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Evolution of Quantum mechanics, A quick Summary

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  The most significant development in science has happened in the last 100 years and definitely, it's something we can't deny. The last 100 years have been very very important for modern physics and technology because not only was our knowledge challenged but also, reality transformed for humanity in such a way that we can't really even look back without appreciating the efforts of some influential group of scientists that changed the way that we see the world.  It is believed that the 1st ever experiment that later became the foundation of  quantum mechanics is the most famous experiment, Young's double slit experiment in 1803. Thomas Young is one of the most brilliant minds that the world of science has gotten. He started off as a Physician and something about waves and light always intrigued him. In his career as a physician, he was the first one to notice that the shape of the human eye changes to focus the light incident on the eye at varying distances from the sou
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The Physics behind the stability of Degenerate Stars

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  Introduction:   A star from the day it is formed undergoes multiple phases until no more fuel, that keeps it going, ends. A star is stabilized by the process of stellar nucleosynthesis, i.e., the process of creation of chemical elements within the core of a star by the process of Nuclear Fusion. A star is mostly made up of hydrogen atoms and when this concentration of hydrogen atoms is maximum or more than the percentage of composition of other elements, the star is said to be relatively younger. The process of nuclear fusion helps in fusing the hydrogen atoms to form helium atoms which again fuses to produce heavier mass atoms and along with this fusion process, there is an extreme amount of thermal energy released which plays a significant role in the stability of a star. The thermal energy so released, exerts a large amount of thermal radiation pressure on the star in an outward direction, and this balances out the gravitational pressure exerted by the star on itself and h
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A brief discussion on the spitzer space telescope

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                                                                                             Space telescopes have always been a great deal for astronomical observations in the last 3 decades. We have achieved miraculous observational data that helped us find the mysteries that had been hiding from our eyes all these years. One must be wondering, why exactly do we need to launch a telescope to space whereas astronomers around the globe have found equally amazing information from the ground-based telescopes? To be fair and honest, ‘equally amazing’ is slightly exaggerated, and here’s why. Our atmosphere has always kept us safe from many unwanted harmful rays throughout all these years. However, the atmospheric phenomena are very random and mostly unpredictable. Have you ever noticed the twinkling of stars? Why exactly does it happen? Due to the atmospheric turbulence, the refractive index of the atmosphere in a particular region may vary spontaneously, and hence for a given incid
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