🚨 Researchers at CERN successfully controlled a single antiproton, the antimatter counterpart of the proton, so that its quantum spin oscillated coherently between two states for almost a minute. CERN described the achievement as the first demonstration of an antimatter quantum bit, or qubit.
In quantum mechanics, a qubit isn’t restricted to simply being in state 0 or state 1. It can exist in a superposition involving both possibilities until measurement forces a definite outcome. Superposition itself has been known and experimentally demonstrated for decades, so CERN did not discover a new particle capable of “being in two states at once.”
What scientists achieved was maintaining coherent control of an antimatter particle’s quantum state for about 50 seconds, long enough to open the door to dramatically more precise measurements of antimatter.
That matters because one of physics’ biggest mysteries is why our universe is overwhelmingly made of matter. According to our best theories, the Big Bang should have produced matter and antimatter in nearly equal quantities. Yet almost everything we see today is matter.
By comparing protons and antiprotons with extraordinary precision, researchers can search for even the slightest difference between them. CERN says the new technique could eventually improve some antiproton measurements by a factor of 10 to 100. Any genuine difference could point toward physics beyond the Standard Model.
So this isn’t evidence that an object can literally occupy two places at once. It’s something more precise: scientists have gained unprecedented quantum control over a single particle of antimatter, giving us a new tool for investigating why our universe exists in the form it does.
🇷🇺👨🔬Científicos rusos han desarrollado un sistema de IA capaz de resolver una de las tareas más complejas de la gestión del transporte público: planificar simultáneamente los horarios, la salida de los vehículos a las rutas y los turnos de los conductores.
🇪🇸⚡️En Ceuta se intensifica la tensión por la presencia de miles de migrantes
Esta jornada, la Policía Nacional detuvo a cuatro ciudadanos marroquíes por atacar a un grupo de militares. En el incidente resultó herido un sargento del Ejército.
🚨 Estamos buscando a este infractor🚨
Este viernes se registró un incendio provocado en una zona residencial de San Cristóbal.
Si reconoces a esta persona, repórtala al 320 819 5846 o al (601) 338 7000.
🔥 Cuidar nuestras montañas es responsabilidad de todos.
Dear Adam,
I will repeat my question. I am asking because, in your essay, you appear to claim that I was treated well by other astronomers on the basis that I was invited to present at one meeting.
The very first action taken against me because of my collaboration with Geoff Marcy came from a conference at Penn State University. Here is the official letter I received in 2021 from Sofia Sheikh, who was leading the conference organization, barring me from presenting the VASCO project because of my coauthorship with Geoff Marcy. It was signed by her and five other organizers, most of them junior researchers.
The letter referred to a very specifically tailored paragraph in the Code of Conduct -- one that appeared to have been created expressly to prevent me from presenting. The abstract I had submitted did not even mention the paper with Geoff.
At the time, Sofia worked for Breakthrough Listen, under the leadership of Pete Worden and Andrew Siemion. Pete, a former U.S. Air Force general who leads the Breakthrough Initiatives, is arguably one of the most influential people in the SETI community. He had assumed leadership after Geoff resigned as head of Breakthrough Listen in 2015, sharing that responsibility with Andrew. When I forwarded the matter to Pete and Andrew, I received no reply.
Since then, there has been a “community effort,” centered around you, Jason Wright, and your shared circle of friends, to ostracize me and excommunicate me from the community. I will not recount all the events again, but instead refer readers to this essay I wrote in 2023:
https://t.co/d7e4ExYXyT
As a result, I even left the SETI mailing list in the autumn of 2023. SETI meeting organizers not only stopped inviting me but also found inventive ways to reject my submissions. For example, when I registered for the Breakthrough Discuss conferences in both 2023 and 2024, and submitted an abstract in 2024, my registrations and abstract were subsequently “lost.” I confronted Pete Worden about this, but that is another story.
Multiple sources have told me about your involvement both in this matter and in my broader excommunication from the community. I would appreciate it if you could clarify what role you played in my exclusion from the Penn State meeting and in the development or application of the Code of Conduct, as well as what communications or agreements took place among you, Jason Wright, Sofia Sheikh, and Pete Worden regarding my exclusion from the community.
I am including Jason Wright’s essay describing his decision in the matter:
https://t.co/Qz8bb3P77E
If we want this to be about “science” and “peer review” only, then the process must be clean.
Finally, let me make my central point: by ignoring and downplaying the arXiv preprints that support the VASCO work, you are deliberately misleading the media and the general public.
I look forward to your clarification.
@AdamFrank4@bigthink@guardian
#Actualidad | Mónica Paola Bonilla Valderrama, funcionaria de la Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales (DIAN), fue imputada por el delito de estafa agravada y enviada a prisión de manera preventiva por un juez de la República. Es señalada de cometer estafas por 300 millones de pesos a través de falsos remates de bienes.
https://t.co/woHMRjVE2M
Cada 28 de agosto, la Iglesia Católica celebra a San Agustín de Hipona (354-430), el célebre obispo de la antigüedad que encaminó la filosofía y la teología por la ruta de la cooperación, de tal manera que quedaron sentada la estructura y el modo de desarrollo de la doctrina cristiana como depositaria de la verdad -aquella que inquieta el corazón del ser humano y que se revela, en última instancia, en el encuentro con lo divino-.
Poseedor de una fineza espiritual y una profundidad intelectual extraordinarias, Agustín de Hipona no solo ha dejado una huella indeleble en la tradición eclesiástica latina, sino que su pensamiento produjo un impacto decisivo en la ciencia y el saber occidentales.
En San Agustín toda alma que anhela alcanzar la verdad encuentra a un amigo seguro y confiable, en el que no hay ambages. Por eso, es el santo patrono de "los que buscan a Dios”, sea porque nunca lo conocieron, sea porque erraron en el camino.
Lee la nota aquí: https://t.co/ISEJi3IwT4
En diligencias de allanamiento y registro adelantadas por el Cuerpo Técnico de Investigación (CTI) en 11 establecimientos de comercio ubicados en el centro de Bogotá, fueron incautadas 8.520 botellas de licor adulterado y 12.840 insumos relacionados con su posible producción y acondicionamiento.
Entre los elementos hallados se encuentran estampillas, tapas, sellos, anillos de seguridad y otros insumos que, de acuerdo con una valoración técnica preliminar, no corresponderían a las características ni a los mecanismos de seguridad de los productos originales.
Nota completa aquí: https://t.co/bwq1VQh4bl
¿Quién creen que tuvo la culpa?
Mientras una mujer caminaba con su hijo por un parque, tuvo que apartar con el pie a un perro que intentó atacarlos. El dueño, lejos de disculparse, reaccionó molesto.
Jun Yang at Harvard University and I have submitted a paper. We examine the original photographic plate material for two famous multiple-transient events from the Palomar Sky Survey: the nine transients of April 12, 1950, and the triple transient of July 19, 1952.
The candidates are present on the photographic material and appear sharp and compact. They look just as they do in the digitized images -- star-like, yet a little sharper and rounder than the other stars in the field, just as one would expect from a sub-second transient in an image with 50 min exposure time. But as there is no clear definition of the shapes and properties of emulsion defects, a hypothetical emulsion defect could take any shape, including a sharper and rounder one. This highlights exactly why microscopy assessment is not going to solve the mystery, and why working with population-level statistics like the Earth’s shadow results is the correct way forward.
A small terminology note: in the paper, “microscopy” is used as an umbrella term for high-magnification inspection of the plate material, encompassing both microscope imaging and 25× magnifier inspection.
Read paper: https://t.co/ilr5tZ7lh8
⚠️ Ceutíes prenden fuego a campamento de migrantes
Las manifestaciones en contra de la presencia de los inmigrantes que entraron a Ceuta de manera masiva e irregular han aumentado en los últimos días.
⛏️🇦🇷 La minera china Ganfeng anuncia un tercer proyecto de litio en Argentina
💰 La empresa cerró una inversión de 180 millones de dólares en Lithium Argentina mediante un título de deuda convertible. El acuerdo contempla la creación de una compañía conjunta enfocada en el desarrollo del activo Pozuelos-Pastos Grandes, ubicado en la provincia de Salta (norte), en la que Ganfeng poseerá el 67% de la participación y asumirá la operación técnica del proyecto.
🔋 El desarrollo prevé una capacidad de producción proyectada de hasta 150 mil toneladas anuales de carbonato de litio equivalente. Se contempla que el plan global se complete a través de tres etapas operativas, requiriendo un desembolso estimado de 3.300 millones de dólares para alcanzar su máxima capacidad operativa.
🤝 Ganfeng, cuyos ejecutivos se reunieron esta semana con el gobernador salteño Gustavo Sáenz para presentarle este plan, ya opera en el yacimiento Cauchari-Olaroz, en la provincia de Jujuy, y posee la titularidad del proyecto Mariana, situado también en Salta, por lo cual esta será su tercera iniciativa en el país sudamericano.
A Colombia no vienen a cometer sus fechorías: en una nueva arremetida contra las estructuras que amenazan la seguridad del continente, cayó en Bogotá alias ‘Luis Páez’, señalado cabecilla transnacional del ‘Tren de Aragua’ y requerido por Estados Unidos.
Este criminal habría llegado al país para coordinar redes criminales y rutas de tráfico de armas, cocaína, ketamina y otros estupefacientes con alcance en Venezuela, Perú, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador y Estados Unidos. También es señalado de participar en homicidios, extorsiones, secuestros, trata de personas y acciones terroristas.
La Patria Milagro no da un paso atrás frente a quienes pretenden sembrar miedo y violencia.