On the occasion of Gagarin’s 50th anniversary and Ambedkar Jayanti take a look at my article http://arxiv.org/pdf/1102.2945v2. This corrects (the conceptual defect in) Newton’s “law” of gravitation, and explains the anomalous orbits of NASA spacecraft, and also stars in the galaxy, which that “law” cannot explain (and which have not…
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Believing the propaganda regarding trouble in Iran, I nearly postponed my visit there. However, the situation was entirely peaceful, even at Khorramshahr, the border with Iraq. There was an invasion of dust, so all flights were cancelled, and we had to travel back to Tehran by road, a distance of…
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Though Stephen Hawking seems to have moved on from singularity theory in his latest book (http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/review_the-christian-propaganda-in-stephen-hawkings-work_1495047), there is one point about singularities which still needs to be clarified, since even the Large Hadronic Collider website confounds a singularity with a moment of creation. The question is what sort of singularity?…
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Press reports http://ckraju.net/press/press.html (inaccurate, but some journalists made a good effort, and it is the feeling that counts). Videos of the TGA award ceremony at the University of Pécs, Hungary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-AuJy5tF8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93PVVX_TigU Acceptance speech for the TGA Gold Medal Award, 2010 Dignitaries on the dais, fellow Laureates, friends, I am indeed…
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Dear Professor Hoodbhoy, This refers to your article on “Islam’s arrested development” (Guardian, UK, 25 Nov 2009: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/25/islam-science-muslims-religion). I reproduce below my response posted at http://uk.buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:the_guardian665:47e5bc0f59fdfabb8fd85093cdd0f553/Islams-arrested-development–Pervez-Hoodbhoy — I agree that “Science demands a mindset that incessantly questions and challenges assumptions”. However, I would like to question and challenge the assumption…
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Excerpts from an article by Dr Asghar Ali Engineer in Islam and Modern Age. (Dr Engineer won the Right Livelihood Award also called the alternative Nobel prize.) SCIENCE, WEST AND ISLAMIC ORIGIN OF SCIENCE Asghar Ali Engineer Recently I came across an excellent monograph in the form of a…
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That was the remark that Come Carpentier made from the chair, during the debate at India International Centre, when he asked for questions and people remained silent for what seemed like a couple of minutes before breaking into a rush of questions. The debate was on the “Concepts of science…
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The Wikipedist says: Raju has repeatedly accused Einstein and Newton of plagiarism. The citation is a report by the Hindu. Let us take just the case of Einstein. First, what I did was a lot more substantial. I pointed out a mistake made by Einstein, and overlooked by most researchers…
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An encyclopedia is as good or as bad as its authors, and reflects their level of knowledge, and their biases. In theory it is all very well to say that things can be corrected, but in practice it may be as difficult as correcting astrologers, because confusion abounds, together with all…
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Why did science management fail so badly in post-independence India? Are we repeating the same mistakes? Why do we mindlessly imitate the West in science and math? Why do we regard Western formal math as superior without ever having carried out a comparative evaluation? Are our science and math “experts” even capable…