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[s4s] Educational Hour 2
2016-05-21 16:48:57 Post No. 4438218
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Anonymous
2016-05-21 16:48:57
Post No. 4438218
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Hi [s4s], welcome to the second ever [s4s] Educational Hour! Today we are going to be learning about a neat guy named Satyendra Nath Bose.
He was an Indian quantum mechanics guy and got his name put on some stuff like "Bose-Einstein condensate" and "Bose-Einstein statistics." As you can tell, he was best buds with Einstein. The cool thing is this guy was just in India being smart and doing math and no one knew about him (because India lmao), then he heard about Einstein and was like "I'm gonna write to him about this smart stuff I'm thinking about" so he did and they were pen pals.
He figured out Bose-Einstein statistics all of a sudden one day during a lecture, I'm not really sure how it works but it has to do with predicting what photons are going to do, he discovered that if photons were like coins and could be either heads or tails, instead of the chance of getting something like two heads in a row being 1/4 like normal coins, it would actually be 1/3 if it's photons. I don't really know why though. Pretty neat, huh?
He kept thinking of smart stuff until the end of his days, but he never won a Nobel Prize or anything and most people don't really know much about him. He made the world a better place by being a curious lil guy, which is something nice we should all aspire to.
