Happily resigned from PhD. JRF @iacskolkata (2025)/ MSc @iiest_s (2023)/ BSc (H) @sxc_cal (2021). Chemistry, drawing, dance & music 💜
Barasat, India
Joined October 2021
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Somsuta Ray retweeted
crazy how in India, profs/teachers have this unnecessary ego and you’re taught to “fear”them??😭
meanwhile in France, professors are so friendly and reachable, invite you to lunch, and genuinely feel like your buddies 😃
lowkey unlearning years of academic anxiety haha 😆
Somsuta Ray retweeted
A Physics paper that has 5154 authors ✍️
A record-breaking publication of a physics paper having the largest number of contributors ever- 5154. The article was published in Physical Review Letters and comprises a total of 33 pages. The actual research and references are only described in the first 9 pages. The remaining 24 pages are dedicated to listing the authors and their respective institutions.
The paper is titled,
“Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments”
Somsuta Ray retweeted
The first rule of learning is to admit you don’t know. The second rule is to never stop asking why.
Somsuta Ray retweeted
Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.
-- "Simulating Physics with Computers", 1982
Somsuta Ray retweeted
The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.
Somsuta Ray retweeted
Johann Bernoulli posed the problem to the mathematicians of Europe in 1696; it remains vital today in quantum mechanics and many other fields.
If a ball is to roll down a ramp which connects two points, what must be the shape of the ramp's curve, such that the descent time is a minimum?
Intuition says that it should be a straight line. That would minimise the distance, but the minimum time happens when the ramp curve is a cycloid.
