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Aug 30, 2024

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Starts With A Bang!

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Ethan Siegel

What is the origin of quantum uncertainty?

No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

Aug 29, 2024

What is the origin of quantum uncertainty?

Aug 29, 2024

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Starts With A Bang!

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Ethan Siegel

Strongest “missing link” in black hole physics discovered at last

We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.

Jul 17, 2024

Strongest “missing link” in black hole physics discovered at last

Jul 17, 2024

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Starts With A Bang!

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Ethan Siegel

7 bizarre facts about the Solar System to stump any scientist

From the coldest planets to spacecraft that have exited the Solar System, these little-known facts stump even many professional…

Jun 24, 2024

7 bizarre facts about the Solar System to stump any scientist

Jun 24, 2024

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Starts With A Bang!

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Ethan Siegel

The only two “arrows of time” we have don’t match

Our thermodynamic arrow of time explains why the entropy of any isolated system always increases. But it can’t explain what we perceive.

Jul 4, 2024

The only two “arrows of time” we have don’t match

Jul 4, 2024

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Rachael Tatman

The four data science skills I didn’t learn in grad school (and how to learn them!)

Before I get to the meat of this post, I want to make one thing super clear: you do not need a graduate degree to be a data scientist…

Feb 9, 2018

The four data science skills I didn’t learn in grad school (and how to learn them!)

Feb 9, 2018

Matt Locke

How to Measure Ghosts: Arthur C. Nielsen and the Invention of Big Data

This is a story about ghosts. About how the technological networks of the twentieth century made us more distant, and yet more connected…

Nov 16, 2017

How to Measure Ghosts: Arthur C. Nielsen and the Invention of Big Data

Nov 16, 2017

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Books Are Our Superpower

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Novel Nest

This Unknown Book Recommended by Andrew Huberman has Changed My Life Forever

I can’t believe nobody is talking about ‘The Secret Pulse of Time’

Nov 13, 2023

This Completely Unknown Book Recommended by Andrew Huberman has Changed My Life Forever

Nov 13, 2023

The Pareto Investor

NASA Just Shut Down Quantum Computer After Something Insane Happened!

Houston, We Have a Problem!

Nov 9, 2023

NASA Just Shut Down Quantum Computer After Something Insane Happened!

Nov 9, 2023

Ali

16 Beautiful Math Movies That Everyone Should Watch at Least Once in Their Life

The existential philosopher Merleau Ponty says, “Film is not thought, it is perceived.”

Jul 5, 2023

16 Beautiful Math Movies That Everyone Should Watch at Least Once in Their Life

Jul 5, 2023

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Starts With A Bang!

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Ethan Siegel

Attosecond spectroscopy wins 2023’s Nobel Prize in Physics

Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.

Oct 11, 2023

Attosecond spectroscopy wins 2023’s Nobel Prize in Physics

Oct 11, 2023

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Starts With A Bang!

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Ethan Siegel

Warp drive’s best hope dies, as antimatter falls down

In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell “up” provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.

Oct 10, 2023

Warp drive’s best hope dies, as antimatter falls down

Oct 10, 2023

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Starts With A Bang!

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Ethan Siegel

What was it like when protons and neutrons formed?

For a substantial fraction of a second after the Big Bang, there was only a quark-gluon plasma. Here’s how protons and neutrons arose.

Dec 1, 2023

What was it like when protons and neutrons formed?

Dec 1, 2023

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