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Excellent FAQ on the Majorana qubit chip from Microsoft by Scott Aaronson: scottaaronson.blog?p=8669

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The most energetic neutrino ever observed just smashed into the Mediterranean and left a signal that was picked up by the K3Mnet neutrino telescope 2400m under the sea At the moment we don't really know where this neutrino came from, nor should they really be there. A short 🧵1/10

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Ep3 of the "Case for a new collider" series is out! Why is mapping the Higgs potential at a new collider so important? Such a mapping may allow us to understand how the universe may end and why we are even here to ask any questions at all. 🧪⚛️ Link: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Really interesting interview with the incoming Director General cerncourier.com/a/a-word-wit...

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It’s the year 100 AQM www.sciencenews.org/article/quan...

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The US government now instructs CDC scientists to withdraw, halt or remove their names from research papers that are currently in the publication process to screen the language for "forbidden terms" So much for free speech. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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My debate with Luke Barnes on whether the Universe is fine-tuned for life is online. Let me know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Fascinating finding: animo acids, the building blocks of life, have been found on asteroids However on Earth, they're almost all left-handed; on asteroids, left and right-handed variants appear in equal amounts This will help to determine how life developed on earth www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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She isn't wrong: “It is outdated that we have legislative scrutiny carried out by representatives of one Christian denomination. The only other legislature that has religious theocrats as members by right is Iran” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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George RR Martin and the physicist Ian Tregillis published a paper deriving a Lagrangian to model the spread of the wild card virus Goes to show both the power of the variational principle and how creative G.RR.Martin has become in avoiding to write winds of winter pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...

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Feynman: "We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality, it contains the only mystery....

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My colleagues in Durham used optical tweezers to realise long-lived entanglement between pairs of molecules The progress in this field is astonishing phys.org/news/2025-01...

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Quantum field theory predicts that light can scatter off light, an effect beyond classical electrodynamics. Maxwells equations are linear such that two photons never interact with each other 1/3

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European recommendation letter: This is a good candidate I've worked with closely for 3 years. Here is a page with the most notable achievements US recommendation letter: This candidate will 100% win a Nobel prize. We met for 30 min on a conference once and here are 8 pages explaining why

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2025 could be the year we see the first solid state nuclear clock Nuclear clocks keep time 10x better than the best atomic clocks and have the potential to be much more robust We are in the process of witnessing a breakthrough! physicsworld.com/a/solid-stat...

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Nice interview with @astrokatie.com in @cerncourier.bsky.social cerncourier.com/a/exploding-...

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#PhysicsJournalClub "Blending Optimal Control and Biologically Plausible Learning for Noise-Robust Physical Neural Networks" by S. Sunada et. al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 017301 (2025) a 🧵 1/ 🧪🎢

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Physicists have analysed which body shape is ideal for hula hooping. It won't come as a surprise to any father who ever tried to keep up with his kids: "Crucially, the body cross-section must be concave or hourglass shaped and with a sufficiently curvy “waist”"