After atoms, it's now the turn of molecules to form a Bose–Einstein condensate.
"Physicists have succeeded in cooling down molecules so much that hundreds of them lock in step, making a single gigantic quantum state. These systems could be used to explore exotic physics, such as by creating solid materials that can flow without resistance, or could form the basis of a new kind of quantum computer."
I would always check against: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work for kids stuff.
I had it as a kid, and it gave me great understanding of many things with a sense of humor I love and it covers quite a lot.
British physicist Peter Higgs was born #OTD in 1929.
In 1964, Higgs proposed a theory explaining how particles acquire mass. This mechanism involves the interaction of particles with a field, now known as the Higgs field. The field has an associated particle (Higgs boson). The search for the Higgs boson became a major focus of particle physics experiments. In 2012, scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.
Particle physics and cosmology go hand-in-hand, despite the vast difference in scales. So when something new starts brewing in the quantum world, we pay attention. On this week’s Big Picture Science - could physics experiments take us “Beyond the Standard Model?”
@sjb Ah... Klein-Nishina, the QFT formula related to Compton scattering - I was getting a Compton scattering prac up and running in a 3rd Year Uni teaching lab and found a mistake in relation to calculations using Klein-Nishina for this prac in the classic Melissinos "Experiments in Modern Physics" (if I remember correctly the end result is OK... possibly two mistakes cancelling out... but it was a while back). I emailed the publisher but got no response - oh well.
Physicists conjecture that for each cat, there is an anticat of the same size but opposite temperament. Some cats are shifted red and some are shifted blue. I’m not sure I got that all right. I was prety sleepy during the lecture.
Cat and Anticat
Doodle No. 141
8” square
Drawn with archival archival black pigment ink, highly lightfast (fade resistant) watercolor pencils, mica paint on Arches 300 GSM 100% cotton paper
My PhD thesis has been published!
If you're interested in how to manipulate atoms into their coldest possible state using lasers, and why it's interesting to drop them in a 10m vacuum tower, this is for you! Also, fun with "painting" arbitrary shapes with laser beams! #physics#AtomInterferometry#Quantum#QuantumSensing https://doi.org/10.15488/17346
The “Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity” department at the @mpi_grav in Potsdam announces the opening of several postdoctoral appointments.
These appointments will be in the area of data analysis and its interface with waveform modeling for the recently adopted space-based gravitational-wave detector LISA.