#quantum sciences

[quasi-normalcy]

Hey, so--we cooled your boyfriend down to a hundredth of a kelvin above absolute zero. Yeah, it was so cold that all of the chemical reactions in his body ceased. Sorry. We, uh, yeah, we used him as a dielectric material in a tiny qubit. And then we quantum-entangled him with another qubit, just to see if we could. Sorry. Yeah, anyway, we thawed him out after two weeks and apparently he's doing fine now. Didn't really teach us anything about how quantum processes work in biological systems, but it sure was, uh, cool. If you'll pardon the pun.

[quantimist]

Levitation at Room Temperature - Breakthrough in Physics

Room Temperature Levitation – Breakthrough in Physics What is Levitation? Levitation is the phenomenon of an object or body being suspended or floating in the air without any visible means of support. It is often considered an extraordinary and seemingly magical occurrence. If you have seen the famous Avatar and Avatar–Way of Water, then you might recall the floating rocks and mountains, they are…

[victusinveritas]

[quantummechanics]

Saturn has 83 moons. 63 moons are confirmed and named, and another 20 moons are awaiting confirmation of discovery and official naming.

This is their dynamic visualization while they travel with Saturn through space

[a-path-by-the-moon]

[mindblowingscience]

Physicists at the University of Bonn and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) have created a one-dimensional gas out of light. This has enabled them to test theoretical predictions about the transition into this exotic state of matter for the first time. The method used in the experiment by the researchers could be used for examining quantum effects. The results have been published in Nature Physics. Imagine you are standing at a swimming pool and come up with the idea of filling it with even more water. You grab a garden hose and use it to generate a jet of water that curves in a high arc to fall onto the surface of the pool. The water level increases briefly at the point where the jet of water hits the pool, but this change in water level is only minimal because the falling water is quickly distributed across the entire expanse of water.

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[cosmicportal]

“reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

~Albert Einstein

[typhlonectes]

[foxns]

Dr. Sam Beckett + Text Posts

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Please completely explain string theory to me in two sentences or less.

You know how Spaghetti and SpaghettiOs are basically the same thing but they're in different shapes so one is a soup and one is a pasta? String theory is like that but without making sense.

[stemgirlchic]

[wronghands1]

[dciphe-r]

MeMeS

[kryptickrow]

"In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. This experiment viewed this way is described as a paradox." - Wikipedia

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[mindblowingscience]

Electrons are marvelous little things. They often hang about orbiting atomic nuclei, but they don't have to – the Universe is full of loose electrons rattling about. Ninety years ago, theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner proposed that they didn't have to rattle about, either: that free electrons may be forced together in a peculiar kind of matter that has no atoms at all, just electrons trapped by their own repulsion a neat, crystalline lattice. This is known as a Wigner crystal, and physicists have finally obtained direct observational evidence that it can exist.

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[stone-cold-groove]

The mighty, mighty atom.