HeelalHow black holes swap space and time DoorChristian Ventura Meinersen10 min…space and time change roles! Recap To summarize what have we learned: The metric g is a very important mathematical tool to understand the geometry of space and time and,…
MaterieHedy Lamarr DoorSumedha Biswas10 min…and Hedy and George discussed how to control armed torpedoes over long distances without the Nazis noticing it. Previously, a torpedo would be launched and would be communicated with using…
Serie: String Gravity ร la FeynmanDeeltjesQuantum Doodles DoorChristian Ventura MeinersenDeel 110 min…to multiply. This results in the fact that weird and crazy long diagrams come with extremely small prefactors, and so we would expect them to hardly contribute to the probability…
MaterieHow symmetries dictate physics DoorGreg Mathys14 min…to get some peculiar properties that they were looking after. Their equation was too hard to solve exactly, and they thus decided to instead use it to put bounds on…
Geen categorieHet Matilda-effect (2): Nettie Stevens DoorSumedha Biswas8 min…to write this article and for you to read it. Chromosomes Here would be a good place to pause the historical details and actually understand what chromosomes are and what…
Serie: Students on ScienceHeelalWhy relativity needs a quantum makeover DoorAmรฉlie OrbanDeel 510 min…is one of the four fundamental forces/interactions of physics, along with electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force. On the other hand, Quantum Mechanics, and its more…
Serie: String Gravity ร la FeynmanHeelalGeometric gravity DoorChristian Ventura MeinersenDeel 28 min…that the gravitational force, as Einstein taught us, emerges from the geometry of space and time itself. In the next and final part we will then combine both ideas and…
Geen categorieDeciphering the beginning of the universe DoorCarlos Duaso Pueyo12 min…overdense regions even more dense and starting the process of star and galaxy formation. You might think that these random fluctuations were too small to have any noticeable effect because…
Serie: Students on ScienceHeelalCosmic shower DoorLene van RootselaarDeel 212 min…ionisation, electromagnetic, and hadronic interactions. How these reactions take place is complex, but the result is a cascade of many different particles and radiations, like for example muons, protons, antiprotons,…