{"id":303,"date":"2020-10-15T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/?p=303"},"modified":"2023-07-07T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T10:00:46","slug":"why-engineers-need-greek-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/why-engineers-need-greek-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawaal-Jawaab: Why engineers need Greek philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/27.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/27.png 680w, https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/27-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Surajit and his graduate students have come up with simulations at very tiny length scales that can predict the yield point of solids almost 12 orders of magnitude away. This comes from an intersection of two theories- Heraclitus who said that everything flows, and Democritus who said that this flow was because of rearrangement of atoms.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> September 04, 2019<br><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Prof. Surajit Sengupta (TIFR Hyderabad)<br><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Phoenix Arena<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Photographs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"306\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20_1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=306#main\" class=\"wp-image-306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20_1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20_1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/21_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"307\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/21_1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=307#main\" class=\"wp-image-307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/21_1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/21_1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/26_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"308\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/26_1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ftp.tifrh.res.in\/~suman\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=308#main\" class=\"wp-image-308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/26_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/26_1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surajit and his graduate students have come up with simulations at very tiny length scales that can predict the yield point of solids almost 12&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~sciencemedia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}