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  1. One Electron, Threaded Through Time

    In the spring of 1940 the telephone rang in the graduate residence at Princeton, and Richard Feynman, then a doctoral student, picked it up to hear the voice of his advisor, John Archibald Wheeler. Wheeler skipped the greeting. He had solved a mystery no one else had thought to name, he said, and he knew why every electron in the universe carries exactly the same mass and exactly the same charge. The answer was that they are all the same electron. […]

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  2. One Electron, Threaded Through Time

    In the spring of 1940 the telephone rang in the graduate residence at Princeton, and Richard Feynman, then a doctoral student, picked it up to hear the voice of his advisor, John Archibald Wheeler. Wheeler skipped the greeting. He had solved a mystery no one else had thought to name, he said, and he knew why every electron in the universe carries exactly the same mass and exactly the same charge. The answer was that they are all the same electron. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/01/one-

  3. When Spacetime Crystallises, a Black Hole is Born
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    <p>Physicists have thought for decades that microscopic black holes can theoretically emerge not from
    #crystallises #physicists #spacetime #black

  4. If #infinity, #Feynman only begins to 🤯🤯🤯 your head! 😹😹😹 #Aatman. Omnipresent. Light is closest to Aatman that we can experience by form. Reason Feynman is correct-ish, think he would agree-ish 😹😹😹, is Aatman is all pervaded so no such thing as time or space at all. #SpaceTime #Quantum #Physics

    How Light Travels Without Movi...

  5. If #infinity, #Feynman only begins to 🤯🤯🤯 your head! 😹😹😹 #Aatman. Omnipresent. Light is closest to Aatman that we can experience by form. Reason Feynman is correct-ish, think he would agree-ish 😹😹😹, is Aatman is all pervaded so no such thing as time or space at all. #SpaceTime #Quantum #Physics

    How Light Travels Without Movi...

  6. 2/n...outlined how mass and energy are coupled in gravitation, and the relationships between those in terms of curvature of space-time.
    Classically relativistic effects are "sticky" and impose limits on just how much stuff you can blast into space atop piles of high explosives before you run into problems. It's not just an #Engineering problem. The weight of the fuel required becomes a fundamental issue.
    The coupling between #Mass and #Energy that gives us #SpaceTime imposes some fundamental-

  7. 2/n...outlined how mass and energy are coupled in gravitation and the relationships between those in terms of curvature of space-time.
    Classically relativistic effects are "sticky" and impose limits on just how much stuff you can blast into space atop piles of high explosives before you run into problems. It's not just an #Engineering issue. The weight of the fuel required becomes a fundamental constraint.
    The coupling between #Mass and #Energy that gives us #SpaceTime imposes some fundamental-

  8. Help scientists find spacetime warps in these Euclid Space Telescope images
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    <p>A new citizen science project invites the public to scan never-before-seen images from the Euclid Space
    #scientists #spacetime #telescope #euclid

  9. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion "The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery " Sale: $19 to $2.99 by Sean M. Carroll Rating: 4.5/5 (1,271 Reviews) #Physics #Cosmology #Relativity #SpaceTime #Science #Books #STEM #BookSky

    The Biggest Ideas in the Unive...

  10. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion "The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery " Sale: $19 to $2.99 by Sean M. Carroll Rating: 4.5/5 (1,271 Reviews) #Physics #Cosmology #Relativity #SpaceTime #Science #Books #STEM #BookSky

    The Biggest Ideas in the Unive...

  11. 3/n…in the video excerpt they discuss various instances in which accepted ways of thinking about #Spacetime, #Gravity and #VacuumEnergy run into schmutz, or break down. #UAP observables point us in certain directions. There is a hand pointing. It’s not ours.
    That may seem like an unlikely place to reframe how we ask certain questions wrt things like #QuantumGravity. It may not seem immediately useful to suggest someone way smarter than us has solved some of these problems. Just inevitable

  12. 🐘 When Algebra Took the Floor — and Geometry Was Asked to Sit Quietly

    Why an imbalance in mathematical language may have slowed progress.

    We may not have lacked mathematics in fundamental physics — we may have over-privileged algebra at the expense of geometry.

    Algebra is superb at conservation and symmetry.

    Geometry tells us what is possible.

    When geometry was demoted to “intuition,” we: • over-valued static solutions
    • flattened scale dependence
    • fragmented processes that were actually unified

    Tunnelling, horizons, negative energy, spacetime shortcuts — same process, different geometric cost.

    This isn’t anti-maths.

    It’s a course correction.

    #Physics #GeometryFirst #Foundations #QuantumGravity #Spacetime