Quantum Century exhibition at Kanhangad college draws visitors

A dependable watercourse of visitors has been turning up to presumption the six-day Quantum Century accumulation organised astatine Nehru Arts and Science College, Kanhangad, arsenic portion of the Quantum Centenary celebrations. The accumulation is jointly organised by the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) and the Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad’s Luca web portal.

The accumulation offers a adjacent look astatine the subject down technologies that person transformed modern life, including energy-efficient LED lights, star panels, televisions, computers, aesculapian lasers, MRI and PET scanners, GPS systems and electron microscopes. Through exhibits, unrecorded experiments and lectures, the organisers purpose to marque analyzable quantum concepts accessible to the public.

Open to visitors till January 9, the accumulation is designed to prosecute students, teachers, researchers and the wide nationalist alike. One of the large attractions is simply a exemplary of Schrödinger’s Cat, conceived by physicist Erwin Schrödinger to explicate quantum principles, which greets visitors astatine the entrance.

According to MLA E. Chandrasekharan, the accumulation has been organised successful a mode that helps the younger procreation recognize a wide scope of technological disciplines. It besides offers the nationalist a wide conceptual overview of quantum science.

CUSAT Physics Department Head Dr. Aldrin Antony said the expo attempts to explicate the periodic table—fundamentally rooted successful quantum concepts—through a ample model, on with displays of disposable elements. Highlights besides see an grounds demonstrating the beingness of antithetic elements successful a smartphone, colour patterns produced erstwhile energy passes done assorted gases, Van de Graaff generator experiments, and virtual world experiences introducing visitors to CERN’s modern particle accelerators.

P. Shaiju, Director of the Centre for Science successful Society astatine CUSAT, said experiments utilizing liquid nitrogen astatine highly debased temperatures signifier a cardinal attraction. Demonstrations connected superconductivity, magnetic levitation owed to the Meissner effect, and colour changes successful LEDs astatine debased temperatures assistance convey precocious technological ideas done elemental ocular experiments.

Deputy Commissioner of GST, Kasaragod, Ramesan Kolikkara, said preparations for the accumulation began with efforts to show the Raman effect, which earned India its archetypal Nobel Prize successful 1930. Several assemblage departments and probe centres collaborated successful processing the exhibits.