Particle physicist D. Indumathi talks about how she became a scientist, the challenges Indian scientists face and more.
The past few years in particle physics have been exciting both for the scientists who study it as well as for the general public. A number of fantastic sounding discoveries were made, for example, the elusive gravitational waves and the Higgs boson particle.
Then there was also the 2011 hullabaloo about elementary particles called neutrinos allegedly found to be travelling faster than light. Einstein had observed over a 100 years ago that no object could travel faster than the speed of light and the apparent violation of this rule was described in an article by physicist Ransom Stephens in Nautilus as “An atom bomb in the heart of our understanding of the universe.”
(Below is a nice MinutePhysics video on the discovery, before it was proved wrong.)