Category: Limits
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Light speed. Less than 1000 m/s.
Researchers at TU Wien were the first to successfully detect Weyl particles in strongly correlated electron systems - that is, materials where the electrons have a strong interaction with each other. In materials like this, the Weyl particles move extremely slowly, despite having no mass. "The strong interactions in such materials usually lead, via the…
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Frankenstein.
The story of Frankenstein is not just a horror story. It is the story of a scientist who converses only with his own conscience. And such a story can never have a happy ending. In the midst of Romanticism, the era when the love for the “logical” and the “scientific” were at their heights, a…
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Light. Right. Left.
How can a beam of light tell the difference between left and right? Tiny particles have now been coupled to a glass fiber. The particles emit light into the fiber in such a way that it does not travel in both directions, as one would expect. Instead, the light can be directed either to the…
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Pills, language tests, state control. Just... f*%$#CK everyone! (materialism included)
Until recently, it's been used exclusively in U.S. government agencies and military schools. But now, a test for how easily a person will become fluent in a foreign language could be made available for civilians. Nautilus - the site where the article appeared - calls the test "one of the first civilian benefits to come…
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