Jekyll2022-09-28T05:26:56-05:00https://bitsphyassoc.github.io/blog/feed.xmlThe official blog of the Physics Association of BITS Pilani2022-09-28T00:00:00-05:002022-09-28T00:00:00-05:00https://bitsphyassoc.github.io/blog/physics/the%20god%20particle/particle%20physics/higgs%20boson/nobel%20prize/cern/2022/09/28/HiggsBoson["Sukriti Mathur- Writer", "Umang Agarwal- Writer", "Abhinav Choudhary- Chief Editor"]

The particle, now called the Higgs boson, first appeared in a 1964 scientific treatise by Peter Higgs. At that time, physicists were working to explain the weak force (one of the four fundamental forces of nature) using a framework called quantum field theory.

2022-07-20T00:00:00-05:002022-07-20T00:00:00-05:00https://bitsphyassoc.github.io/blog/sun/measurement/physics/2022/07/20/fireballShanmugha Balan

When we look to the skies on a bright day, there is one magnificent and brilliant body radiating its kind warmth onto our planet in just the right amount to sustain life. The physical extent of this luminous companion in our skies is so vast that we simply can not comprehend it with our puny logarithmic human brains. Yet it is these puny brains that have somehow managed to estimate the size of the Sun with remarkable precision. Obviously there was no one with a measuring tape or weighing scale to actually take these measurements. So how did we do it?

2022-02-02T00:00:00-06:002022-02-02T00:00:00-06:00https://bitsphyassoc.github.io/blog/alternate%20dimensions/speed%20of%20light/einstein%E2%80%99s%20field%20equations/2022/02/02/HyperspaceAryan Singh

Reader’s caution: Ideas written in this article have been put forward by near-crazy physicists and have no experimental basis to them. It can all possibly turn out to be utter nonsense if experiments show findings against these theories. Nonetheless, these ideas are essential to understand the theories put forward to explain this weird reality of ours.

2021-12-20T00:00:00-06:002021-12-20T00:00:00-06:00https://bitsphyassoc.github.io/blog/space/isro/indian%20space%20research%20organization/gaganyaan/manned%20mission/2021/12/20/GaganyaanAryan Singh

What’s the Craze all About?! Space, the final frontier! The ultimate playground for human curiosity and ingenuity. USA and Russia have etched their names in this quest of helping mankind reach space, and all the credit goes to their amazingly redundant and ingenious space flight programmes.These two countries are the 2 out of the only 3 nations that have successfully launched manned missions into space. We have the “Cold War ‘’ to thank for, for it was the reason why these two countries were able to achieve what they did. A period of great rivalry between them, this also extended to space missions, leading to what is now known as the “Space Race”.

2021-11-04T00:00:00-05:002021-11-04T00:00:00-05:00https://bitsphyassoc.github.io/blog/quantum%20computation/errors/bloch%20sphere/2021/11/04/quantum-errorUday Singla

To err is human. Sadly, computers do that too. Classical computers play around with a multitude of bits at any point in time. It is not hard for a noisy environment to flip random bits here and there. A single bit flip can lead to a tsunami of errors in calculations; multiple bit flips can be devastating. Fortunately, modern-day computers handle these errors quite well, and we have elegant error-correcting codes (ECCs) at hand. Redundancy is at the heart of such error-correcting codes. Let us see how: