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When I was a freelance BBC presenter I was told I should not criticise the Royal Society when I wrote in support of Professor Dorothy Bishop’s resignation. I’m not now , so I can say that I think the society’s position on Elon Musk is troubling and wrong. Also, I’m not sure how many other fellows are there primarily because they are businessmen rather than scientists. #elonmusk #science #space #physics
#science #space #physics #elonmusk

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"The moment of discovery" does not always exist: the scientist's work is too tenuous, too divided, for the certainty of success to crackle out suddenly in the midst of his laborious toil like a stroke of lightening, dazzling him by its fire.

In: Eve Curie - Madame Curie - Chapter XII (p. 158)

~Marie Curie #BOTD in 1867.

#physics #radioactivity #womeninStem

#physics #WomenInSTEM #botd #radioactivity

#physics #nobelprize #OurModernTimes #QuantumMechanics

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At an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, physicists were polled on their view of quantum theory.

Their wildly divergent answers illustrate the difference between observation and interpretation.

nature.com/articles/d41586-025… #science #nature #physics #philosophy

Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows

First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.
Gibney, Elizabeth
#nature #science #philosophy #physics

#physics #astrophysics

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Children at home becoming fascinated by Rayleigh Taylor instabilities. Who wouldn't be?
#physics #science
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New Math Suggests 'Impossible' Third Type of Particle Could Exist


Quantum mechanics has long classified particles into just two distinct types: fermions and bosons.
Now physicists from Rice University in the US have found a third type might be possible after all, at least mathematically speaking. Known as a paraparticles, their behavior could imply the existence of elementary particles nobody has ever considered.


Physics Finds A Way

#News #Physics #ParticlePhysics #QuantumMechanics

New Math Suggests 'Impossible' Third Type of Particle Could Exist : ScienceAlert

Mike McRae (ScienceAlert)
#News #physics #particlephysics #QuantumMechanics

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Portable turbulent device to keep Kolmogorov with you everywhere!
(credits to the creator below 👇)
#physics #astrodon #astronomy #turbulence
#physics #astronomy #Astrodon #turbulence

Wonderful! I love the runner-up, 'The Scholar's Dream', on browntail moths, to the music of Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre: youtube.com/watch?v=SFwRMZKODb…

Overview & other category winners here: science.org/content/article/ka…

#DanceYourPhD #moth #kangaroo #epigenetics #circadian #dance #zoology #science #SciComm #SocialScience #biology #chemistry #physics

The Scholar's Dream- Dance Your PhD 2024 [𝓡𝓾𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓻-𝓤𝓹]

[2/27/2024: I had a sudden jump in views- turns out my video was a runner-up for Science's Dance your PhD and "might have won the whole thing if not up again...
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#science #chemistry #physics #biology #scicomm #Kangaroo #epigenetics #zoology #circadian #dance #danceyourphd #moth #socialscience

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My 1st cover story! For New Scientist about experiments that are close to telling us if spacetime is quantized. And a Q&A with a physicist who is simulating space-time from scratch!

newscientist.com/article/mg260…

newscientist.com/article/23992…

#physics #science #astronomy

The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

Monika Schleier-Smith is testing the idea that space-time emerges, like a hologram, from quantum interactions by attempting to make it in the lab
Lyndie Chiou (New Scientist)
#science #physics #astronomy

#physics #astronomy #hpc #ecr

#Research #physics #Data #cern #CMSExperiment #particlephysics

#science #physics #cycling #bikes #BikeTooter #Bicycle

beautiful picture! This makes it very clear that the inner disk seems brighter… is this #physics or a #visual #illusion ?
#physics #visual #illusion

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This is a picture of the first moments of a nuclear explosion taken in 1952. The blast radius at this moment is less than 20 meters wide.

There are so many extraordinary things about this photo. First off the fact that they had a camera in the 1950's capable of such insanely high speed frame rates (they created a movie from this) that it was capable of 1,000,000 frames per second. In many ways that is more impressive than the nuclear bomb itself.

Second the fact that you can see, in real time, a nuclear explosion as it happens. Those spikes at the bottom are called the "rope trick effect" which is caused by the support cables inside or holding up the bomb. The light radiation is so intense it vaporizes anything nearby causing things to explode just from the intensity of the light itself (before radiation has any effect at all). So those spikes are literally just the support cables exploding in the extraordinarily bright light from the bomb.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science

#science #stem #history #physics @Science Talk Group

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