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  • December 23, 2024

    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?


  • July 16, 2024

    A Conversation With Guido Tonelli

    Guido Tonelli is an author and an experimental physicist. His team at CERN was instrumental in the discovery of the Higgs boson.


  • May 22, 2024

    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.


  • March 28, 2024

    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.


  • August 31, 2023

    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?


  • August 22, 2023

    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.


  • July 26, 2023

    BOOM!

    Let’s sacrifice a goat and pray that room temperature superconductivity is actually finally *happening*!


  • July 6, 2023

    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…


  • December 22, 2022

    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.


  • April 21, 2022

    Ise Ise Baby : Coherent Ising Machines and the New Frontier of Non-Von Neumann Computing

    The approach is one of the most promising candidates among “non-Von Neumann” computer architectures.

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