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Freeman Dyson and Gravitational Spin Precession
N. D. Hari Dass
In 1974 Hulse and Taylor discovered the binary pulsar. At that time Prof. Dyson was visiting the Max Planck Institute for Physics at Munich, where I was also working. He initiated…
The Superposition Principle in Quantum Mechanics - did the rock enter the foundation surreptitiously?
N. D. Hari Dass
The superposition principle forms the very backbone of quantum theory. The resulting linear structure of quantum theory is structurally so rigid that tampering with it may have ser…
A critique of Sadi Carnot's work and a mathematical theory of the caloric
N. D. Hari Dass
In this work, Sadi Carnot;s fundamental work is critically examined, and contrasted with modern thermodynamics. A mathematical theory of his work is given on the basis of the obser…
Does the first part of the second law also imply its second part?
N. D. Hari Dass
Sommerfeld called the first part of the second law to be the entropy axiom, which is about the existence of the state function entropy. It was usually thought that the second part…