Tag: physics
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Timeless time: The arrow of time & Why the universe was created when its natural evolution is always towards greater entropy…
In T.H. White’s fantasy novel The Once and Future King, Merlyn the magician suffers from a rare and incurable condition: He experiences time in reverse. He knows what will happen, he laments, but not what has happened. “I have to live backwards from in front, while surrounded by a lot of people living forwards from…
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Choose your reality. Literally. [Quantum mechanics vs. Materialism 1-0]
Reality doesn’t exist until it’s measured, at least for very small things, new research has found. By replicating a famous experiment where an object is given a choice for how to behave, physicists found that the object doesn’t actually make its decision until it is seen. The finding proves one of the central parts of…
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New particles. Yaaawn….
Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland have discovered two never-before-seen subatomic particles, the nuclear research facility announced. (1) Yawn… Go to sleep again. It was nothing. Have already written about that. (search for “particles”, “physics” et cetera)
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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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Light crystals. Matter. Energy. Mind.
Researchers at Princeton University have begun crystallizing light as part of an effort to answer fundamental questions about the physics of matter. The researchers are not shining light through crystal — they are transforming light into crystal. As part of an effort to develop exotic materials such as room-temperature superconductors, the researchers have locked together…
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