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From wood chuck holes to worm holes — A look into the notebooks of John Wheeler
Glimpse into the notebooks of physicist John Wheeler, which capture his eclectic, crazy, and yet never one-dimensional ideas.
How is spacetime altered by entangled particles?
A new thought experiment explores the interface between quantum mechanics and general relativity using the transfer of information.
Einstein-Besso manuscript on the perihelion motion of Mercury sold for record amount
A 1913 manuscript by Albert Einstein and Michele Besso containing a precursor theory to general relativity sells at Paris auction.
New ‘super light source’ should allow fascinating insights into atoms
International team of scientists proposes plans for high-intensity gamma radiation source at CERN.
The temperature of the elements
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World Metrology Day: A New Era of Precision in Physics
On May 20th, 2019, the world celebrates World Metrology Day. Although an annual celebration, this year in particular stands out from the rest as it opens a new era of precision in physics. Starting today, all seven base units of the International System of Units (SI)...
Electric Field Writing of Ferroelectric Nanodomains
The local conductivity in bismuth ferrite thin films with well-ordered domain walls.
Curvature Changes Quantization Procedure
A theoretical puzzle has existed for over half a century: how to perform quantization for a particle constrained to remain on the curved surface with Dirac’s canonical quantization scheme? The answer has been found.
Quantum System Thermalization: If and How?
An open problem of many-body physics, related to isolated quantum systems, is reviewed for a Bose-Einstein condensate.
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