Photographer Jan Erik Waider is a master of capturing incredible landscape imagery. In these videos, he uses a drone to film waves in the Baltic Sea gently undulating polygonal slabs of ice on the ocean surface. The interplay of light, …
A couple weeks ago I gave at talk in Marseille on the general topic of Wick Rotating Spinors and Twistors. I’ll make a few comments here on the content of the slides. The idea of the talk was to explain …
Part 1 of a 2-part series on South Asian scientists for the April Photos of the Month I began research for this post with a sense that most American media which celebrate Asian and Asian American history, such as AAPI …
Former Pappalardo Fellow Benjamin R. Safdi Also Recognized for Separate Research Achievement CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize, honoring three researchers with significant ties to the MIT …
📖Read Time: 5 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: cat, quantum, state, box, measurement The concept of quantum superposition (or superposition for short) is very counterintuitive, as Schr##\ddot{\text{o}}##dinger noted in 1935 writing [1], “One can even set …
As experimental capabilities advance rapidly, the quantum computing community faces a critical elephant in the room: What will these quantum machines eventually be useful for? Will they deliver the promised broad societal impact, or will they remain highly specialized devices …
Mathematical functions are built from operations, which are used to perform the calculations that make science and technology run. But what if we could do away with multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division? That’s what one mathematician has done in a …
Quiz of the week: how many galaxies and quasars are in the biggest high-res 3D map of our universe? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2026 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual …
Photographer Chris Perani is fascinated by the microstructures of insect wings, which he captures in “extreme macro” through focus stacking–letting us see wings in glorious micron-scale detail. In addition to giving insects their brilliant colors and irridescence, these structures serve …
In this post I’ll discuss Weyl spinor fields and explain why Wick-rotating a single Weyl spinor field appears to be impossible. This motivates a proposal for a different way of thinking about the relation between spinors and vectors, described by …