Physics

Welcome back to: Has quantum advantage been achieved? In Part 1 of this mini-series on quantum advantage demonstrations, I told you about the idea of random circuit sampling (RCS) and the experimental implementations thereof. In this post, Part 2 out …

Einstein’s general relativity predicts singularities, such as those found inside black holes. These are places where spacetime ends and the curvature becomes infinitely large. This isn’t just mathematically uncomfortable, it also causes problems when you try to combine gravity with …

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Ski jumping is in the news this Olympic cycle after rumors that male competitors may be cheating in order to wear larger suits. In particular, the suggestion is that male athletes are injecting fillers into their genitals before their pre-season …

Dustin Clausen is giving a course at the IHES starting today on “Weil Anima” (or maybe “Weil-Moore Anima”. They’ve already put up video of the talk here (also available on Youtube). For an earlier talk by Clausen on this material …

AIP’s oral history collection is a rich resource for anyone studying the history of physics. The collection, which started in the 1960s, is comprised of audio recordings detailing physicists’ academic and scientific careers. Most of our oral histories have accompanying …

For the first time, the new scope allowed physicists to observe terahertz “jiggles” in a superconducting fluid. You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light you shine at it: Optical light illuminates a material’s …

📖Read Time: 18 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: tidal, tides, bulge, moon, earth Overview That there is no tidal bulge is the key premise of this article. Upper-level oceanography undergraduates and above know this. Yet the …

My husband and I visited the Library of Congress on the final day of winter break this year. In a corner, we found a facsimile of a hand-drawn map: the world as viewed by sixteenth-century Europeans. North America looked like …

Our universe is a very strange place, but a new dark matter simulation seems to suggest that we live in a particularly strange area in it. According to a new paper published by a group of astrophysicists, simulations seem to …