Sabine Hossenfelder
Physicist, blogger, author. Sometimes-songwriter, nighttime-philosopher. Maker of my own misery.
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Space Heater: Scientists Find New Way to Transfer Energy Through a Vacuum
Nanoscale experiments reveal that quantum effects can transmit heat between objects separated by empty space
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Space Heater: Scientists Find New Way to Transfer Energy Through a Vacuum
Nanoscale experiments reveal that quantum effects can transmit heat between objects separated by empty space
By Charles Q. Choi on December 11, 2019
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Researchers Develop First Mathematical Proof for a Key Law of Turbulence in Fluid Mechanics
University of Maryland mathematicians provide a mathematical explanation for a previously uncertain law of physics, revealing when the law applies and when it doesn’t.
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Researchers Develop First Mathematical Proof for a Key Law of Turbulence in Fluid Mechanics
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European Space Agency to launch space debris collector in 2025
Robotic junk collector will be first mission to remove item of debris from orbit
Will We Ever Find Dark Matter?
The failed hunt for elusive dark matter means that we may have to rethink our hypotheses.
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This article by particle physicist Dan Hooper forgets to mention the possibility that dark matter is not a particle.
57h
Is the Anthropic Principle scientific?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Rivers could generate thousands of nuclear power plants worth of energy, thanks to a new ‘blue’ membrane
Boron nitride nanotube membrane creates power by controlling the flow of electrically charged ions in water
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Rivers could generate thousands of nuclear power plants worth of energy, thanks to a new ‘blue’ membrane
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Is the Anthropic Principle scientific?
In this video, I explain why the anthropic principle is a good, scientific principle. First I explain the difference between the strong and the weak anthropi...
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In this week's video I explain what the Anthropic Principle is and why it is a good, scientific principle.
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Climate Models Got It Right on Global Warming
Even models in the 1970s accurately predicted the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and temperature rise
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Climate Models Got It Right on Global Warming
Even models in the 1970s accurately predicted the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and temperature rise
7d
Long Live the Multiverse!
The idea that our universe is just part of a much vaster cosmos has a long history—and it’s still very much with us
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Siegfried:"The multiverse is not a theory to be tested, but rather a prediction of other theories that can be tested."
If it doesn't have observable consequences it's not a prediction. Claiming that mathematical structures are real is belief not science.
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I Almost Lost My Career Because I Had the Wrong Passport
I had become a full professor and a best-selling author. Weeks later, Denmark charged me with violating my work and residence permit.
Black Hole Singularities Are as Inescapable as Expected
For the first time, physicists have calculated exactly what kind of singularity lies at the center of a realistic black hole.
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Black Hole Singularities Are as Inescapable as Expected quantamagazine.org/black-hole-sin… via @QuantaMagazine
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Dark energy might not exist after all
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Dark Energy might not exist after all
Correction to what I say at 5:26 mins: The supernovae that Permutter & Riess used were not all from the same direction of the sky, but the low-redshift ones ...
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Last week I told you what dark energy is and why astrophysicists believe it exists. This week I tell you about a recent paper that claims dark energy does not exist!
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Did scientists get climate change wrong?
Interview with Prof Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford. A recent opinion piece in the New York Times argued that scientists got climate change wrong ht...
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Also watch my recent interview with Tim Palmer in which we discuss the topic (among other things)
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Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against
The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions.
The Media's Coverage of AI is Bogus
Claims that machine learning can predict sexuality, psychosis and more are greatly overblown
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The Media’s Coverage of AI is Bogus
Claims that machine learning can predict sexuality, psychosis, and more are greatly overblown
By Eric Siegel on November 20, 2019
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I Tried to Find What Truth and Beauty Looked Like in My Brain
Advances in brain imaging technology are getting closer to revealing the shape of our thoughts.
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Advances in brain imaging technology are getting closer to revealing the shape of our thoughts.
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Groq Announces World's First Architecture Capable of 1,000,000,000,000,000 Operations per Second on a Single Chip
Groq Announces World's First Architecture Capable of 1,000,000,000,000,000 Operations per Second on a Single Chip
- Signals the shift from a transistor game to an architecture game
- Groq to reveal architecture to partners and customers during...
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Groq Announces World’s First Architecture Capable of 1,000,000,000,000,000 Operations per Second on a Single Chip
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Dark energy debate reignited by controversial analysis of supernovae data
Physicists claim cosmic acceleration is just a local artefact, but Nobel laureate disagrees
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Physicists claim cosmic acceleration is just a local artefact, but Nobel laureate disagrees
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AI Doesn’t Actually Exist Yet
Many businesses claim they’re using it, but they’re kidding themselves—and they’re kidding you, too
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AI Doesn’t Actually Exist Yet
Many businesses claim they’re using it, but they’re kidding themselves—and they’re kidding you, too
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