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No Strings Attached : How Modern Physics Came Unmoored
String theory has dominated physics for nearly fifty years — despite its lack of experimental proof.
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Elementary : From Hadron Bootstrapping to the Implicate Order
If there’s nothing fundamental about ‘elementary’ particles, if nature never bottoms out, then what remains to hold on to?
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Love, Math & Witchcraft: How Roasting Psychoanalysis Came Back to Bite Richard Feynman
The further we zoom in on Mother Nature, the clearer it becomes that, at its most fundamental level, science resembles ‘witch-doctoring’ more than anything else.
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Non-Commutative Reading Order : When Books Speak to Each Other Across Time
It’s fascinating how books aren’t mere repositories of information. That the order in which you encounter them actually dictates how your understanding evolves.
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Quarks, Gluons & Jabberwocks : On Aptonyms and Nonce Words
It’s a very human tendency to conflate representations with reality. We are, after all, symbol-processing machines.
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Imperfectly Understanding Quantum Discord
When forced to simplify, some experts explain discord as a measurement of a certain system’s “quantumness”
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Most of All, You Need a Junkyard
It would be smart if we could incentivise up-and-coming players to compete on ideas and execution, rather than on who’s got the bigger machine.
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Things I Didn’t Know About Quantum Entanglement
I’ve gained a valuable insight into how humanity’s collective understanding of this enigmatic field has evolved over time. I feel that goes a long way.
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Trying to Grasp Photonics
What other branch of science can claim to solve teleportation and levitation? Where else to turn for invisibility cloaks and computers which run on light alone?
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BUST! the Productive Failure of LK-99
Ambient pressure room temperature superconductivity didn’t happen. But the LK-99 debacle was kind of inspiring in at least two ways.
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BOOM!
Let’s sacrifice a goat and pray that room temperature superconductivity is actually finally *happening*!
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This Could Change Everything : Superconductivity Heating Up
If we could figure out how to achieve superconductivity at higher temperatures, it would be such a huge deal that the impact is hard to even imagine. This might just be on the brink of happening now…
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Missing Piece of the Fusion Puzzle : Novatron and the Return of Open Field Line Confinement
It’s not trivial to make fusion work, but a real breakthrough is now in the making, and it’s happening at KTH.