February 12, 2009
Mera Bharat Mahan
Slightly modified version of a question sent in by p vs np. Thanks a lot for the question dude!
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Slightly modified version of a question sent in by p vs np. Thanks a lot for the question dude!
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Cracked by everyone!
Answer: Check out p vs np’s comment.
2 is the first nuclear reactor which is a pool type that was named as APSARA(3) by jawahar lal nehru.
However more importantly its the brainchild of the great visionary Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha.
so, connect Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Nehru had likened the blue Cerenkov-radiation of the reactor core to the beauty of the apsaras. Thus the name
Nehru named India’s first Nuclear Reactor, a ‘swimming pool-type’ indigenous reactor APSARA.
2. Čerenkov radiation
3. Apsara from Angkor Wat style
Čerenkov radiation, named after Pavel Alekseyevich Cerenkov, is electromagnatic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through an insulator at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium. The characteristic “blue glow” of nuclear reactors is due to Čerenkov radiation. Apsara is the Hindu mythological characters with which Nehru compared these radiations when he first saw them at a nuclear reactor at the BARC.
And thats the reason the country’s first reactor was named Apsara.
ps: 1. 2nd image was already given in prev bb question Faster Than Light. and,
2. i found the same question here:
http://inquizition.wordpress.com/
2. Cerenkov Radiation
3. Apsaras
One of the reactors at BARC is Apsara (1956; named by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru when he likened the blue Cerenkov radiation to the beauty of the Apsaras (Indra’s court dancers)
2. Cerenkov Radiation
3. Apsaras from the Angkor Vat.
The connection is India’s first nuclear research reactor called Apsara, Dr. Nehru was the one who named it, he compared the blue Cerenkov radiation to the beauty of Apsaras.