Astrophysics, cosmology, Bayesian inference, parenthood, politics, rock ’n’ roll, and more. Professor at Imperial College. @[email protected] He/him/his
We've published a letter to DSIT and UKRI about the funding pressures at Science and Technology Facilities Council, which could put some areas of scientific research at risk.
Read it here: https://t.co/dveodmx1VD
You can hear me discuss my new book, The Random Universe, with my colleague Brian Keating on his excellent Into the Impossible podcast. https://t.co/wyOrKluudu
Is the Universe pre-determined or random? In this conversation, @defjaf dives deep into why the universe may be fundamentally, intrinsically random. Plus:
Is inflation on life support?
What's the truth behind the Hubble tension?
Is cosmology is approaching the event horizon, limits beyond which humans can never know?
Is the Universe pre-determined or random? In this conversation, @defjaf dives deep into why the universe may be fundamentally, intrinsically random. Plus:
Is inflation on life support?
What's the truth behind the Hubble tension?
Is cosmology is approaching the event horizon, limits beyond which humans can never know?
@CburgesCliff@WKCosmo I suppose that’s technically true, but I’m not sure it’s a useful way to describe anything which compares a local (more traditionally gauge-invariant) quantity with other quantities chosen on some hypersurface (e.g., overdensities, or anything defined by harmonic transforms).
@AnkerOfficial I am in Japan and would like to purchase a portable wall charger (like the 737 or 747). Which of your chargers feature interchangeable plug adapters? Is this information listed anywhere?
Nobel prize in physics for the development of machine learning techniques. Interesting choice — incredibly consequential (it lies behind large language models like ChatGPT etc), but arguably not “physics”. https://t.co/U0zsPxDtNo
"The Bizarre Shape of the Universe"
Watch this YouTube video about COMPACT (@CompactCollab) and our PRL paper on cosmic topology:
https://t.co/kip75qhuQp
Thanks a lot, Elizabeth Fernandez (@SparkDialog), Jade Tan-Holmes and Tom Groenestyn for creating such an incredible video!
12/ 📚🔬 We chat about Marc's paper with Wang & @defjaf called the Polarization Pursuers Guide. The paper presented the possibility of measuring B-mode polarization of the CMB experimentally, inspiring me to design the experiment called BICEP which led to @BICEPTWO & @BICEP_Keck.
It is extraordinary that the USA gets treated to a dismantling of the Tory party orders of magnitude better than the tame efforts anyone dares attempt here.
(And no, it's not the swearing that makes the difference - it's the accuracy of the attacks.)
Here's your Monday afternoon listen 🎵📻
Professor Andrew Jaffe (@defjaf) from @ImperialPhysics was on @bbc5live to discuss his investigation into the shape of the universe 👇
https://t.co/4yNXbWC8Aj