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DrCaleb @ Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:46 am

Large Hadron Collider restarts after three-year break

   



DrCaleb @ Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:24 am

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A New Theory Argues Time May Not Exist At All — but That’s Not a Bad Thing

As we speak, there’s a crisis playing out in physics. Does time exist? And if not, how do we explain our universe? It’s an absurd notion to question the very fabric of our reality; the clock, the calendar, the humdrum of our lives has left time in tiny fragments. These fragments make us, and we have come to be at peace with that.

The proposition is this: we need a radical perspective of what it means to exist. Take this thought experiment: do chairs and tables exist? Yes, even though no theory in physics would validate their existence. They exist because they “emerge from an underlying physics of particles whizzing around the universe.” Time, on the other hand, may emerge out of nothing fundamental in the universe. We are still unclear about how time emerged, so how can we assume it exists?

In other words: time may not exist as a critical component of the laws of physics; but it could still exist in our world as a social construct.



https://theswaddle.com/a-new-theory-arg ... bad-thing/

   



DrCaleb @ Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:16 am

After 3 years offline, the Large Hadron Collider immediately sets a world record

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The LHC broke its first record (and became the world's most powerful particle accelerator) in 2009, just after it began operation. The beam of protons was accelerated to an energy of just over 1 TeV, beating out Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator near Chicago, Illinois.

"Then one year later, we pushed to 3.5 TeV," Wenninger says. After setting yet another record, LHC was shut down for maintenance and to consolidate some of the magnets that control the proton beams. "This allowed us in 2015 to reach 6.5 TeV, again a new world record," he says. That satisfied the particle physicists who rely on LHC data for three years. During the second long shutdown, which has just ended, researchers and technicians "did further consolidation of the safety system of the magnet." Those tweaks enabled today's new record and brought the team "very close to the designed energy of the LHC, which is 7 TeV," he says.

   



bootlegga @ Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:58 am

Two Giant Blobs Lurk Deep Inside Earth, And It Looks Like They're Shape-Shifters

   



raydan @ Thu Apr 28, 2022 12:33 pm

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Two Giant Blobs Lurk Deep Inside Earth, And It Looks Like They're Shape-Shifters

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DrCaleb @ Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:24 am





UCSB and Disney Find Out How High a Robot Can Possibly Jump

This highly optimized jumping robot launches a staggering 30 meters into the air

   



Scape @ Tue May 03, 2022 4:53 pm



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OPg-ks ... WL&index=4

   



DrCaleb @ Wed May 04, 2022 11:59 am

Most Vegetarian Children Are Just As Well Nourished As Meat Eaters

Children With Vegetarian Diet Have Similar Growth and Nutrition Compared to Meat-Eating Peers

   



DrCaleb @ Thu May 12, 2022 6:27 am

Unusual quantum state of matter observed for the first time

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It's not every day that someone comes across a new state of matter in quantum physics, the scientific field devoted to describing the behavior of atomic and subatomic particles in order to elucidate their properties.

Yet this is exactly what an international team of researchers that includes Andrea Bianchi, University of Montreal physics professor and researcher at the Regroupement québécois sur les matériaux de pointe, and his students Avner Fitterman and Jérémi Dudemaine has done.

In a recent article published in the scientific journal Physical Review X, the researchers document a "quantum spin liquid ground state" in a magnetic material created in Bianchi's lab: Ce2Zr2O7, a compound composed of cerium, zirconium and oxygen.

   



DrCaleb @ Thu May 26, 2022 8:15 am

Why are male mice afraid of bananas?

   



bootlegga @ Thu May 26, 2022 1:10 pm

Elon Musk’s proposed Hyperloop is all smoke and mirrors

   



DrCaleb @ Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:27 am

Discovery of new mechanisms to control the flow of sound

   



DrCaleb @ Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:11 am

Liquid platinum at room temperature: The 'cool' catalyst for a sustainable revolution in industrial chemistry

   



DrCaleb @ Thu Jun 09, 2022 6:08 am

Microplastics found in freshly fallen Antarctic snow for first time

   



DrCaleb @ Thu Jun 09, 2022 6:09 am

Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop

   



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