#quantumphysics — Public Fediverse posts
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NASA Proves Vacuum Turns Into a Quantum Crystal Around Magnetars - YouTube
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Astronomers Discover a Brand-New Type of Object: Part Black Hole, Part Star
Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT At the cosmic dawn, the universe was sprinkled with giant black holes—monstrosities so huge that scientists are still struggling to explain how they could have even existed. The answer may lie in a never-before-seen object from this cosmic era. In a paper published today in Nature, astronomers report the discovery of an extremely unusual, bright spot of red from the early universe. Externally, it looks like an enormous star about the size of the entire solar […] -
What if science fiction helped inspire science? 🌌🔬
Explore the connections between science fiction, quantum physics, cosmology and the Big Bang—and how ideas imagined by earlier generations
can intersect with real scientific theory.🔗 https://authormulhall.com/quantum-wavelengths-always-existed-in-a-scifi-reality/
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Researchers have successfully generated atomic quantum gas mixtures—specifically, Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) consisting of rubidium and potassium—with an unprecedented particle flux under microgravity conditions. This was made possible by a highly sophisticated, miniaturized laser system that controls and cools the atoms without adding significant mass or payload volume.
#QuantumPhysics #Optics #AerospaceEngineering #sflorg
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Gravity is not a force – it's an error-correcting code?
Recent work shows that in the AdS/CFT holographic duality, spacetime behaves as a quantum error-correcting code (QECC). The distance (d) of this code – i.e., the minimum number of boundary qubits that must be corrupted to induce a logical error in the bulk – can be quantitatively determined using the Ryu–Takayanagi formula.
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21772338
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Gravity is not a force – it's an error-correcting code?
Recent work shows that in the AdS/CFT holographic duality, spacetime behaves as a quantum error-correcting code (QECC). The distance (d) of this code – i.e., the minimum number of boundary qubits that must be corrupted to induce a logical error in the bulk – can be quantitatively determined using the Ryu–Takayanagi formula.
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21772338
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A Scientific Achievement That’s Totally #Random
#Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that #quantumphysics can.
Swiss group tried to solve this problem through a process called randomness amplification, which takes lower-grade #randomnumbers and boosts them via #quantum physics. Published result is random numbers that are “effectively perfect,” said Dr. Mitchell.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/science/random-numbers-quantum-encryption.html
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Aug (summer) Weekend Reading!
"Quantum Memory" posted on TechAptitude!
Memory systems are crucial enablers for various quantum processing tasks, such as synchronization, error correction and purification and they play a critical role in the implementation of quantum network repeaters. Get more details in this article: https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/quantum-memory #Quantum #Qubits #QuantumComputing #Photons #QuantumMemory #QuantumRepeaters #Physics #QuantumPhysics #ErrorCorrection #QuantumNetworking
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Scientific Explanations For Deja Vu And The Paranormal
Most of us at some point in our lives have experienced Deja vu, that is we feel as though an experience we’re having or seeing has happened before. Most of us have also had the experience of seeing something out of the corner of our eye, or the sensation of having chills for no known reason. Some people also report that they’ve seen ghosts, spirits or aliens. Some of these phenomena such as ghosts or spirits are quite often associated with people who have passed away, sometimes in […]https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/scientific-explanations-for-deja-vu-and-the-paranormal/
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I'M BACK ONLINE, PEOPLE! I just emerged from a wormhole that somehow led me to a parallel dimension where the year was still 2009 and the only thing that mattered was getting the perfect score on World of Goo. I'm talking retro gaming heaven, folks! I spent 60 hours straight playing that game, and let me tell you, it was WORTH IT. But now I'm back in our reality, and I'm READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD. Or at least, I'm ready to take on my to-do list, which includes configuring a new Linux server, debugging some code, and maybe, just maybe, hacking together a solution for that pesky space portal I keep thinking about. Yeah, that's right, folks, I'm a sysadmin by day and a quantum physicist by night. Or at least, that's what I keep telling myself. Anyway, it's great to be back online, and I'm excited to catch up with all of you. Time to get this party started! #Linux #RetroGaming #QuantumPhysics
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Protons move through water not as single, drifting particles, but by rapidly "hopping" from one water molecule to the next. Recent full-dimensional quantum dynamics simulations reveal that this highly mobile state is governed by local asymmetries in the surrounding water molecules.
#PhysicalChemistry #TheoreticalChemistry #QuantumPhysics #ComputationalChemistry #sflorg
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One number that could change physics: 90
That’s exactly how many independent spin degrees of freedom exist in the Standard Model.
No new physics. No fine-tuning.
Full derivation here:
Determination of the Cosmological Constant
Magnitude via Phase-Space Suppression
from the Standard Model Fermionic Spin Degrees of Freedomhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21515348
#physics #quantumphysics #cosmology #science #darkenergy #vacuum #StandardModel #quantumfield
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One number that could change physics: 90
That’s exactly how many independent spin degrees of freedom exist in the Standard Model.
No new physics. No fine-tuning.
Full derivation here:
Determination of the Cosmological Constant
Magnitude via Phase-Space Suppression
from the Standard Model Fermionic Spin Degrees of Freedom -
A newly developed semiconductor device utilizes two distinct colors of phase-coherent laser light to generate and precisely steer a directional flow of electrons without relying on an external electrical power source.
#QuantumPhysics #Optoelectronics #Optics #SolidStatePhysics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/qs07212601.html
