Have you ever received a partly garbled email? Might mixtures be made of mixtures? Are you a separate being? Do you stand ‘in’ history? How is coming-together different from mixing? Is it possible to separate out the constituents from a mixture without knowing what they are? Why does the chiral environment of the body matter? How difficult is pure separation, & why? Can separation or decoding be done in real time? Is separation trivial after mixing? Do different groups constrain individual identities differently? Can partitions be constructions? Why is vote-to-seat conversion so difficult in elections? Does noise have statistical properties? How are filters designed? Do signals always have a continuity property? Why is it so difficult to factorize into two large prime numbers? Can individuality be dissolved (in, say, a mob)? What is the opposite of a mob? Can certain systems be made nearly impossible to partition? What is the future of separations and partitions: Will quantum computing force change in encryption? How would enantiomers be separated? Would entry and exit barriers be lower in several contexts? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from chemistry (Prof. Ravi Bhushan, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee), mathematics & statistics (Prof. Rajeeva L. Karandikar, Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Chennai), & social sciences (Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan, JNU, New Delhi). Listen in…

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