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Is mathematics real?
I didn’t think to think about the realism of mathematics until I got to high school, and encountered quantum mechanics. Mathematics was at first just another subject, before becoming a tool with which to think intelligently about money and, later, … Continue reading
Physicists produce video of time crystal in action 😱
Have you heard of time crystals? A crystal is any object whose atoms are arranged in a fixed pattern in space, with the pattern repeating itself. So what we typically know to be crystals are really space crystals. We didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged BESSY II, Bose-Einstein condensates, energy conservation, Frank Wilczek, Joachim Gräfe, magnons, MAXYMUS, Pauli's exclusion principle, phonons, quasiparticles, space crystals, space time crystals, spin waves, superfluidity, synchrotron light source, thermodynamic ground state, time crystals
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The awesome limits of superconductors
On June 24, a press release from CERN said that scientists and engineers working on upgrading the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had “built and operated … the most powerful electrical transmission line … to date”. The transmission line consisted of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrikosov vortex lattice, Abrikosov vortices, BCS theory, Bose-Einstein condensate, CERN, Cooper pairs, copper, electrical conductivity, electrical resistivity, electrons, flux-flow resistance, Joule heating, Large Hadron Collider, Lisa Randall, magnesium diboride, magnetic flux, Meissner effect, niobium, Pauli's exclusion principle, Praveen Chaddah, protons, silver, superconductors, superfluid helium, titanium, type I superconductors, type II superconductors, vortex pinning
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Physicists could have to wait 66,000 yottayears to see an electron decay
An electron’s lifetime is predicted by prevalent theory that physicists would like to see disproved Continue reading
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Tagged Borexino neutrino experiment, DAΦNE Exotic Atom Research, electrons, Hindu cosmology, Pauli's exclusion principle, Standard Model of particle physics
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Superconductivity: From Feshbach to Fermi
(This post is continued from this one.) After a bit of searching on Wikipedia, I found that the fundamental philosophical underpinnings of superconductivity were to be found in a statistical concept called the Feshbach resonance. If I had to teach … Continue reading
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Tagged 1-2-3 superconductors, absolute zero, BCS theory, Bose-Einstein condensates, Cooper pairs, crystal lattice, Fermi energy, Fermi-Dirac statistics, Feshbach resonance, Meissner effect, Pauli's exclusion principle, phonons, superconductivity
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