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Barry Schwartz 🫖 @chemoelectric.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I have come to realize that CLOCKS DO SLOW DOWN NEAR MASSIVE BODIES. However, this has nothing to do with ‘time dilation’. ‘Modern physics’ stupidly imagines that a cesium atomic clock is some kind of idea timekeeper gifted by the Holy Name. A CESIUM ATOM IS MADE OF MOVING PARTS, YOU MORONS! […]

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Einstein’s general relativity equations: explained in plain English The #Einstein field equations are incredibly complex and general. Even the best physicists can only solve them for a few special cases. In plain English, here's what they mean. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #physics #space #GR

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Einstein's general relativity equations: explained in plain English

General relativity is incredibly difficult, both physically and mathematically. But all theorists need to learn it. Here's how to grok it.

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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

During World War II, the British Royal Navy experimented with using ice reinforced with wood pulp to build an aircraft carrier. Now researchers led by a team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel have extended that idea from the 1940s by adding plant-based crystals to ice, creating […]

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Win :debian: :dateapp: @winsdominoes.net · 14/10/2026

Have I told you all that I met a legend a day before my birthday? *P.S. The drawing is at KMITL's Faculty of Science!* #physics #science #newton

Me doing the peace sign beside a drawing of Isaac Newton.

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

🔺 Bismuth grown on a semiconductor can form fractal triangles with edge and corner states, which could matter for future quantum devices. Researchers at Utrecht University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University grew bismuth on indium antimonide and got it to self-assemble into Sierpinski triangles […]

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Naturalness: a useful principle, but not an absolute rule Naturalness means something very special to physicists, and "naturalness arguments" are often used to motivate theoretical explorations. It's often a useful guide, but it's no law. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #physics #astro

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Naturalness: a useful principle, but not an absolute rule

In physics, things shouldn't need fine-tuning in order to match reality. Is naturalness a good guide towards an underlying explanation?

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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Ah, The Wave Equation. My old nemesis (not really). It sure has been a while but I guess I gotta brush up on my calculus notation so I can understand optical error budgeting. Sigh. #calculus #optics #physics

A screenshot from the Wikipedia page talking about how to write the wave equation compactly using Laplace and d'Alembert operators

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Young, close-in #planets love to live dangerously: They can provoke violent stellar #flares that backfire on themselves. At #mpsgoettingen, Ekaterina Ilin heads a new Max Planck Research Group and #ERCStartingGrant to study this self-destructive […] [Original post on academiccloud.social]

The close-in planet’s magnetic field interacts with that of its host star, thereby triggering a massive solar flare.

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

`... Birkhoff's theorem says that the exterior geometry must be Schwarzschild; the only effect of the pulsation is to change the location of the stellar surface. This means that a spherically pulsating star cannot emit gravitational waves, which requires at least a mass quadrupole structure` […]

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Philosophics @microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

When Physics Runs Out of Answers, Does Metaphysics Have Any? Does science explain reality, or merely describe it? And what happens when our questions outlive the frameworks that make them intelligible? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Nice piece on AI doomerism in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, featuring @emilymbender and @timnitGebru thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-the-bad…

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Florian Marquardt @fmarquardtgroup.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

"On a planet far, far away, intelligent life forms known as Lasans think, move, and feel. They may even conduct experiments and write scientific articles. They are, in other words, like humans. Except, how- ever, for one notable detail: the early an- cestors of Lasans, flailing their way through […]

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Florian Marquardt @fmarquardtgroup.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Blog (from my Mastodon posts): fmarqua.pages.gwdg.de/blog Today I just had Claude help me generate a blog website from my Mastodon posts (it runs a python script that fetches posts and reformats them nicely, pulling together subsequent posts in a […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Florian Marquardt @fmarquardtgroup.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Regarding the AI safety debate, I found the concept of a 'Scientist AI' very enlightening, as detailed in a recent paper from Yoshua Bengio (arxiv.org/html/2606.29657v2), following earlier work. Here's the gist as I understand it. Some of the worry about AI (next to energy consumption […]

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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Hey folks. Have you ever wondered what happens when something makes a sonic boom* but it's actually so fast that it does the same physics but it's a "luminous" boom? Yeah that's Cherenkov Radiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_rad… *Sonic booms are made when something travels […]

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Colleagues and collaborators from around the world came together in Würzburg this week for the symposium SAMI26 (Solar Activity, Magnetism and Irradiance) – and most of all to celebrate 4 solar cycles of the career of #mpsgoettingen director Sami K […] [Original post on academiccloud.social]

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Universität Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

AI systems are subject to physical limitations, as researchers demonstrate in a recent study. Within a framework describing the thermodynamic limits of information processing, they provide mathematical proof that, in some cases, agents who […] [Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]

Glowing digital brain over circuit board with swirling icons of people, cityscape, and nature, symbolizing AI and connected futures.

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Stephen Sekula @steve.mastodon.cooleysekula.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I’ve put together a short playlist of videos on #PeerTube that are from my catalogue of course and public lecture materials in physics. The 4 videos have some relevance to the Physiology/#Medicine (light and cell ion currents), #Physics (neutrino astronomy), and #Chemistry (symmetry) prizes […]

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ask Ethan: Can a Kevlar tether create artificial gravity in space? The cheapest way to create artificial gravity in space is to rotate two massive, tethered capsules together. But how to control for both angular momentum and Coriolis forces? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics

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Ask Ethan: Can a Kevlar tether create artificial gravity in space?

A huge obstacle for human bodies in space is that we fare poorly in zero/reduced gravity. Can two rotating, tethered capsules overcome that?

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

🔦 Cosmic rays revealed a void of at least 30 metres inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu, without drilling a single hole. Muons from cosmic-ray showers pass through stone and get absorbed unevenly. Fewer muons arriving from one direction means more rock in the path. The ScanPyramids team counted […]

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

IceCube, high-energy neutrinos, and Francis Halzen win 2026’s Physics Nobel A deep dive on the history and development of high-energy neutrino astrophysics. Francis Halzen thoroughly deserves to be physics' first solo Nobel Laureate since 1992! bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #physics #astro

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IceCube, high-energy neutrinos, and Francis Halzen win 2026's Physics Nobel

Back in 1988, Francis Halzen had what he called a "cute idea." His vision grew into the IceCube observatory, and earns the 2026 Nobel Prize.

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I'm not sure which fact about neutrinos is more astounding: A) That it's possible for a single #neutrino to travel through 5,000 km of Earth without ever interacting with an atom or B) That it's possible for a single neutrino physicist to win a #NobelPrize without ever coming within 5,000 km […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The ICECUBE experiment is so sci-fi, it deserved the Nobel Prize in Physics. Francis Halzen was all, Hey, let's drill 2500-meter holes in the ice at the literal South Pole and fill them with neutrino detectors. The experiment fills an entire cubic kilometer. That […] [Original post on mas.to]

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#NobelPrize week continues with Belgian scientist Francis Halzen winning the #physics prize for his work with the IceCube neutrino detector and confirming high-energy neutrinos from space thehill.com/homenews/space/nobel-pr…

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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space. From @npr: "Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles with a mind-bogglingly small mass. Yet they are everywhere: they spew from stars like the sun and trillions zip through our bodies every second." […]

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n-gons @ngons.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I did my PhD experimental astroparticle #physics with the AMANDA and IceCube #neutrino experiments many moons ago.I am so happy to learn the news today that Francis was awarded a Nobel price as one of key players making this experiment a reality.

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Stephen Sekula @steve.mastodon.cooleysekula.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

My PhD alma mater, UW-Madison, has a long history of connection to #NobelPrizes spanning the categories. Bardeen is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in Physics. It has been 26 years since the last Madison-connected #physics prize. Nobel Prize Awardees - University of […]

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know the #NobelPrize has many downsides, but the upside is that today a lot more people than usual are talking about #physics.

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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

So cool! Neutrinos were the main particles I studied back when I was doing research and learning physics. And now Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in Physics! 🥹 apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-phys… #Physics #Neutrinos #NobelPrize

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SNOLAB @snolabscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congratulations to Francis Halzen from the team at SNOLAB! The 2026 #NobelPrize in #Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Congratulations! At the annual meeting of the German Mineralogical Society, Angelina Abel from #mpsgoettingen was presented the Young Scientist Award 2005. #DMG #Award #YoungScientistAward

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Dolf van der Haven 🐘🐓 @dvdhaven.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.” #nobelprize #nobelprize2026 #physics

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