If you’ve ever wondered which part of physics covers which part of space, fret no more. Here is an awesome map that lays it all out.
Two MIT students just solved Richard Feynman’s famed physics puzzle
Here’s a fun experiment to try. Go to your pantry and see if you have a box of spaghetti. If you do, take out a noodle. Grab both ends of it and bend it until it breaks in half. How many pieces did it break into? If you got two large pieces and at least one small piece you’re not alone.
The Physics of Death (and What Happens to Your Energy When You Die)
The Energy In You
Even though it’s an inexorable part of life, for many people, death — or at least the thought of ceasing to exist forever — can be a scary thing. The disturbing things that happen to the body during decomposition — the process by which cells and tissues begin to break down post mortem — are bad enough.
Computação quântica vai mudar todos os paradigmas
Uma computação totalmente nova. É assim que deve ser a computação quântica. O tema tem estado cada vez mais presente e levantado especulações de como isso pode mudar o cenário tecnológico. Mas o que, exatamente, significa o termo quântico?
Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics
Particles spotted by a giant balloon in Antarctica can’t be explained by our current understanding of physics, a thorough analysis has determined. Now the race is on to figure out what they are.
Artificial Intelligence System Learns the Fundamental Laws of Quantum Mechanics
Artificial Intelligence can be used to predict molecular wave functions and the electronic properties of molecules. This innovative AI method developed by a team of researchers at the University of Warwick, the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Luxembourg, could be used to speed-up the design of drug molecules or new materials.
Scientists Used IBM’s Quantum Computer to Reverse Time, Possibly Breaking a Law of Physics
The universe is getting messy. Like a glass shattering to pieces or a single wave crashing onto the shore, the universe’s messiness can only move in one direction – toward more chaos and disorder. But scientists think that, at least for a single electron or the simplest quantum computer, they may be able to turn back time, and restore order to chaos. This doesn’t mean we’ll be visiting with dinosaurs or Napoleon any time soon, but for physicists, the idea that time can run backward at all is still a pretty big deal.
Has physics ever been deterministic?
Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the University of Geneva, have proposed a new interpretation of classical physics without real numbers. This new study challenges the traditional view of classical physics as deterministic.
Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
When quantum mechanics was first developed a century ago as a theory for understanding the atomic-scale world, one of its key concepts was so radical, bold and counter-intuitive that it passed into popular language: the “quantum leap.” Purists might object that the common habit of applying this term to a big change misses the point that jumps between two quantum states are typically tiny, which is precisely why they weren’t noticed sooner. But the real point is that they’re sudden. So sudden, in fact, that many of the pioneers of quantum mechanics assumed they were instantaneous.
