Practice Session for The Rubik’s Cube Indian Nationals on 25-27 March 2016

Budding Champion Samarth demonstrates his skills, solving Rubik’s Cube 2X2 in 8.04 seconds, in preparation for The Rubik’s Cube Indian Nationals 2016, organised by Technocracy IIT Delhi in association with Capital Cubing to be held on 25-27 March 2016 at IIT Delhi. The competition is open to all competitors of all nationalities. No experience in World Cube Associaiton (WCA) competitions is necessary, but competitors should be familiar … Continue reading Practice Session for The Rubik’s Cube Indian Nationals on 25-27 March 2016

The Domino Effect – A Colorful Demo of a powerful mechanical phenomena that could topple a skyscraper!

A domino effect as demonstrated in the video above is produced when a linked series of events successively create a mechanical impact on the next item in the sequence to produce a chain reaction. Do not underestimate them as some harmless fun! Physicist Van Leeuwen has even presented a calculation to explore if a sequence of dominoes can topple a skyscraper-sized block at http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0615. Each … Continue reading The Domino Effect – A Colorful Demo of a powerful mechanical phenomena that could topple a skyscraper!