#Physicists

Sabine Hossenfelder

skdh

Here is something that should worry you. Each time I give a public lecture people come up to me and say they agree with me that building a bigger collider

George Iskander (جورج إسكندر)

gwisk20

I've been thinking lately about how some popsci has promoted this harmful view that quantum mechanics (QM) is esoteric, mysterious, and fully understood only by a select few physicists. Let

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

ON PHYSICISTS DOING OTHER NON-PHYSICS THINGSBeing good at physics doesn't mean you know how to do everything and I spent time training myself and learning from others when I picked

Maxim Raginsky

mraginsky

Controversial take: Engineers or computer scientists have a much easier time accepting the existence of free will than physicists. Here is how I see it. Let's stick to systems modeled

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. KAREN UHLENBECK, born 1942. First woman to win the Abel Prize, the "Nobel Prize of Maths." A founder of modern geometric analysis, her work has

Robert McNees

mcnees

J.J. Thomson was born #OTD in 1856. He discovered the electron, developed experimental techniques that led to mass spectroscopy, trained physicists like Rutherford and Bohr, but was ~betrayed~ by his

Katie Mack

AstroKatie

It’s funny people use Einstein as the archetype of a “lone genius” outside the “establishment” because he was “just a patent clerk.”He was, at that time, also a PhD student

Ken Wilson Stan Account

wickrotate

Crazy stuff happens when you try to measure the mass and charge and momentum of particles—stuff beyond the measurement problem in QM. Suppose you step on a scale and weigh

President Elect Durinn McFurren

DurinnM

I want to talk briefly about a couple of reasons that physicists are so weirded out by quantum mechanics.Now, I want to hasten to say that quantum theories give REALLY

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

This 3-yr-old piece has just been tweeted into my timeline. Precursor to big Cambridge Analytica reveal. I’d forgotten I’d documented the lengths Dominic Cummings went to cover up his r’ship

Post-Culture Review

PostCultRev

I wish people would get over this idea that people who fall into cults or conspiracies are “dumb” or “ignorant” somehow. It’s literally a dangerous thought, a way to other

Dr. Nuzhat Tabassum

ThenSheAppears

In all honesty, it really is hard to be motivated to encourage younger generations from underrepresented groups (especially ethnic minorities) to pursue a career in Earth Sciences or in academia

Nsikan Akpan, PhD

MoNscience

Couldn't sleep last night, so went down a rabbit hole of face mask history. So researchers have known since at least 1919 that masks, when constructed properly and used appropriately,

PEG

pegobry

Time to talk about one of my pet issues of concern: string theory. String theory doesn't work, after decades of work by the world's top physicists. At this point, even

Robert McNees

mcnees

Cécile DeWitt-Morette, mathematical physicist who made foundational contributions to the study of Feynman functional integrals, organized the first American conference on general relativity, and founded the Les Houches Summer School,

srdjan ostojic

ostojic_srdjan

During my physics undergrad, I have never heard of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). Why? Almost all matrices in physics are symmetric, and in that case SVD reduces to eigenvalue decomposition.

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