Hawking temperature of black holes measured in fluid analogue

Fluid art by Vera de Gernier. Stephen Hawking sadly passed away earlier this year , but his scientific legacy is well alive. The black h... | Continue reading

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Science has a problem, and we must talk about it

Bad stock photos of my job. A physicist is excited to have found a complicated way of writing the number 2. When Senator Rand Paul last ... | Continue reading

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Roger Penrose still looks for evidence of Universal rebirth

Roger Penrose really should have won a Nobel Prize for something. Though I’m not sure for what. Maybe Penrose-tilings. Or Penrose diagrams... | Continue reading

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Astrophysicists try to falsify multiverse, find they can’t

Ben Carson, trying to make sense of the multiverse. The idea that we live in a multiverse – an infinite collection of universes from whic... | Continue reading

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10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn’t

[Image: Dreamstime.com ] 1. Entropy doesn’t measure disorder, it measures likelihood. Really the idea that entropy measures disorder i... | Continue reading

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Is it possible that there is a universe in every particle?

“Is it possible that our ‘elementary’ particles are actually large scale aggregations of a different set of something much smaller? Then, ... | Continue reading

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10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn’t

[Image: Dreamstime.com ] 1. Entropy doesn’t measure disorder, it measures likelihood. Really the idea that entropy measures disorder i... | Continue reading

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Evidence for modified gravity is now evidence against it

Hamster. Not to scale. Img src: Petopedia . It’s day 12,805 in the war between modified gravity and dark matter. That’s counting the day... | Continue reading

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Sabine Hossenfelder – Science Magazine had my book reviewed, and it’s glorious

Science Magazine had my book “Lost in Math” reviewed by Dr. Djuna Lize Croon, a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Physics at Da... | Continue reading

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New results confirm old anomaly in neutrino data

The collaboration of a neutrino experiment called MiniBooNe just published their new results: Observation of a Significant Excess of Electr... | Continue reading

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