FQxI Physics

Exploring the foundations of physics & cosmology with Zeeya Merali & Gabe Fitzpatrick, of the Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI.

[FQxI Physics @FQXi]

In the first of a series of short documentaries from FQxI, Professor Natalia Ares shows us her research at Oxford University that uses carbon nanotube machines to investigate how we can use information as a fuel.⁠ @NAresgroup @geoffreylondon
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https://t.co/EtHFBWR0Oj
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#FQxI

[FQxI Physics @FQXi]

Penrose's full talk with Dr Zina Cinker: https://t.co/vyYTapl758

[FQxI Physics @FQXi]

Sir Roger Penrose, are bees conscious?

[NicoleYunger Halpern @nicoleyh11]

Scientist, polymath, Lancastrian. William Whewell has been a hero of mine for a few years...and now I've met him! @Trinity College, Cambridge.

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

Writing about math for a wide audience is tricky. Here are some pitfalls we fell into, and lessons we learned along the way. https://t.co/wpLFOhjuwh

[Lee Billings @LeeBillings]

I don't usually plug podcasts, but this is an exception. Two great science journalists, @gmusser & @coreyspowell, have started a new one exploring the depths of The Fermi Paradox. The first episode with @AdamFrank4 is a banger—and the others will be, too!

https://t.co/PnWyui0Vw7

[Antonio Anna Mele @QuAntonioMele]

Happy to announce our paper published today in Nature Physics!

While quantum state tomography was already well understood, the analogous problem for quantum channels was largely open. In this work, we give the first optimal algorithm for learning quantum channels! ⚛️

[Imperial Physics @ImperialPhysics]

🚨 We're hiring: Digital Content Officer
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[Elisabeth Kendall @Dr_E_Kendall]

The search is on. Could you be our next Senior Tutor at @GirtonCollege @Cambridge_Uni? We can promise talented students, world-class Fellows, strong collegiality, high energy, proud traditions, low stuffiness, and lots of fun! Salary c. £84,591 to £95,187. Read on via this link: https://t.co/P3IGuDjqlR

[FQxI Physics @FQXi]

https://t.co/PwkIUmJkSB

[FQxI Physics @FQXi]

David Sloan retells the thought experiment behind Einstein’s relativity.

[Big Think @bigthink]

Physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies argues that the deepest mystery of life’s origin is how chemistry came to write its own code:

[Lee Billings @LeeBillings]

Now on @sciam: The “shepherds” have spoken. Physicists tasked with validating and releasing OpenAI’s latest major AI-generated math proof on Yang-Mills theory have declared it to be genuine. But even they still don’t fully understand the result.

https://t.co/MvsZUhaCbS

[Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @KITP_UCSB]

Statement #3 of Yang-Mills Group, scientific collaboration shepherding AI result on existence of quantum chromodynamics & completions of the Standard Model, including subproblem proving the existence of the Quantum Yang-Mills theory. https://t.co/j8O8TUjSD3

[CERNpress @CERNpress]

[Press Update]: Construction begins on massive underground neutrino experiment designed to unlock the secrets of the Universe

Find out more: https://t.co/dT0HfDEDVM

[American Institute of Physics @AIP_HQ]

Many assume a physics degree leads only to academia. Nicole Everage's SPS internship "opened my eyes to a lot of other different paths I could possibly take."

Help students see where physics can lead.

Donate. ▶️ https://t.co/Le1lq49bWE

[FQxI Physics @FQXi]

This clip is from David Sloan's talk at @XPANSEWORLD. Watch Dave's full talk: https://t.co/PwkIUmJkSB

[FQxI Physics @FQXi]

The fact that it gets dark at night is one of the simplest pieces of evidence that the universe hasn't existed forever.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

A type of turbulence that only exists in the quantum realm has been directly observed for the first time.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

“You have to watch out for your sanity in a field like quantum foundations,” said Lucien Hardy, a physicist at the Perimeter Institute. https://t.co/N0F9C6x1NM

[Prof. Brian Keating @Briankeating]

"PhySIcS haS stTAgNated for 50 yEars!" — said people who missed CERN finally catching a beauty-quark-to-two-muons decay that happens once in ten billion tries.

42-year hunt complete. Standard Model still undefeated (for now).

The precision era is very much alive; cope accordingly.

https://t.co/AqjvWTaBf2