Theory of everything: how a fear of failure is hampering physicists’ quest for the ultimate answer
In trying to solve the ultimate problem, we may have inadvertently created a monster.
May 29, 2024 • ~7 min
In trying to solve the ultimate problem, we may have inadvertently created a monster.
Quantum computing has huge promise from a technical perspective, but the practical benefits are less clear.
Pictures of black holes have a white outline around them when photographed, due to one of black holes’ unique and key features.
The trailer for ‘Oppenheimer’ fails to include female physicists, which is indicative of a broader media trend that, if reversed, could lead to greater gender diversity in science.
Upgrades to the hardware and software of the advanced observatory should allow astrophysicists to detect much fainter gravitational waves than before.
Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.
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