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Sniffing out the mystery chemistry of superheavy atoms
Remember the periodic table from your high school classroom? The table orders elements by how the valence electrons in their atoms are arranged. However, quantum physics calculations predict that in elements with atomic number greater than 103, the electrons are … Continue reading
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Tagged berkelium, dubnium, FIONA, flerovium, gas chromatography, gas-filled separator, holmium, livermorium, magnetic rigidity, Periodic Table, physical chemistry, radioactive decay, rutherfordium, special theory of relativity, superheavy elements, valence electrons
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A journey through Twitter and time, with the laws of physics
Say you’re in a dark room and there’s a flash. The light travels outward in all directions from the source, and the illumination seems to expand in a sphere. This is a visualisation of how the information contained in light … Continue reading
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Tagged B0 meson, Big Bang cosmology, CPT symmetry, entropy, hypersurface, light cones, particle physics, special theory of relativity, time, time reversal symmetry, Twitter, weak nuclear force
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All the science in ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’
I watched The Cloverfield Paradox last night, the horror film that Paramount pictures had dumped with Netflix and which was then released by Netflix on February 4. It’s a dumb production: unlike H.R. Giger’s existential, visceral horrors that I so … Continue reading
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Tagged black holes, compactification, high dimensions, Interstellar, Kaluza-Klein theory, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerators, Quantum mechanics, special theory of relativity, Spectral, string theory, The Cloverfield Paradox, wave function, wavefunction
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Special theory of relativity disproved?
It’s impossible to call out all the bullshit claims being made everyday but quite possible and even more relevant to call out those who popularise it without necessary checks. Continue reading
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Tagged EurekAlert, global positioning system, gravitational fields, Physics Essays, special theory of relativity
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Parsing Ajay Sharma v. E = mc2
An Indian scientist’s disputes with Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence betray a misreading of how one of history’s most famous equations came to be. Continue reading
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Tagged Ajay Sharma, Albert Einstein, Cockcroft-Walton experiment, FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction hypothesis, Fritz Hasenhörl, general theory of relativity, Henri Poincare, mass-energy equivalence, mass-energy-momentum equivalence, Ricci tensor, special theory of relativity
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