The @LIGO – Virgo – KAGRA Collaboration published today a new catalog of gravitational wave events that adds 161 events to the collection, bringing the total number of gravitational wave signals detected to date to 390 🤯
Prof. Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University, passed away in Beijing due to illness at the age of 103. His life stands as a timeless chapter in human history—one that shines not only for China but for the global community of thinkers and innovators. His legacy will live on forever.
@ThomasVanRiet2 Once upon a time when animals could still speak I was a postdoc at the ITP at Stony Brook. One day, together with a senior physicist we were in the office of John Milnor. He was explaining us something and I shouted: you are using local coordinates and indices! Answer of JM: 1/2