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Someone has got mommy issues! Mom of Chiefs' Harrison Butker, Who Said Women Should 'Lean Into' Being a Homemaker, Is Accomplished Physicist
https://www.hngn.com/articles/260670/20240

Mom of Chiefs' Harrison Butker, Who Said Women Should 'Lean Into' Being a Homemaker, Is Accomplished Physicist
Elizabeth Keller Butker has worked at the Winship Cancer Institute for decades. The mother of NFL kicker Harrison Butker, who gave a much-criticized commencement address that suggested working women were unfulfilled, is an accomplished medical physicist.

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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The Dial-Up 🕰️📞🌟
Dramatized scifi comedy series | An everyday internet support technician can also speak to people in the past and the future! After making a friend from 1999, he encounters a physicist living in the year 2052. How has she made contact? And does she know anything about the mysterious wormhole that...
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The Dial-Up 🕰️📞🌟
Dramatized scifi comedy series | An everyday internet support technician can also speak to people in the past and the future! After making a friend from 1999, he encounters a physicist living in the year 2052. How has she made contact? And does she know anything about the mysterious wormhole that appeared in his basement? 2 seasons, 9 episodes as of Sep 14, 2023.

Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist #Peter #Higgs has died aged 94.
He proposed the particle that gives other particles mass – now named the Higgs #boson and discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012

Peter Higgs: Physicist who theorised the Higgs boson has died aged 94
Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. He proposed the particle that gives other particles mass – now named the Higgs boson and discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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“Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 94”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68774195

Arno Penzias, RIP.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/science/space/arno-a-penzias-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk0.p4C2.kvAc8OyalOhW&smid=n…

Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory
His 1964 discovery with Robert W. Wilson settled a debate over the origin and evolution of the universe.

Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 94
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68774195

#superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results #materialsscience #physics

Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct.

With Mexico’s presidential election less than two months away, one thing is clear: The candidate for the governing party appears to be running away with it.
#Claudia #Sheinbaum, a physicist and protégée of the current president, holds a commanding lead of about 30 percentage points in the polls over the oppositio…

Claudia Sheinbaum Is Turning Mexico’s Presidential Election Into a Blowout
Claudia Sheinbaum, a protégée of Mexico’s current president, holds a commanding lead in the polls. But to many in Mexico, she is still an enigma.

Physics, scientific investigation and society in Argentina, 1920-1930
Alejandro Gangui, Eduardo L. Ortiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09593 https://

Physics, scientific investigation and society in Argentina, 1920-1930
We analyse the scientific research carried out at the Institute of Physics of the National University of La Plata in the first half of the 20th century, and the cultural and social context in which they were immersed. We focus especially on the activities carried out by the Argentine physicist Ramon G. Loyarte, who was an emblematic personality in the scientific, educational, cultural and political world of Argentina in those years. We discuss his most important works in experimental physics an…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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#superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results #materialsscience #physics

Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct.

Musste bei dem Video von Sabine Hossenfelder, deren "no bullshit"-Haltung ich sehr mag, gerade an "What is real?" von Adam Becker (https://bookwyrm.social/book/27179/s/what-is-real) denken. Das fand ich sehr spannend und anregend.

"Thus the CMB temperature fluctuations look like Chladni patterns resulting from a complicated three-dimensional drumhead that vibrated for 380 000 years."
- Jean-Pierre Luminet, physicist
https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3374

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From Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Software Engineering
Victor Hugo's timeless observation, "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come", resonates today as Quantum Computing, once only a dream of a physicist, stands at the threshold of reality with the potential to revolutionise the world. To comprehend the surge of attention it commands today, one must delve into the motivations that birthed and nurtured Quantum Computing. While the past of Quantum Computing provides insights into the present, the future could unfold through the len…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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Bob: As Santayana once said, the best time to prepare your political campaign is before you were born. The next best time is now.
Cal: Am I on the ballot?
Bob: No. Our sim identified your dad as the write-in winner 62% of the time, but then he died rescuing puppies from a burning barn. You'll take his place.
Cal: I love puppies! Ok, I'll help the puppies vote for my dad!
Bob (aside): Are any of Ed's other kids available?
Dan: Just the physicist.

Video #recommendation:
Simon Clark, an atmospheric physicist who has a YouTube channel about climate (change), talks about e-bikes in context to lowering your emissions
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HW5b8_KBtT8

💪 Two-dimensional nanomaterial sets expansion record
#material

Two-dimensional nanomaterial sets expansion record
It is a common hack to stretch a balloon out to make it easier to inflate. When the balloon stretches, the width crosswise shrinks to the size of a string. Noah Stocek, a Ph.D. student collaborating with Western physicist Giovanni Fanchini, has developed a new nanomaterial that demonstrates the opposite of this phenomenon.

Physicists Gather to Remember the Father of Quantum Cosmology – edhat
https://www.edhat.com/news/physicists-gather-to-remember-the-father-of-quantum-cosmology/

Physicists Gather to Remember the Father of Quantum Cosmology
By Harrison Tasoff Physicists from around the country converged at UC Santa Barbara for two days of talks and camaraderie in memory of esteemed physicist Professor Jim Hartle, one of four cofounders of the campus’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), who passed away last May. The symposium, hosted at KITP in Kohn Hall, celebrated

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
April showers brings May flowers. Let's play!
#VehicleAMovieOrShow

Herbert Kroemer, Nobel winner who developed laser tech, dies at 95
#Herbert #Kroemer, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who spearheaded the development of a new kind of semiconductor, leading to Information Age advances at the heart of everything from bar-code scanners, CD players and cellphones to satellite communi…

Herbert Kroemer, Nobel winner who developed laser tech, dies at 95
The German-born physicist developed a new kind of semiconductor that became crucial to the development of cellphones, CD players and fiber-optic networks.

You might know the Beatles song Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. (Not one of their seminal works, one might think.) Is the Maxwell in question James Clerk? OK, not that fun so far, but here comes the bombshell:
The Finnish version of the song is called Paulin Taikakaulin, which means Pauli’s Magic Rolling Pin. Can this Pauli be anyone except Wolfgang? Another physicist! Deep.
#Beatles

Midnight Burger - Season 4 coming soon 🍔🌌⏳
Dramatized scifi comedy | Total listening time: 40h 21m
Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos with it’s staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built it, but when it appears there’s ...

Midnight Burger - Season 4 coming soon 🍔🌌⏳
Dramatized scifi comedy | Total listening time: 40h 21m Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos with it’s staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built it, but when it appears there’s always someone around who could really use a cup of coffee. Nominated for a 2024 Ambies Award for Best Fiction Podcast. 3 seasons, 41 episodes as of Nov 14, 2023.

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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Herbert Kroemer, Nobel winner who developed laser tech, dies at 95
#Herbert #Kroemer, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who spearheaded the development of a new kind of semiconductor, leading to Information Age advances at the heart of everything from bar-code scanners, CD players and cellphones to satellite communi…

Herbert Kroemer, Nobel winner who developed laser tech, dies at 95
The German-born physicist developed a new kind of semiconductor that became crucial to the development of cellphones, CD players and fiber-optic networks.

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DoseDiff: Distance-aware Diffusion Model for Dose Prediction in Radiotherapy
Treatment planning, which is a critical component of the radiotherapy workflow, is typically carried out by a medical physicist in a time-consuming trial-and-error manner. Previous studies have proposed knowledge-based or deep-learning-based methods for predicting dose distribution maps to assist medical physicists in improving the efficiency of treatment planning. However, these dose prediction methods usually fail to effectively utilize distance information between surrounding tissues and tar…

You might know the Beatles song Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. (Not one of their seminal works, one might think.) Is the Maxwell in question James Clerk? OK, not that fun so far, but here comes the bombshell:
The Finnish version of the song is called Paulin Taikakaulin, which means Pauli’s Magic Rolling Pin. Can this Pauli be anyone except Wolfgang? Another physicist! Deep.
#Beatles

Gaussian free field and Liouville quantum gravity
Nathana\"el Berestycki, Ellen Powell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16642 https://…

Gaussian free field and Liouville quantum gravity
Over fourty years ago, the physicist Polyakov proposed a bold framework for string theory, in which the problem was reduced to the study of certain "random surfaces". He further made the tantalising suggestion that this theory could be explicitly solved. Recent breakthroughs from the last fifteen years have not only given a concrete mathematical basis for this theory but also verified some of its most striking predictions, as well as Polyakov's original vision. This theory, now known in the mat…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16324 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

DoseDiff: Distance-aware Diffusion Model for Dose Prediction in Radiotherapy
Treatment planning, which is a critical component of the radiotherapy workflow, is typically carried out by a medical physicist in a time-consuming trial-and-error manner. Previous studies have proposed knowledge-based or deep-learning-based methods for predicting dose distribution maps to assist medical physicists in improving the efficiency of treatment planning. However, these dose prediction methods usually fail to effectively utilize distance information between surrounding tissues and tar…

Dislike of general opinion makes for tight elections
Olivier Devauchelle, Piotr Szymczak, Piotr Nowakowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12207 https://…

Dislike of general opinion makes for tight elections
In modern democracies, the outcome of elections and referendums is often remarkably tight. The repetition of these divisive events are the hallmark of a split society; to the physicist, however, it is an astonishing feat for such large collections of diverse individuals. Many sociophysics models reproduce the emergence of collective human behavior with interacting agents, which respond to their environment according to simple rules, modulated by random fluctuations. A paragon of this class is t…

E. Amaldi, C. Dilworth, G.P.S. Occhialini on F.G. Houtermans
Pasquale Tucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05376 https://arxiv.org/pdf/24…

E. Amaldi, C. Dilworth, G.P.S. Occhialini on F.G. Houtermans
In the Occhialini-Dilworth Archives of the University of Milan are preserved four typescripts by E. Amaldi, dealing with F.G. Houtermans, German physicist, who fled to the USSR to escape the Nazis. During a Stalinist purge he was arrested. The typescripts were sent to the two Milanese physicists so that they might give a judgement. G.S. Occhialini and C. Dilworth, in fact, had personally met Houtermans in 1934 and in 1950. The scenario is that of the role of nuclear physicists during the WW2. T…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Study on the static detection of ICF target based on muonic X-ray sphere encoded imaging
Dikai Li, Jian Yu, Chunhui Zhang, Xiangyu Wan, Leifeng Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11278

Study on the static detection of ICF target based on muonic X-ray sphere encoded imaging
Muon Induced X-ray Emission (MIXE) was discovered by Chinese physicist Zhang Wenyu as early as 1947, and it can conduct non-destructive elemental analysis inside samples. Research has shown that MIXE can retain the high efficiency of direct imaging while benefiting from the low noise of pinhole imaging through encoding holes. The related technology significantly improves the counting rate while maintaining imaging quality. The sphere encoding technology effectively solves the imaging blurring c…

PHYSTAT Informal Review: Marginalizing versus Profiling of Nuisance Parameters
Robert D. Cousins, Larry Wasserman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17180 https://…

PHYSTAT Informal Review: Marginalizing versus Profiling of Nuisance Parameters
This is a writeup, with some elaboration, of the talks by the two authors (a physicist and a statistician) at the first PHYSTAT Informal review on January 24, 2024. We discuss Bayesian and frequentist approaches to dealing with nuisance parameters, in particular, integrated versus profiled likelihood methods. In regular models, with finitely many parameters and large sample sizes, the two approaches are asymptotically equivalent. But, outside this setting, the two methods can lead to different …

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Andreev reflection, Andreev states, and long ballistic SNS junction
Edouard Sonin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16593 https://arxiv.org/…

Andreev reflection, Andreev states, and long ballistic SNS junction
The analysis in the present paper is based on the most known concept introduced by the brilliant physicist Alexander Andreev: Andreev bound states in a normal metal sandwiched between two superconductors. The paper presents results of direct calculations of {\em ab initio} expressions for the currents in a long ballistic SNS junction. The expressions are expanded in $1/L$ ($L$ is the thickness of the normal layer). The main contribution $\propto 1/L$ to the current agrees with the results obtai…

Some Things I Have Learned From Detlef D\"urr
Roderich Tumulka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04368 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04368…

Some Things I Have Learned From Detlef Dürr
Detlef Dürr (1951-2021) was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who worked particularly on the foundations of quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and statistical mechanics. This piece is a rather personal look back at him and his science.

PHYSTAT Informal Review: Marginalizing versus Profiling of Nuisance Parameters
Robert D. Cousins, Larry Wasserman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17180 https://…

PHYSTAT Informal Review: Marginalizing versus Profiling of Nuisance Parameters
This is a writeup, with some elaboration, of the talks by the two authors (a physicist and a statistician) at the first PHYSTAT Informal review on January 24, 2024. We discuss Bayesian and frequentist approaches to dealing with nuisance parameters, in particular, integrated versus profiled likelihood methods. In regular models, with finitely many parameters and large sample sizes, the two approaches are asymptotically equivalent. But, outside this setting, the two methods can lead to different …