I am a student from an IIT and I think I can write something about an IIT lifestyle. IITs are established to nurture 'bright minds' of our country so my focus will be on the students rather than on the faculties and staffs. I would not like to mention my identity and I will not focus on any particular IIT because I have visited four IITs and I have found all of them to be same, apart from minor, some differences in infrastructure and facility. To common people, IIT is an institute where only geniuses reside. In the competitive world, we see today, cracking an IIT exam is considered the most difficult. It is in fact very competitive and requires a lot of hard work to enter one. With new government policies, almost every Indian state now harbours an IIT. With more and more number of seats available, I would like to say that the quality of IIT is not as good as it used to be. However, it is for the greater good, because, with increasing number of IITs, the chance to become
Something unusual has been just achieved by a curious PhD student at Oxford's Ion Trap Quantum Computing lab. David Nadlinger, on 12 Feb. 2018, has photographed a strontium atom suspended in air by electric fields, to win 2018 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council science photography competition. The photo “a Single Atom In An Ion Trap”, was taken using ordinary DSLR camera, at Oxford University laboratory. "The idea of being able to see a single atom with the naked eye had struck me as a wonderfully direct and visceral bridge between the minuscule quantum world and our macroscopic reality. When I set off to the lab with a camera and tripods one quiet Sunday afternoon, I was rewarded with the particular picture of a small, pale blue dot," said Nadlinger. Strontium atom trapped between electrodes. Image Credit: David Nadlinger/University of Oxford If you look closely, you will find a pale dot suspended between two electrodes. This small d