Friendship with Science is a series of fun conversations with a range of scientists in India about science that is done here but is, of course, relevant universally, as all good science always is! The conversations will cover fundamental and broad ideas in science -- they will range from atoms to genes, they will go as far out as the sun and come as close to home as making science toys with everyday objects. The conversations will flow across traditional disciplinary boundaries -- they will be about physics, but also biology. They may start in chemistry but meander through mathematics. They will be about how science is done and how scientists think. What excites them? How do they work? Are they really machines that turn coffee into theorems and laws? In short, this series is an invitation to make friendship with science and scientists with a splash of laughter mixed in!

This episode continues the conversation on atomism with K Sridhar, a Physicist and Professor at the Azim Premji University in Bangalore and previously at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. In the conversation we revisit some points related to the standard model and the main focus is on the Higgs mechanism and the Higgs boson.

Taking the conversation up with Prof. Sridhar are Shashi Thutupalli, who may or may not be a scientist and Biswa Kalyan Rath, who is definitely not a comedian!

More in the following links:

Leonard Susskind about the Higgs Boson:    • Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leo...  

Abdus Salam :    • A unifying force (2024): an Abdus Sal...  

Some popular books of interest:

“The Second Creation” by Crease and Mann
"Atom Land" by John Butterworth
"The Particle Explosion" by Frank Close
" The Particle at the End of the Universe" by Sean Carroll

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Past Episodes:
Episode 1 - Atoms with Prof Sridhar K-    • Friendship with Science: Atoms with P...  
Episode 2 -- Toys with Arvind Gupta --    • Friendship with Science | Toys : Arvi...  
Episode 3 -- Tigers with Uma Ramakrishnan --    • Friendship with Science | Tigers : Um...  
Episode 4 -- Atoms with Prof Sridhar K --    • Friendship with Science: Atoms 2 with...  
Episode 5 -- Hairy Sun with Piyali Chatterjee, OVSN Murthy --    • Friendship with Science| Hairy Sun: P...