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#Physics

hackbyte (friendica)
1 hour ago

Some channels i watch are a bit of a acquired taste. No need to explain further really. But anyways...

AgentJayZ again kills it with a very interesting video for all tech and physics nerds out there.

Can you restart a turbine, turbojet or turbofan (most likely) engine without any auxiliary power besides onboard batteries and maybe a bit of electricity from the Ram Air Turbine which bigger jets use in case of a emergency?

**spoilers start here**

What does that mean? Imagine, you're in a jet somehow. And not only both engines quit, but you're actually unable to start the APU (Auxillary Power Unit, it's own tiny turbine-generator). So you got no real options left but use the windmilling of your turbine to get it up to speeds where you can inject fuel and actually start it.

Tl;dr: This scenario is _EXTREMELY_ unlikely, just on the grounds that usually no engine quits for no reason.. But if you are there.

Well, it's not good ..... but _might_ just be possible.... Most probably killing the engine along the way. (You will necessarily overheat it in the process and shorten it's lifetime massively. ;))

O.k. sorry, enough technobabble.

**spoilers end**

youtu.be/SVumN6qzWCc
redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=…
inv.citw.lgbt/watch?v=SVumN6qz…


If you like to skip the rambling at the beginning and 3 other questions and outright start with the main topic, use these links:

youtube.com/watch?v=SVumN6qzWC…
redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=…

(Starting at minute 8:51 ;))

#AgentJayZ #Youtube #Invidious #Turbine #Engine #EngineOut #TurboJet #TurboFan #Aviation #Physics #Engineering #Emergency #APU #RandomShit ;)

Demonstation of the FODO alternating gradient focussing lattice (for particle beams) using lasers and lenses:
[photo] #physics #accelerators
RT https://twitter.com/MasashiJSHIRAKA/status/1705485669068612039

David August
3 hours ago
- I like them thicc af  - But Sir Newton, we can't write that!  - Then write this: The greater the mass, the greater the force of attraction.   [Porträt des Isaac Newton - Godfrey Kneller 1689]
Alex Barredo 📉
4 hours ago

Fantastic interview about Sabine Hossenfelder

I think the field of somewhat between niche and mainstream realm of physics and maths communicators in YouTube, ought to be more well known!!

https://text.npr.org/1199469798

#physics #maths #math #science #youtube #cosmology #astronomy

she hacked you
4 hours ago

Whats your favorite part of the nuclear triad?

#introduction #physics #nuclear #science #wtf

tomsharp
5 hours ago

In 1814, Joseph von Fraunhofer discovered that each element produces different spectral lines. #Poetry #Science #History #Chemistry #Physics #Spectroscope #Fraunhofer (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1814.html)

Drawing of an early spectrometer, three optical tubes mounted around three sides of a prism.

Theoretical physicist/YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder
She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/23/1199469798/youtube-star-scientist-sabine-hossenfelder

@skdh
Sabine Hossenfelder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder
* Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
* theoretical physicist, mathematician
* German professional YouTuber, theoretical physicist, science communicator, author, musician, singer

Comment: awesome videos 👍️ 🔭

#SabineHossenfelder #STEM #physics #influencers #WomenInScience #ScienceEducation

Marcel Wiessler
5 hours ago

Here is a bit #workflow footage in #unity and #three.
Funcionality is mainly all builtin Needle Engine with #physics, #animation #audio etc + a firstpersoncontroller script from our samples and a little extra script to apply forces to the clicked Rigidbody

I was just in a hurry so it is really not *the* best material 😅 but it was fun and I'm happy with the result given the small time investment

Try live https://lyrical-abrasive-bolt.glitch.me/

#webgl #glitch #gamedev #portal #threejs

Bornach
7 hours ago

Pressure paradox demonstrated by a balloon and a CD
https://youtu.be/iwmUFhomErs
The same flow of air escaping the balloon creates a higher and a lower air pressure

#physics #science #SciComm

Prometheus Warp X :mastodon:
7 hours ago
#TheRealWarpReactor #WarpCore #WarpDrive #Wormhole #TimeTravel #UFO #UAP #Physics #Engineering
#TheRealUAPTicTac #WarpCore #WarpDrive #Wormhole #TimeTravel #UFO #UAP #Physics #Engineering
#TheRealUAPAlien #WarpCore #WarpDrive #Wormhole #TimeTravel #UFO #UAP #Physics #Engineering
#TheRealManBehindCurtain #WarpCore #WarpDrive #Wormhole #TimeTravel #UFO #UAP #Physics #Engineering
Rhett Allain
9 hours ago

Here's what it looks like with 9 internal masses. #physics #python

Rhett Allain
9 hours ago

New #physics video - an EVEN BETTER bouncing ball model in #python. Now with more springs.
https://youtu.be/di8s6yXo_LA

pglpm
9 hours ago

For someone passionate about #physics , #generalrelativity #GR , and #onepunchman #opm , the cover of the last chapter is just fantastic!

Saitama bench-pressing black holes
IT News
19 hours ago

Bending Light to Fit Technology - Solar power is an excellent way of generating electricity, whether that’s for an o... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/22/bending-light-to-fit-technology/ #photovoltaics #electronband #solarenergy #solarpanel #electron #science #physics #energy #photon #color #light

Cockroft-Walton high voltage source for an accelerator
[photo] #physics #accelerators
RT https://twitter.com/ChihiroMacavity/status/1705375918586487262

James Trickle uP
22 hours ago

@dpnash Hi David! I didn't see any obvious bump around the bananas (which make neutrinos, according to #FermiLab 's #EvenBananas #youtube) or kitty litter (sometimes famously radioactive) , but I'll have to check out fertilizer and salt substitute. #science #radioactivity #physics

William Gunn
1 day ago
A log-log plot of objects by mass and radius, from galaxy superclusters to atoms.
KubikPixel™
1 day ago

Is it easy for you to play? I like it, it shows how good your logic is 🧐

»Rush Hour - Online Play«
🚗 https://www.thinkfun.com/rush-hour-online-play/

--
#game #logic #gameforkids #physics #online #onlineplay #cars #game #know

lorddimwit
1 day ago

Lunchtime #Physics question that I thought of last night. I don’t know anything about anything so I don’t even know if this is a meaningful question.

Hawking radiation seems (to me) to convert virtual particles to real radiation. Is that the case and, if so, could that be a source of dark energy?

(Again, I don’t even know if this is a meaningful question and, if it is, I’m sure I’m not the first to ask it.)

MPI for Gravitational Physics
1 day ago

📣 Job alert 📣

Postdoc positions in Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astrophysics at the @mpi_grav in Potsdam.

ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1079838/acr-postdoc-2024

🗓️ apply by November 22, 2023

#postdoc #GravitationalWavePhysics #Astrophysics #physics

Torsten Frank
1 day ago

Good question on one of my latest articles which lead me to a bit math and expand on when tire rolling resistance trumps cda for that specific case:

https://torstenfrank.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/whats-faster-drop-bar-mtb-vs-gravel-bike-its-all-about-the-tires/

#bikenerdery #physics #aero #bike #cycling #knowledgemakesfast
@mastobikes

Atlas Obscura
1 day ago
A number of factors cause you to be lighter or heavier in different parts of the world.#apples #physics #earth #strangemaps #maps #section-Articles
Uneven Gravity Makes You Weigh More in Illinois Than in Indiana
Rhett Allain
1 day ago

Students like to take photos of everything in #physics class. I tell them it's better to DO something wrong than to SEE something right.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxdfuQZO7Zq/

David M. Kelly
1 day ago

Scientists finally detect oxygen-28. Its instability suggests something is wrong with the strong nuclear force #science #physics #STEM https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oxygen-28-instability-surprise-physics

Artist's impression of oxygen-28 with electrons and neutrons represented as red and blue spheres clumped together with several flying off
SciPost Physics
1 day ago

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

On weak ergodicity breaking in mean-field spin glasses

Giampaolo Folena, Francesco Zamponi
SciPost Phys. 15, 109
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.3.109

#DukeUniversity
#LPENS
@ERC

DeFrisselle ☑️
1 day ago

Observational Evidence for Cosmological Coupling of Black Holes and its Implications for an Astrophysical Source of Dark Energy https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acb704 via @AAS_Publishing

#Physics
#Blackhole
#Astrophysics
#DarkMatter
#Gravity

SciPost Physics
1 day ago

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Attenuating dynamics of strongly interacting fermionic superfluids in SYK solvable models

Tian-Gang Zhou, Pengfei Zhang
SciPost Phys. 15, 108 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.3.108

#THU
#FudanUniversity

SciPost Physics
1 day ago

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Unweighting multijet event generation using factorisation-aware neural networks

Timo Janßen, Daniel Maître, Steffen Schumann, Frank Siegert, Henry Truong
SciPost Phys. 15, 107 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.3.107

#GAU
#DurhamUniversity
#TUD
#BMBF
#DFG
#STFC

Ondine B.
1 day ago

July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl Science Rock Band "Les Horribles Cernettes" ("The Horrible CERN Girls" in English)

The group sang love songs about colliders, quarks, liquid nitrogen, microwaves, and antimatter in ’60s-inspired outfits.

(the article contains the songs and funny lyrics, it's not that bad! 😀 )

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/07/18/les-horribles-cernettes/
#CERN #worldwideweb #internet #music #science #geek #physics #collider #womenintech

The first image published in the world wide web, showing the 4 women of the Les Horribles Cernettes band posing for the photo wearing party dresses, and the name of the band written in pink in a light blue background.
Project Gutenberg
2 days ago

Albert Einstein kept a picture of Faraday on his study wall, alongside pictures of Arthur Schopenhauer and James Clerk Maxwell.

Physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, "When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of Faraday, one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time."via @wikipedia

#science #physics

Project Gutenberg
2 days ago

Michael Faraday was born #OTD in 1791. English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. As a chemist, he discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers. via @wikipedia

Michael Faraday at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5541

#books #science #physics

Portrait of Faraday in 1842 by Thomas Phillips.
Drawing of Michael Faraday's 1831 experiment showing electromagnetic induction between coils of wire, using 19th century apparatus, from an 1892 textbook on electricity. On the right is a liquid battery that provides a current that flows through the small coil of wire (A) creating a magnetic field. When the small coil is stationary, no current is induced. However, when the small coil is moved in or out of the large coil (B), the change in magnetic flux induces a current in the large coil. This is detected by the deflection of the needle in the galvanometer instrument (G) on the left.
C.
2 days ago

For those who missed it, Paul Fenwick @pjf has solved the "USB paradox", where you have to try to insert a USB-A plug three times, flipping it over twice, before you succeed in inserting it into the port.

His genius, and obviously correct, explanation is that USB-A plugs have spin 1/2. Consult your local particle physicist for details if interested.

#half #spin #particle #physics #USB #paradox #plug #port

Pratik Patel
2 days ago

Additional model possibilities are interesting here.

A look at Poisson flow #generative models, a physics-inspired alternative to diffusion-based AI models that can create same quality images 10 to 20 times faster.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-physics-inspired-generative-ai-exceeds-expectations-20230919/

#AI #Physics #GenerativeAI

It is important to ensure that patients receive proper neutrinos during in the treatment course.

I just had a momentarily baffling first encounter with an obvious spellchecker mishap: nutrition —> neutrino 🤯

#editing #Physics #medicine

MPI for Gravitational Physics
4 days ago

📣 Job alert 📣

Postdoc position: novel interferometric sensing techniques and seismic noise mitigation in a torsion balance at the @mpi_grav in Hannover.

ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1077202/postdoc-position-novel-interferometric-sensing-techniques-and-seismic-noise-mitigation-in-a-torsion-balance

🗓️ apply by September 30, 2023

#postdoc #LaserInterferometry #TorsionBalance #physics

Corey S Powell
4 days ago

Coronal mass ejections can damage satellites, disrupt communication, and even knock out power grids on Earth.
The Parker Solar Probe captured imagery of the September 5, 2022 solar storm sweeping up space dust as it went. #science #tech #physics https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/

Parker Solar Probe’s Wide Field Imagery for Solar Probe (WISPR) camera observes as the spacecraft passes through a massive coronal mass ejection on Sept. 5, 2022. Coronal mass ejections are immense eruptions of plasma and energy from the Sun’s corona that drive space weather.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab
Project Gutenberg
4 days ago

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis died #OTD in 1843.

He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. He was the first to apply the term travail (translated as "work") for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor ½ to Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy. via @wikipedia

#science #physics

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis,
gravure de Zéphyrin Belliard d'après le tableau de Roller (1812-1866) .

Now that is interesting..

Groundbreaking research shows that the limits of nuclear stability change in stellar environments where temperatures reach billions of degrees Celsius https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230918105125.htm

#science #tech #physics #eatitdarkmatter

Frozen Canuck
5 days ago

Upgraded Stanford Linear Accelerator requires coldest temperatures in universe to function

Very cool — literally! 😆

https://youtu.be/FCgyaWOnraw

#Science #Physics #Stanford #BayArea

Motherboard
5 days ago
RememberUsAlways
5 days ago

"We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For The Past 300 Years"

F=MA, Newtons's second law, should be Newtons's first law IMHO.

The 2nd law of force governs ALL movement.

Even time.

#physics
#force
#mass
#acceleration
#time

https://www.sciencealert.com/weve-been-misreading-a-major-law-of-physics-for-the-past-300-years

F=MA, Newtons's second law, should be Newtons's first law
Project Gutenberg
5 days ago

Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau died #OTD in 1896.

In 1849, Fizeau calculated a value for the speed of light to a better precision than the previous value determined by Ole Rømer in 1676. In 1850 he measured the relative speeds of light in air and water, using a rotating mirror, however Foucault independently achieved the same result seven weeks earlier.

Fizeau was involved in the discovery of the Doppler effect, which is known in French as the Doppler–Fizeau effect.

#books #science #physics

Hippolyte Fizeau in 1883 by Eugène Pirou.
Title page of On the effect of the motion of a body upon the velocity with which it is traversed by light by Hippolyte Fizeau which is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70863
Barry Schwartz 🫖
6 days ago

I have animated a two-channel ‘CHSH’ Bell test experiment, as a #Python program. It is on #PyPI at https://pypi.org/project/Quantum-Correlations-Visualized/

If you read the source code, it will give an explanation of how the #simulation works. I STRONGLY encourage close study of the source code, for the reader to see that it is legitimate.

#Quantum #Physics #QuantumComputing #Mathematics

"Liquid can levitate and boats can float upside down in this gravity-defying physics experiment." https://youtu.be/bodsuTucSxQ #Youtube #Video #Videos #Science #Physics #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Weird #Buoyancy #Gravity @science

Ele Willoughby, PhD
6 days ago

For #SciArtSeptember day 17: abstract, my cubist inspired portrait of mathematician Henri Poincaré. This print is about how art movements in art can be connected with contemporary math and physics (and other sciences). Specifically, the way Cubism breaks from a single favoured perspective or absolute frame of reference & attempts to break down subjects into

🧵1/n

#cubism #linocut #printmaking #mathematics #physics #histstm #geometry #HenriPoincaré #mathematician #sciArt #abstract #MastoArt

Cubism inspired linocut portrait of Henri Poincaré. The background is grey with brown, white and orange and lines and curves in dark blue. He wears a suit with bow tie in dark blue, has a beard and monocle and everything is broken into shapes and planes and his face in particular looks like it’s viewed from multiple perspectives simultaneously
Spencer Wolfe
1 week ago

A new #introduction

My name is Spencer and I decided to join Mastodon because I like the idea behind the #fediverse and a more decentralized system. I also think the alternatives are becoming crappier by the day ...

What social media I've done involves my #hobbies of #gardening and building a #scalemodel when I have time.

My other interests are #reading #sciencefiction and #electronics

I have a background in #Science ( #Physics ) as well.

I hope to make some new connections here! 🙂 🖖

Ele Willoughby, PhD
1 week ago

Born in Munich, she survived Nazi internment. After her PhD in #physics from TU (Berlin, ‘48) she immigrated to Canada, did a post-doc & joined faculty at U of T. She pioneered archeometry (use of modern materials analysis in archeology) dating metal & ceramic artifacts. The ancient Chinese Ding vessel represents both her metallurgical research & archeometry & her writing about "prescriptive" versus "holistic" tech used in mass production versus tech used by craft workers & artisans. ⁠
⁠🧵2/n

Barry Schwartz 🫖
1 week ago

If anyone wants a preview of my #quantum #physics #animated #simulation that actually has no quantum physics in it at all, try

curl https://crudfactory.com/quantum_correlations_visualized.py | python3 - pi/8

You can try other angles. pi/8 and 3pi/8 give maximum magnitude of the correlation coefficient (sqrt(2)).

#QuantumComputing

This is perfectly serious stuff. The theorists have left out some necessary details of random process analysis they do not know are necessary, involving joint pdf and so forth.

Oden
1 week ago
Project Gutenberg
1 week ago

#OTD in 1822. French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence. via @wikipedia

#science #physics #optics

Two rays with perpendicular polarization passing through a positively birefringent material.

In this example, optic axis along the surface is shown perpendicular to plane of incidence. Incoming light in the s polarization (which means perpendicular to plane of incidence - and so in this example becomes "parallel polarisation" to optic axis, thus is called extraordinary ray) sees a greater refractive index than light in the p polarization (which becomes ordinary ray because "perpendicular polarisation" to optic axis) and so s polarization ray is undergoing greater refraction on entering and exiting the crystal.
Doro
1 week ago

We've been searching for a violation of the universality of free fall for so long - apparently #Google knows more than we do! #Physics #EquivalencePrinciple

https://tech.lgbt/@chrisisgr8/111072335532042965
@chrisisgr8

Barry Schwartz 🫖
1 week ago

Derivation of the correlation coefficient for a two channel Bell-test #experiment:
https://crudfactory.com/eprb_signal_correlations.pdf

#Simulation employing only action by contact (no ‘#entanglement’):
https://github.com/chemoelectric/eprb_signal_correlations

The derivation is done with #probability theory, employing no #quantum #physics whatsoever. It is shown that Bell, Clauser, et al., compute correlation coefficients incorrectly.

An animation is on PyPI. See another pinned toot.

(What #QuantumComputing really ‘is’ is a subject for future research.)

Ed Wiebe
1 week ago

The 2023 Ig Nobel Prize in #Chemistry #Geology was awarded to Jan Zalasiewicz, "for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks".

The #Physics prize went to Bieito Fernández Castro et al for "measuring the extent to which ocean-water mixing is affected by the sexual activity of anchovies".

https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2023

Fredkin gate - Wikipedia

"useful property that the numbers of 0s and 1s are conserved throughout, which in the billiard ball model means the same number of balls are output as input. This corresponds nicely to the conservation of mass in physics, and helps to show that the model is not wasteful"
#physics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_gate#:~:text=useful%20property%20that%20the%20numbers%20of%200s%20and%201s%20are%20conserved%20throughout%2C%20which%20in%20the%20billiard%20ball%20model%20means%20the%20same%20number%20of%20balls%20are%20output%20as%20input.%20This%20corresponds%20nicely%20to%20the%20conservation%20of%20mass%20in%20physics%2C%20and%20helps%20to%20show%20that%20the%20model%20is%20not%20wasteful

MPI for Gravitational Physics
1 week ago

📣 Job alert 📣

Postdoc position: novel interferometric sensing techniques and seismic noise mitigation in a torsion balance at the @mpi_grav in Hannover.

ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1077202/postdoc-position-novel-interferometric-sensing-techniques-and-seismic-noise-mitigation-in-a-torsion-balance

🗓️ apply by September 30, 2023

#postdoc #LaserInterferometry #TorsionBalance #physics

Oceans Craig
1 week ago

@arstechnica funny what people pick up on - the #physics one is my field and it is interesting stuff but nothing out there unlike some of the other studies... lesson learned, replace "spawning" with "sex" in the headline #ButNotAsWeKnowItJim

Penguinflight
1 week ago
Olena
1 week ago

via Fermilab – Illustration by Olena Shmahalo for NANOGrav - that's me! ✨


#MastoArt #art #3D #3Dart #sciart #scienceillustration #science #physics #astrophysics

Tweet by @Fermilab, text: "In June, researchers from @NANOGrav, published evidence for a constant, universe-wide hum of gravitational waves. To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB." #illustration #art of a petri dish with galaxies inside, showing their evolution over time: from the smallest clumps in the center to spread-out spiral, elliptical, and AGN types at the outer edges. #3D #3Dart #sciart #scienceillustration #sciartseptember #science #fermilab #physics #astrophysics
David Meyer
1 week ago

Nice infographic from Compound Interest.

If you want a deeper dive into the history of all of this I recommend "Kathy Loves Physics & History" (https://www.youtube.com/@KathyLovesPhysics); her videos are really quite informative.

#physics #historyofscience

Nice infographic from Compound Interest.

If you want a deeper dive into the history of all of this I recommend "Kathy Loves Physics & History" (https://www.youtube.com/@KathyLovesPhysics); her videos are really quite informative.

#physics #historyofscience
John Carlos Baez
2 weeks ago

@j_bertolotti - great animation!

In the usual internet tradition, I will make a nitpicky comment. You wrote

"In the #Physics jargon, a "toy model" is a very simple (often unrealistic) model, which nevertheless capture the essence of the problem..."

but I'd be more modest, like this:

"In the #Physics jargon, a "toy model" is a very simple (often unrealistic) model, which we hope nevertheless captures some essential features of the problem."

It hardly ever captures *all* the essential features, but we hope it captures some - and even if it doesn't, it's still useful, because it's a step toward learning what the essential features are!

Project Gutenberg
2 weeks ago

"That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following."

Irène Joliot-Curie was born #OTD in 1897.

Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. They are the only mother & daughter pair to win Nobel Prizes. via @wikipedia

#science #physics

Irène and her mother and sister Ève Curie.

In 1921, an American journalist Mary Meloney (1878-1843), an admirer of the scientist, organized a fund-raising campaign among women's associations in the United States. The aim was to give Marie Curie a gram of radium, worth $100,000 at the time (around €1,200,000 today). Accompanied by her daughters, she travelled to the United States, where she was triumphantly welcomed in May-June 1921. For six weeks, she toured the eastern United States. U.S. President Warren G. Harding personally presented her with an honorary key during an official ceremony at the White House on May 20. The key opens a box containing one gram of radium.
via @wikipedia
Eric McCorkle
2 weeks ago

Eventually-relevant musing, since I'm now formally studying #physics: at roughly what point in their studies can a person consider themselves a legitimate physicist?

I'm in no rush to do so, I'm more curious what the social conventions are.

#science

Barry Schwartz 🫖
2 weeks ago

It's a funny thing, but the actual #mathematics of a Bell test, which I am writing in a paper now (for direct distribution, not publication in the failed journal system), is quite beautiful.

It is a pair of wheels that, when they turn in unison, produce a wave-like effect in the detectors. (One has to imagine PBS that can do a whole 360.) With INVARIANT correlation coefficient.

Yet those incompetent #quantum #physics dunderheads cannot see it, because they are uneducated cultists.

Barry Schwartz 🫖
2 weeks ago

My solution to this Bell test fiasco is quite correct. Any errors are trivial details. The whole thing is really quite a simple and actual rather lovely random process. My IEEE technote-style paper is coming along nicely and shows (w/o QM) that the correlations are invariant under in-unison rotations of the PBS/magnets/etc.

But it has nothing to do with the utter fantasy called "#entanglement", and #quantum #physics is revealed to be the work of dunderpated jackalopes such as Bell and CHSH.

John Christensen
2 weeks ago

#introduction
Hello all! I'm John, and I love learning, and building open software that makes the world a better place.

I have a physics background, but my interests have meandered through (too) many areas.

Topics I love to learn or chat about:
#rust
#python
#opensource
#procgen
#dataviz
#physics
#electronics

Interested in contributing to areas like #education and global #inequality

If you're into any of the above topics and are interested in collaborating on projects, I'm all ears!

I hate to break it to you #physics nerds, but literally everything is unknown until it's observed.

#schrodinger #SchrödingersCat #schrodingerscat #quantum #quantumPhysics #science

Marty
2 weeks ago

This liquid simulation took like two and a half hours to resolve, but I really like how it turned out.

#blender #blender3d #b3d #physics #liquid #simulation #render #cycles

An animation of a glass cube filled with an orange liquid bouncing down marble stairs. The cube hits a corner in the middle of the fall and the video slows down briefly as it spins through the air, liquid sloshing inside.
Barry Schwartz 🫖
2 weeks ago

#Quantum #physics works just fine but it is not really a theory. It is, as Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correctly demonstrated, a set of empirical laws.

Bohr argued, essentially, that a set of empirical laws is all one should ever want, and the quantum physics community has set out since to prove that a theory is actually impossible.

And they have succeeded! But only by being the people in the sciences most ignorant of logic and principles of plausible inference.

Barry Schwartz 🫖
2 weeks ago

The ‘#QUANTUM #PHYSICS CONFIRMED AGAIN’ experiments are falsified, even though the correlations are actually there.

The correlations have nothing whatsoever to do with magical ‘entanglement’, but quantum physicists are too cult-indoctrinated and too uneducated in mathematics to realize this.

Their broken pseudo-mathematics is incapable of detecting the correlations in their data, and so they have to cheat (with rationalizations, of course) to get positive results.

Ele Willoughby, PhD
2 weeks ago

For #SciArtSeptember Day 7: indigo a little story of analogy & bias in the most famous physicist of all. My lino block print is inspired by the earliest colour wheel, made by Isaac Newton. When he first split white light in 1665 into the rainbow spectrum of colours, he named & described what he saw as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (often denoted ROY G BIV).

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#sciArt #histstm #linocut #printmaking #colour #music #spectrum #Newton #physics #light #MastoArt

Newton’s colour wheel: he displayed the colours Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet on a circle, and labelled the spokes of the cycle like the notes of a scale, the Dorian mode starting with D with no sharps or flats. He added orange and indigo where half steps occur (between E and F and B and C respectively). He labelled them in Latin: Rubeus, Aureus, Flavus, Viridous, Caeruleus, Indicus and Violaceus. I have added a musical stave and notes in a ring around the circle.