Simple person
with simple life style to make complex concepts into simple and well understood
to the common people is the motif of life of a renowned scientist, whose
contribution to the physics is invaluable. Ashoke Sen, the prestigious
fundamental physics award winner for his
contribution to the ''String Theory'' was invited to the technical festival (Techfest)
of IIT Bombay on 4th Jan 2012 lecture series.
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| Ashoke Sen during open interaction with students |
My previous believe and the
information I had was totally imperceptible about him paying attention as a reclusive shy scientist. In the
mean time I would like to mention that Sen is not shy/reclusive, rather he
likes to be simpler and may be the simplest way of living. He was wearing the big “Chasma”
(can be seen in any other Google Images), simple T-shirt... after all a man
with simplicity. My wish came true as I got the opportunity to attend his live
lecture in this event of Techfest. His presentation and interaction was one the
simplest of all I have ever attended. At that time a question came to my
mind, is Ashoke Sen a big fan of Einstein??? Einstein's popular quote "to
make simpler something is the toughest job" exactly the way Ashoke Sen was
trying to convey the message during his presentation.
His lecture includes the basic
parts
* The basic understanding of
elementary particles (Quarks, Leptons, Mediators, Higgs).
* Connections between Quantum
Mechanics and Modern Theory of Relativity.
* Imagination of 9 dimensions,
indeed it is a bit difficult to understand the four dimensions.
String
theory is a concept based on modern relativity theory and quantum mechanics.
His innovative ideas and his efforts may be substantially beneficial in the
search of a unified theory. He says that to find a phase of string
theory that has exactly the elementary particles one can observe in nature is
an open problem to be solved.
Author: Chandan Das
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