Kicking Erwin Schrödinger out of my idols. Not because he chose a cat for his thought experiment, but because of one thing I learnt: he sexually abused children and kept a diary about it. 🤮 Src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_abuse
Austrian Physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She was the first to pinpoint the atomic phenomenon now known as the Auger effect, but it was credited to Pierre Auger who independently discovered it months after her. Years later when she made a breakthrough in identifying and understanding nuclear fission, her findings were published only under the name of her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who later also received the Nobel Prize for this discovery. via @IAEA
#Cats exist in a quantum superposition of two states: "pet me" and "how dare you touch me you hairless ape". It is only by touching them that their wave function collapses to one of these states.
If the folks working on high-temperature superconductivity got together with the folks who worked on cold fusion we could have lukewarm superconfusion.
The 300-square-mile Telescope Array experiment in Utah detected a cosmic ray with an energy of 240 quintillion electron volts. That's as much energy as a thrown brick, jammed into a single subatomic particle.
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity.
The University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is hiring software engineers for science data processing on the Data Systems team. We build satellite borne instruments for studying astrophysics, planetary science, earth science, atmospheric science, and many more disciplines. Data Systems typically does the ground processing of the instrument data from binary packets through to research quality science data products (think netCDF, HDF5, CDF, FITS files). Mostly we use Python but we have some Java systems and C experience is always a plus for making Python faster.
Since Twitter’s essentially over, I made this account to continue sharing my content. If you’re interested in the below hashtags, then hopefully you’ll find my posts interesting!
The below picture is the Sunflower Galaxy that I captured a couple months ago.
New!! Observations of our Event Horizon Telescope (#EHT) collaboration have uncovered strong & organized magnetic fields spiraling around the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Images in polarized light of the #blackhole in the Milky Way center reveal structures similar to those in M87*, suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes. This also hints toward a hidden jet in Sgr A*! #astronomy#astrodon#scicomm#physics
Albert Einstein and Marie Curie conversing in Geneva, July 1924.
Marie met Einstein personally in 1911, during the first Solvay Conference in Brussels. Einstein confirmed this fact in one of his letters:
"I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels(…)"
Credits: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Held by Niels Bohr Library & Archives
It shows the distribution of hydrogen in M101, a nearby spiral #galaxy. More precisely, we see the radiation emitted by hydrogen atoms during something called hyperfine transition.
The odds of this happening are very rare: on average, you'd have to stare at a hydrogen atom for 10 million years to see this transition. But there are LOTS of hydrogen atoms out there!
#science#physics#physique
Simple et belle démonstration de l'effet capillaire : une cuillère, quelques allumettes et une goutte d'eau. :shibahearteyes:
L'action capillaire, ou effet capillaire, se produit lorsqu'un liquide s'écoule à travers des espaces étroits sans forces externes, telles que la gravité ; le mouvement du liquide est plutôt facilité par les forces intermoléculaires présentes entre le liquide et la ou les surfaces solides.
Allegations of data fabrication have sparked the retraction of multiple papers from Ranga Dias, a researcher who claimed discovery of a room-temperature superconductor
Happy Birthday Sir Isaac Newton who was born today 381 years ago!
His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz.
"That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following."
Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. They are the only mother & daughter pair to win Nobel Prizes. via @wikipedia
American physicist Richard Feynman was born #OTD in 1918.
He developed the Feynman diagrams, a pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which provided a powerful tool for calculating complex interactions among particles. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga for their fundamental contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics (QED).
The team at Freakonomics have just made a lovely three part podcast documentary about the incredible physicist Richard Feynman (I'm in there very briefly) and the first part is here:
Some of the most eminent scientific women. Top row, lefth to right: Émilie du Châtelet, Ada Lovelace, Maria Mitchell, Elisabetha Koopman Hevelius, Laura Bassi, Marie Curie. Bottow row, left to right: Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamarr, Jane Goodall, Katherine Johnson, Lise Meitner.
Absolutely mind-blown by the incredible #aurora tonight! Phone pictures from my back garden and a nearby field, in Northamptonshire. I have wanted to see this all my life, and never thought I’d manage to catch it. So happy!!! #AuroraBorealis#Physics#NerdAndProud
Bicycle (ciechanow.ski)
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity.
Controversial Physicist Faces Mounting Accusations of Scientific Misconduct (www.scientificamerican.com)
Allegations of data fabrication have sparked the retraction of multiple papers from Ranga Dias, a researcher who claimed discovery of a room-temperature superconductor