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Priyamvada Natarajan
Indian
Scientist
Black
Dark
Matter
Science
Universe
Work
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Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments, more data and better data hone our understanding further. Social, cultural, economic, and political context are relevant to our understanding of how science works.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Time
Nature
Knowledge
Science
Better
Political
Invention
Understanding
Our
Further
Relevant
Data
More
Economic
Fact
Instruments
Scientific
Scientific Knowledge
How
Context
Due
Cultural
Provisional
Goes
Social
Works
Hone
If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the object and your eye.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Work
You
Light
Path
Eye
Out
Object
Followed
Shape
Between
Know
Get
Work Out
Lens
Your
Image
Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Positive
Adversity
Journey
Nature
Me
Discipline
Focus
Face
Hopeful
Faced
Mental
Both
Tenacity
Remain
Tend
Thus
Obstacles
Also
Am
Greatly
Very
Optimistic
Personal
Traits
Far
Helped
Professional
We already have a pretty good knowledge of the universe's mass-energy content, so if we can get a handle on its geometry, then we will be able to work out exactly what the fate of the universe will be.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Work
Good
Knowledge
Fate
Will
Universe
Out
Exactly
Exactly What
Able
Pretty
Pretty Good
Content
Geometry
Handle
Get
Work Out
Then
In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Learning
School
Addition
Approaches
Innovative
System
Classroom
Outside
School System
Encourage
Exploit
Need
The pace and demands in any field, be it genetics, nanotechnology or cosmology, can only be met with increased international cooperation and collaborative projects.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Met
Field
Increased
Collaborative
Projects
Cosmology
Only
Demands
Genetics
Nanotechnology
Any
Pace
International
International Cooperation
Cooperation
The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third.
Priyamvada Natarajan
You
Fate
Universe
Know
Content
Geometry
Linked
Deduce
Two
Third
I am obsessed with trying to understand why there is such rampant denialism of science in our country. I find this exuberant irrationalism extremely disturbing. And this is particularly troubling, because I am a professional scientist.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Science
Country
Rampant
Our
Extremely
Exuberant
Find
Disturbing
Troubling
Obsessed
Particularly
Because
Understand
Am
Scientist
Trying
Professional
Why
The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Our
Locate
Ourselves
Seek
Cosmic
Seems
Mysterious
Context
Imprinted
Impulse
Deep
Fascination
We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.
Priyamvada Natarajan
World
Solar
Own
Speeding
Our
Ruin
Solar System
System
Carrying
Introduction
Record
Civilization
Remain
Beyond
Make
Sure
Caused
Human
Human Civilization
Sent
Them
Epitaph
Need
Finding the first seed black holes could help reveal how the relation between black holes and their host galaxies evolved over time.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Time
Black
First
Relation
Evolved
Finding
Black Holes
Seed
Could
Host
Between
Over
Reveal
How
Holes
Galaxies
Help
Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even light can escape.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Light
Black
Immense
Astronomical
Black Holes
Objects
Area
Escape
Where
Holes
Warped
Even
Enigmatic
Gravity
Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Political
Everyone
Admit
No-One
Part
Tenure
Likes
Acknowledge
We knew from theoretical models that mergers of massive, gas-rich galaxies were more frequent in the past. Now we've found that these mergers are responsible for producing both the nearby obscured quasar population and their distant cousins.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Past
Distant
Responsible
More
Both
Obscured
Knew
Mergers
Massive
Frequent
Cousins
Were
Models
In The Past
Galaxies
Producing
Theoretical
Population
Found
Now
Nearby
Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they are likely the prima donnas of this space opera.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Key
Space
Black
Evidence
Has-Been
Black Holes
Prima
Likely
Opera
Been
Role
Mounting
Formation
Process
Holes
Galaxy
Appears
Now
Play
It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works. I firmly believe that this is the only effective way forward to combat the widespread distrust in facts and science.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Needs
Nature
Science
Better
Believe
Way
Inquiry
Distrust
About
Only
Facts
Firmly
Idea
Combat
Scientific
How
Educated
Effective
Effective Way
Process
Public
Forward
Works
Widespread
Being nimble and ready to change our minds if need be is an attribute that is crucial to live and thrive in a society that is powered by science and technology, both as an individual and as an engaged citizen.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Technology
Change
Science
Citizen
Thrive
Science And Technology
Live
Society
Nimble
Our
Minds
Both
Individual
Crucial
Powered
Attribute
Ready
Being
Engaged
Need
The invisible and unseen has always fascinated us humans.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Unseen
Invisible
Always
Us
Fascinated
Humans
Dark matter is one of the dominant constituents of the universe, which piled up in certain parts of the universe due to gravity, and in those regions, galaxies were formed. It is the unseen thing that holds the universe together.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Together
Dark
Matter
Universe
Those
Constituents
Unseen
Parts
Piled
Due
Were
Up
Dominant
Holds
Which
Formed
Galaxies
Regions
Certain
Thing
Gravity
We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Dark
Matter
Synthesis
Obsession
Missing
Piece
Scientists
Irritating
Grand
Unification
I am a phenomenologist - I work on developing theoretical models that are constrained by observations.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Work
Constrained
Observations
Developing
Am
Models
Theoretical
I find the world with its inequities and injustices to be messy, unfair, and complicated. The cosmos, on the other hand, is orderly and beautiful - this I find terribly alluring and captivating.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Beautiful
World
Complicated
Unfair
Other
Find
Cosmos
Alluring
Terribly
Messy
Hand
Orderly
Captivating
Injustices
As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Education
Fall
Victim
Congress
Programs
Spending
Battles
Cost
Imperative
Over
Does
Education Programs
Math
Cutting
Funding
In an era of ever-increasing globalization, what it takes to become and remain a science superpower has fundamentally changed.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Science
Become
Changed
Superpower
Remain
Takes
Globalization
Era
Fundamentally
Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Science
Progress
Starts
Evidence
Paradigm
Point
Point Of View
Support
New
Occur
Occurs
Shifts
Fits
View
Evidence-based reasoning underpins all scientific thinking, and it involves testing hypotheses or theories against data. Validating a theory requires replicable measurements from independent groups with different equipment and methods of analysis. Convergence of evidence is critical to the acceptance of a scientific idea.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Acceptance
Thinking
Analysis
Validating
Evidence
Independent
Critical
Data
Hypotheses
Idea
Involves
Scientific
Equipment
Testing
Methods
Different
Convergence
Against
Requires
Theories
Theory
Measurements
Reasoning
Groups
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