Tag: physics
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Proton. Mass. Higgs. Phantoms of science.
A proton’s mass is more just than the sum of its parts. And now scientists know just what accounts for the subatomic particle’s heft. Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is…
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Nanomaterials. AI. Prediction.
Breakthroughs in the field of nanophotonics - how light behaves on the nanometer scale - have paved the way for the invention of "metamaterials," human-made materials that have enormous applications, from remote nanoscale sensing to energy harvesting and medical diagnostics. But their impact on daily life has been hindered by a complicated manufacturing process with…
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Philosophical dogmatism inhibiting the anti-Copernican interpretation of the Michelson Morley experiment
Author: Spyridon Kakos, phD, National Technical University of Athens Goal of the paper The goal of this paper is to investigate scientific assumptions and dogmas related to the mainstream interpretation of the Michelson Morley experiment. The current interpretation denies the possibility of a motionless Earth or the existence of ether, in the context of relativity…
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String theory. Incompatibilities. Scientific progress.
In string theory, a paradigm shift could be imminent. In June 2018, a team of string theorists from Harvard and Caltech published a conjecture which sounded revolutionary: String theory is said to be fundamentally incompatible with our current understanding of "dark energy" -- but only with "dark energy" can we explain the accelerated expansion of…
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Extra dimensions. Existence. Cosmos.
This could be the way the world ends. First, a pair of cosmic protons smash together at unimaginable speeds. The tremendous energy of their crash would create a tiny, ephemeral black hole, so small that it would last just a fraction of a second before evaporating. Where the black hole just was, a bubble of…
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