S. V. G. Menon

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How science enriches society? Is it that science should provide roads to significant changes so that people forget older beliefs ?

Science was at the helm of affairs in our country (India) at some point of past time. History says so. But today it is not in the main steam. At best, Indian scientists repeat what has already...

11 November 2017 4,024 3 View

What are the current views and thinking on Physical Reality and Physics?

It is said that the resolution of the collapse of wave function in a measurement is one of the unsolved problems of quantum mechanics (see "The trouble with physics" by Lee Smolin). There could...

09 September 2014 4,488 17 View

When can Quantum Theory and Observer be applied?

In the Copenhagen interpretation of QM, properties of a system begin to be realistic when the observer makes appropriate measurements and observations. Does it mean that the laws of QM were...

09 September 2014 6,381 4 View

Does quantum field theory resolve the measurement problem in quantum mechanics?

Recently I read a paper titled "Quantum field theory solves the problem of the collapse of the wave function" by Alexey V. Melkikh (arXiv:1311.0205v1 - quant-ph). An earlier paper on the same...

09 September 2014 7,200 42 View

Are the the abilities of the human species limited ?

Just like other living species, the abilities of human beings must also be limited. Ants in an ant colony do not move away more than a few meters. Some animals travel a few kilo meters searching...

03 March 2014 8,182 4 View

Why is it that orbital free DFT, like Thomas-Fermi model and improvements, is not very accurate for solids at normal conditions?

These theories do not account for shell structure of electron energy states which are crucial to the properties of solids at normal conditions.

02 February 2014 6,551 14 View

Is it feasible at all to obtain complete knowledge of nature with the ways and methods we attempt?

Human brain did not evolve to discover the way nature works, I think. Human species is just one of the several thousand species known to exist. However, we have a large brain and certain abilities...

02 February 2014 3,302 2 View