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4 months ago
Peter Higgs believed he would be regarded as “unproductive" in today’s academia. He simply wouldn’t be able to “survive” in science.
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6 months ago
Physics Tattoos
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9 months ago
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How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science
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9 months ago
Curious coincidence between Dimensionality of Space and Spin State
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9 months ago
A detailed explanation of how to do the double slit experiment with single photons, for under $10,000
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9 months ago
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CERN’s Giant New Particle Accelerator: Is It Worth It?
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9 months ago
David Tong drops new lecture notes, on the Standard Model
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9 months ago
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Condensed matter physicists debate whether many-body localization actually exists
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10 months ago
Field theories in the context of classical systems?
Question
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2 months ago
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My homemade DC-Magnetron sputtering system
in District of Columbia
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9 months ago
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Interactive simulations showing how an airfoil works
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9 months ago
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The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams produces five new isotopes in its first year of running
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9 months ago
A simulation of the view from a relativistic spaceship
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9 months ago
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String theorists predict that dark matter results from a "dark dimension"
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9 months ago
Estimating the size of the Sun with dimensional analysis
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9 months ago
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"Velocity Raptor": a platforming game accounting for length contraction, time dilation, and speed of light delay
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9 months ago
PSA: Consider visiting /r/AskScience to ask questions. This subreddit is not moderated for quality or accurate answers.
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11 months ago
Which fields of physics are dying?
Question
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9 months ago
A full course on black holes and quantum information, with video lectures, notes, and problem sets
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9 months ago
David Mermin's "Autobiographical Notes of a Physicist"
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9 months ago
The r/Physics wiki now has a list of commonly asked questions
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9 months ago
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MIT OpenCourseWare uploads Xiao-Gang Wen's course on modern condensed matter theory
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9 months ago
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Unifying Nature’s Laws: The State of String Theory
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1 year ago
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CERN's Large Hadron Collider is looking for dark photons. But... why?
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9 months ago
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A recorded MIT workshop on the influence of ChatGPT on physics research and education