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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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Some notes on empiricism, etc.
The Wire published a story about the ‘atoms of Acharya Kanad‘ (background here; tl;dr: Folks at a university in Gujarat claimed an ancient Indian sage had put forth the theory of atoms centuries before John Dalton showed up). The story in … Continue reading
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Tagged Acharya Kanad, aesthetics, Alfred Shapere, dichotomy, empiricism, epistemology, formal science, Frank Wilczek, Hilary Putnam, history, knowledge, naturalness, nature science, Philosophy of Science, rationalism, sense experience, Social Sciences, string theory, time crystals
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