Physics

Professor Ore Gottlieb and colleagues at MIT introduce a new theoretical roadmap to identify and track the life cycles of hypothetical “Hawking stars.” We don’t know if the theorized primordial black holes (PBH) are real. If they are, they formed in the …

📖Read Time: 4 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: functionsincfrequencysignalzero Introduction This elaborates some of the claims in my insights article on digital audio. The Sinc Function Upsampling and Zero Insertion The first link in my insights …

One of the most popular ideas in physics right now is something named “ER = EPR.” This theory has it that entangled particles are actually linked by tiny, tiny wormholes. Recently, a group of physicists tested the idea – let’s …

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Artist Thomas Blanchard likes to create wild visuals from a mixture of mundane ingredients like ink, soap, oils, and ferrofluids. In this latest video, he’s mixed chemical reactions and physical phenomena into something reminiscent of a god’s eye staring across …

I’ve been working recently on trying to understand exactly how Wick rotation works in two-dimensional conformal field theory. There is an analog there of some of the issues with Wick rotation of spinors and twistors in four dimensions that I’ve …

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase-contrast, which garnered a Nobel Prize in 1953, brought into clear view structures inside cells that had previously been too faint or washed out for biologists …

As told by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero My Early Youth I was born in 1976 in Valencia (Spain) into a middle-class family. I am the second of four brothers. My parents did not have the opportunity to go to college, as they …

📖Read Time: 7 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: numberszeronumberanalysishyperreal A division by zero is primarily an algebraic question. The reasoning therefore follows the indirect pattern of most algebraic proofs: What if it was allowed? Then we …

The Dutch company ASML is the only company that produces a special type of machine used to produce microchips, which are a key component of many modern technologies. Now, companies across the globe are looking to break ASML’s monopoly using …