My science interests are focused on understanding of the fundamental structure of matter. I would really like to know the answer to a simple question: What is an electron? It has mass and it has charge; what does that really mean? Where does that mass come from? What does it really mean to have a “charge”? Why are charges quantized?
This is a golden time to be a physicist! For the first time ever, one can actually ask the questions like “what was it like before the Big-Bang?”
I also edited/wrote a book on Blackholes titled Blackholes, Membranes, Wormholes and Superstrings: International Symposium (Hardcover) World Scientific Pub Co Inc (September 1993) by S. Kalara (Author) Amazon Link. It is out of print, so you can only buy a used copy.
Another thing that brings me great deal of delight is the “first light” of a new telescope. I make it a point to write about it in my blog at http://www.sunnykalara.com/blog. Appropriately, the blog is called Dark Matter.
Other science themed topics that I find fascinating include Evolutionary Psychology - why do we think and feel the way we do; antique machinery - left to my own devices, can I really “make” something?; solving Fermi Problems - if something has a quantitative answer, one should be able to guesstimate it by doing a back of the envelope calculation.
Over the years, I have written over 50 papers in physics. A sample list of my publications is here:
A short list of my papers:
Calculable nonrenormalizable terms in string theory: A guide for the practitioner
S Kalara, JL Lopez, DV Nanopoulos - Nuclear Physics B, 1991 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Smithsonian/NASA ADS Physics Abstract Service. Title: Calculable
nonrenormalizable terms in string theory: A guide for the practitioner.
Authors: Kalara, S.; Lopez, Jorge L.; Nanopoulos, D. V. Affiliation …
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Nonrenormalizable terms in the free fermionic formulation of 4D strings -
S Kalara, JL Lopez, DV Nanopoulos - Physics Letters B, 1990 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Smithsonian/NASA ADS Physics Abstract Service. Title: Nonrenormalizable
terms in the free fermionic formulation of 4D strings. Authors: Kalara,
S.; Lopez, Jorge L.; Nanopoulos, D. V. Affiliation …
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Threshold corrections and modular invariance in free fermionic strings -
S Kalara, JL Lopez, DV Nanopoulos - Physics Letters B, 1991 -
adsabs.harvard.edu
Smithsonian/NASA ADS Physics Abstract Service. Title: Threshold corrections and modular invariance in free fermionic strings. Authors: Kalara, S.; Lopez, J. L.; Nanopoulos, D. V. Publication: Physics …
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Density-dependent couplings and astrophysical bounds on light scalar particles
J Ellis, S Kalara, KA Olive, C Wetterich - Physics Letters B, 1989 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Title: Density-dependent couplings and astrophysical bounds on light scalar particles. …
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Theories of inflation and conformal transformation
S Kalara, N Kaloper, KA Olive - Nuclear Physics B, 1990 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Smithsonian/NASA ADS Physics Abstract Service. Title: Theories of inflation
and conformal transformation. Authors: Kalara, Sunil; Kaloper, Nemanja;
Olive, Keith A. Affiliation: Center for Theoretical …
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A. Olive, and C. Wetterich
J Ellis, S Kalara - Phys. Lett. B, 1989
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Yukawa couplings and phenomenology of a three-generation superstring model -
S Kalara, RN Mohapatra - Physical Review D, 1987 - APS
Armed with the explicitly calculated Yukawa couplings and knowledge of discrete
symmetries we discuss the phenomenology of the three-generation superstring
model suggested by Yau. We consider the possibility of CP violation induced …
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Difficulties for field theoretical inflation in string models -
S Kalara, KA Olive - Physics Letters B, 1989 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Smithsonian/NASA ADS Physics Abstract Service. Title: Difficulties for
field theoretical inflation in string models. Authors: Kalara, Sunil; Olive,
Keith A. Affiliation: School of Physics and Astronomy …
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Gravitational equations of motion at the string scale
S Kalara, C Kounnas, KA Olive - Physics Letters B, 1988 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Title: Gravitational equations of motion at the string scale. …
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String duality and black holes
S Kalara, DV Nanopoulos - Physics Letters B, 1991 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Title: String duality and black holes. …
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