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" We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Obsession
Dark
Missing
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" As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe. "
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" Finding the first seed black holes could help reveal how the relation between black holes and their host galaxies evolved over time. "
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" No one wants to walk across a crowd-sourced bridge. "
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" We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails. "
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" Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing. "
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Been
Always
" I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that first-year students show up with. "
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Show
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I Am
" 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. "
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Escape
Black
Gravity
" Data suggest that central black holes might play an important role in adjusting how many stars form in the galaxies they inhabit. For one thing, the energy produced when matter falls into the black hole may heat up the surrounding gas at the center of the galaxy, thus preventing cooling and halting star formation. "
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Stars
Important
Black
" We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Giving Up
Desire
Giving
" Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Learning
Students
History
" Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it. "
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Part
Admit
Everyone
" All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Made
Inventory
Four
" I fell in love with the night sky when I first looked through a telescope as a young girl growing up in Delhi. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Love
Night
Girl
" We cannot decide on the efficacy of a medical treatment by counting the number of 'Likes' an intervention receives on Facebook; no matter what, professionals will still need to conduct continued clinical trials and evaluate their outcomes carefully. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Will
Medical
Need
" Research in any domain of science today requires specialized training to build up knowledge and clinical competence. To make major breakthroughs, we need people with expertise who are engaged in sustained research over a long period of time - in a word, scientists. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
People
Science
Knowledge
" The precise effects of lensing depend on the mass of the lens, the structure of space-time, and the relative distance between us, the lens, and the distant object behind it. It's like a magnifying glass, where the image you get depends on the shape of the lens and how far you hold it from the object you're looking at. "
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You
Depend
Distance
" 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
Data
Science
Nature
" I am a phenomenologist - I work on developing theoretical models that are constrained by observations. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Work
I Am
Am
" My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems. This critical shortcoming appears in high school and possibly in elementary grades - long before college. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Knowledge
School
College
" Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Numbers
Growing Up
Long
" 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
Cooperation
Field
Genetics
" 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
Context
Mysterious
Deep
" 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. "
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Believe
Facts
Nature
" 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. "
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Civilization
Solar
Own
" 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
I Am
Why
Trying
" 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
Now
Play
Process
" My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums. "
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Cash
Buy
Change
" As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim. "
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Education
Victim
Over
" Science is evidence-based and provides a continuing understanding of complex natural phenomena. Our understanding is constantly evolving and continually improving. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Our
Understanding
Science
" In an era of ever-increasing globalization, what it takes to become and remain a science superpower has fundamentally changed. "
Priyamvada Natarajan
Become
Science
Changed