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[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

#science #cartoon #tom gauld #particle physics

[shitacademicswrite]

#physics #particle physics #linguistics #psychology

[mindblowingscience]

In 1956, theoretical physicist David Pines predicted that electrons in a solid can do something strange. While they normally have a mass and an electric charge, Pines asserted that they can combine to form a composite particle that is massless, neutral, and does not interact with light. He called this particle a "demon." Since then, it has been speculated to play an important role in the behaviors of a wide variety of metals. Unfortunately, the same properties that make it interesting have allowed it to elude detection since its prediction. Now, a team of researchers led by Peter Abbamonte, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, have finally found Pines' demon 67 years after it was predicted. As the researchers report in the journal Nature, they used a nonstandard experimental technique that directly excites a material's electronic modes, allowing them to see the demon's signature in the metal strontium ruthenate. "Demons have been theoretically conjectured for a long time, but experimentalists never studied them," Abbamonte said. "In fact, we weren't even looking for it. But it turned out we were doing exactly the right thing, and we found it."

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#science #stem #physics #particle physics #demon particle

[moistdragonfruit]

I made this after dumping a bunch of info about leptons onto my friend today skfjdkkdjd

#physics #particle physics #nuclear physics #leptons #electrons #tau #muon #local autistic likes subatomic particles #subatomic particles #quarks #the lepton brothers #i fucking love subatomic particles

[noosphe-re]

Fig. 5. Selected elements from the Atlas of Atomic Nuclear Structures

Sarg, Stoyan. “New approach for building of unified theory about the Universe and some results.” arXiv: General Physics (2002): n. pag.

#atoms #science #physics #universe #unified theory #particle physics #Stoyan Starg

[effectivefeelstheory]

good morning electrons good morning muons good morning taus good morning neutrinos good morning quarks good morning bosons

#that should cover everyone #physics #particle physics #science

[prokopetz]

TV show that personifies the four fundamental forces of the Standard Model as cute anime girls and allegorises the various difficulties that arise from the unified field hypothesis as forms of relationship drama.

#concepts #media #television #tropes #physics #particle physics #standard model #unified field hypothesis #unified field theory #anthropomorphism #fandom #shipping

[pinkmoon-fox]

17.4.

Last exam done! and i already know i passed the one from friday(theoretical electrodynamics). sadly not a good grade but that was to be expected, just happy i wont have to take the lecture again 🥲

the new semester already started on monday, i have to catch up on the lecture i missed yesterday. but had my first computational physics lecture today and it was really nice! looking forward to this :>>

#dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #physics #academia vibes #studyblr #study blog #study motivation #studying #study #study notes #uni work #uni #university #theoretical physics #particle physics #quantum physics

[natureintheory]

A collection of wearable 3D art inspired by science:

✦ NEW: Wave-Particle Duality Pendant ✦ The Wave-Particle Duality Rings ✦ A Candle in the Dark: Lantern Earrings

Available now on Shapeways!

✦ Shapeways.com/shops/nature-in-theory ✦ Linktr.ee/NatureInTheory

Original designs © Olena Shmahalo / Nature in Theory

#3D printed jewelry #3D jewelry #3D art #3D printed #natureintheory #olena shmahalo #portfolio #2023 #wave-particle duality #double slit experiment #particle physics #quantum physics #steampunk #gaslamp fantasy #darkacademia #shapeways #shapeways jewelry #goth jewelry #nerd jewelry #science jewelry #physics jewelry #science illustrator #sff art #scifi art #fantasy art #3D #noai #human artist

[typhlonectes]

The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It

Elegant experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality

One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half century is that the universe is not locally real.

“Real,” meaning that objects have definite properties independent of observation—an apple can be red even when no one is looking; 

“Local” means objects can only be influenced by their surroundings, and that any influence cannot travel faster than light. 

Investigations at the frontiers of quantum physics have found that these things cannot both be true. Instead, the evidence shows objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings and they may also lack definite properties prior to measurement. As Albert Einstein famously bemoaned to a friend, “Do you really believe the moon is not there when you are not looking at it?”

This is, of course, deeply contrary to our everyday experiences. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, the demise of local realism has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Blame for this achievement has now been laid squarely on the shoulders of three physicists: John Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger. They equally split the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” (“Bell inequalities” refers to the pioneering work of the Northern Irish physicist John Stewart Bell, who laid the foundations for this year’s Physics Nobel in the early 1960s.) 

Colleagues agreed that the trio had it coming, deserving this reckoning for overthrowing reality as we know it. “It is fantastic news. It was long overdue,” says Sandu Popescu, a quantum physicist at the University of Bristol. “Without any doubt, the prize is well-deserved...”

Read more:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it

#physics #science #quantum mechanics #quantum theory #entanglement #particle physics #photons #bell inequalities #the real #cosmology #the universe #philosophy #quantum entanglement

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

#science #cartoon #tom gauld #particle physics

[4gravitons]

Book Review: The Case Against Reality

Nima Arkani-Hamed shows up surprisingly rarely in popular science books. A major figure in my former field, Nima is extremely quotable (frequent examples include “spacetime is doomed” and “the universe is not a crappy metal”), but those quotes don’t seem to quite have reached the popular physics mainstream. He’s been interviewed in books by physicists, and has a major role in one popular physics…

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#book review #particle physics #philosophy of science #psychology #quantum field theory #quantum mechanics #relativity #string theory

[mindblowingscience]

Over the years, scientists have managed to unveil the existence of quite a few intriguing particles, pushing the entire field of physics forward with each discovery. There's the "God Particle" for instance, aka the Higgs Boson that grants all other particles their masses. There's also the so-called "Oh My God!" particle, an unimaginably energetic cosmic ray.  But now we have a new particle in town. It's named  the "sun goddess" particle  —  and is fittingly extraordinary.  This particle has an energy level one million times greater than what can be generated in even humanity’s most powerful particle accelerators; it appears to have fallen to Earth in a shower of other, less energetic particles. Like the "Oh My God!" particle, these bits come from faraway regions of space and are known as cosmic rays. The particle has been dubbed "Amaterasu" after Amaterasu Ōmikami, the goddess of the sun and the universe in Japanese mythology, whose name means "shining in heaven." And just as its mythological namesake is shrouded in mystery, so too is the Amaterasu particle. Its discoverers, including Osaka Metropolitan University researcher Toshihiro Fujii, don’t know where the particle came from or indeed what it is. They also still aren't sure what kind of violent and powerful process could have given rise to something as energetic as Amaterasu.

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#Space #Science #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Particle Physics

[forgottenbones]

#up and atom #memes #pingu #particle physics

[noosphe-re]

It has been said since ancient times that the nature of reality is much closer to music than to a machine, and this is confirmed by many discoveries in modern science. The essence of a melody does not lie in its notes; it lies in the relationships between the notes, in the intervals, frequencies, and rhythms. When a string is set vibrating we hear not only a single tone but also its overtones—an entire scale is sounded. Thus each note involves all the others, just as each subatomic particle involves all the others, according to current ideas in particle physics.

Fritjof Capra, foreword to The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness by Joachim-Ernst Berendt

#quote #Fritjof Capra #Capra #Joachim-Ernst Berendt #Berendt #sound #music #consciousness #spirituality #Nada Brahma #Brahman #Vedas #Hinduism #reality #science #physics #particle physics #acoustics

[quantanaut]

Some photos I took of the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider!

#science #science side of tumblr #physics #particle physics