Yesterday we all received a piece of news that was truly unexpected. Hearing about Sushant Singh Rajput¡¯s untimely death?broke us in ways we cannot truly explain.?
While Sushant Singh Rajput's passing has brought the spotlight back on depression and mental health, but his cryptic Twitter bio is also causing some intrigue among fans and followers.
Some people have been pointing out at what¡¯s written in Sushant Singh Rajput's Twitter bio ¡®photon in a double-slit¡¯, while this might seem like a series of random words, science buffs know exactly what it means.?
Photon in a double-slit refers to a science experiment (also called as a double-slit experiment) which basically means that light and matter show properties of both waves as well as particles. it basically displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical phenomena.?
Initially, scientists thought when light travels, it either shows properties of particles or waves. However, the photon in a double-slit experiment broke this conundrum and denoted that light in fact travels as both waves as well as particles.?
According to Wikipedia, in the experiment, a coherent light source, like a laser beam, lights up a plate pierced by two parallel slits, and the light passing through the slits is observed on a screen behind a plate.
The wave nature of light causes the light waves passing through the two slits to interfere, producing bright and dark bands on the screen ¨C something that wouldn¡¯t turn up had it consisted of classical particles. However, the light is always found to be absorbed in the screen at various points as particles and not waves. The interference pattern surfaces through different densities of these particles hitting on the screen.?
Alternatively, there are variants of this experiment that include sensors at the slits that find that each photon that¡¯s detected, passes through only one slit just like a classical particle, and not through both slits, as a wave would.?
These experiments demonstrate that particles do not form the interference pattern if one detects which slit they pass through thus demonstrating the principle of wave-particle duality.
Many don¡¯t know that even though Sushant Singh Rajput was a very talented actor, he was also a big science buff. In fact, he was a national level Olympiad Winner in Physics.
Sushant Singh Rajput ranked seventh in the Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) Entrance Exam in 2003 while securing his admission for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering).
While he was studying engineering at Delhi Technological University, he was also learning dance at Shiamak Davar. He eventually quit his engineering studies and proceeded to become a full-time actor.?
His recent social media feed often showed his fascination of astronomy, as well. In fact, he had also invested in a state-of-the-art MEADE LX600 telescope which is priced at around Rs 4.2 lakhs.
In his dream list, one of the entries was the visit to the ¡®Large Hadron Collider¡¯ at CERN in Geneva Switzerland -- a place that is also referred to as the Mecca for a physicist.?
It is unfortunate that only now are people are noticing these many interesting facets of Sushant Singh Rajput's life, which tragically ended well before his time.