaps through some ingenious work), a more subtle theory of all the three forces of NATURE, will bolster itself. BLIMEY..!!! there is LANDAU LIFSHITZ QUADRUPOLE formula on board. Inertia Tensor, Extra Dimensions, Second Derivatives, T minus 2, Binary systems, Neutron Stars, Compact Objects, High Energy, VIRIAL Theorum, Gravitational Potential Well, etc. etc. Well...welll..... HIATUS for 10 minutes, until we have a tea break. Compact sources wil give rise to Gravitatioanl waves. Gravitational forces are so weak, PITY on it..!!! Or, it rules the universe? 

There, it is occurring few minor hitches with the laptop in use for the Lecture by the Prof... Prof. S.V.Dhurandhar is standing, waiting for the laptop to get fixed. One of the teachers asked the Prof. a minor question as doubt, trying to confront him. In return, Prof. turned him down. Elucidating that, he was wrong. This is almost the time of finishing, but it will perhaps stretch due to the minor hitches which occurred in prior.

GOSH!!! On the screen- GRAVITATIONAL WAVES EXIST..!! Noble Prize was given to HULSE and TAYLOR for discovering Gravitational Waves in 1993, in a BINARY PULSAR SYSTEM. Decay in orbit of Binary Pulsar PSR 1913 + 16. Gravitational waves are produced by BULK Motion of Matter. It is not easily scattered, and has high fidelity of information. It has frequency > 10^4. Information is ORTHOGONAL to Electro-Magnetic Waves- it means- REVOLUTION IN ASTRONOMY.

So, coming on to the final frontier-i.e. GRAVITATIONAL WAVES ASTRONOMY, it creates ripples of anxiety, anticipation, and expectations on your body!  Charged Blackholes. Electromagnetic Waves can also produce GRAVITATION.

Whoosh..!! Such an energizing dose of lecture it was. Full of extreme edges of Physics and Metaphysics, it was. Even while writing this write up, on my notebook, it produces Gravitational Waves, but the coupling constant will be of the order of 10^-50, which are GODDAMN feeble to detect. Now, after finishing this lecture (20 minutes delayed at 10.40 a.m.), tea is waiting for me to be consumed. But, I prefer to write this BLOG ENTRY of mine.

You know, that the facilities provided by IUCAA are overwhelming, and the ambience of the campus is impressive to live. A central garden, just adjacent to this seminar hall, heralds the greenery and thought stop. 4 great scientists of all times- Einstein, Newton, Aryabhatta, Varahamahira, are standing tall in bliss, with full of benediction for the bereft societies.

I am off for tea now. Continued after the tea is- Prof. S.N.Tandon’s  lecture on SPACE ASTRONOMY from 11.00 a.m. He is here- BLANCH hairs, SMART personality, LATE fifties, or sixties.

I am interested in this lecture, so bbyeah till next post (very soon). Keep your spectrum of mind tuned, to gather more news of IUCAA, and all its exquisite details.

{NB: THIS BLOG ENTRY WAS WRITTEN BY ME YESTERDAY, INSIDE THE LECTURE HALL, WHILE ATTENDING THE LECTURE BY Prof. S.V.Dhurandhar. THE BLOG IS SUPPOSED TO BE READ IN A VERY PRESENT FORM OF REFERENCE, AS IF ALL THE EVENTS ARE HAPPENING WITH ME AT THIS MOMENT OF TIME. }

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 Siddartha S Verma