Nearing the end of the first semester of 2022, some second-year Physical Science students taking PH 2006 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology were invited by their industry case study mentors for a ... Read more
Author: Pramudith Fernando
Solutions To A Quantum Conundrum
In quantum mechanics, particles are described by their “quantum states”, mathematical objects that describe the probabilities of observing different results after measurements on them. Quantum entanglement is the effect ... Read more
The Unkept Tank
The fish tank was with life teeming
Resilient to change it was seeming
Colourful and lively, on his shelf,
A lovingly cared expression of self.
Its master now preoccupied,
The tank neglected, ... Read more
Memes, But Not The Kind You’re Thinking Of
What do TikTok trends, Sri Lankans honking their horns invoking a certain black bird, catchy tunes that everyone hums, adding an ‘m’ between syllables of a word, “sad doge”, “distracted ... Read more
Insights On The Most Important Discussion Of Our Time
In the highly informative, yet accessible book “Life 3.0”, author Max Tegmark presents the developments, challenges and possibilities of superhuman AI, explaining the topics which form the basis of the discussion, while ... Read more
Probing the Higgs Boson
In 2012 CERN discovered the highly elusive fundamental particle named the Higgs Boson and in later experiments, the particle’s theoretically predicted interactions with many other particles were experimentally confirmed. In ... Read more
33, 42 and “Sums of Three Cubes”
Let us write 29 as 29 = x³ + y³ + z³, plug in any integers for x, y, z. One set of solutions is 29 = 3³ + 1³ + 1³. Pretty simple and intuitive, right? Similarly, how about 30? Not so much. The only known solution involves ... Read more
When Logic Has Left The Chat
Bad arguments are everywhere, be it on debates, news or on social media, there’s always faulty reasoning and dishonest methods of persuasion. Done either knowingly or not, or with whatever intent, everyone’s guilty of it to ... Read more