- Dispersion of sunlight through single slit
Every evening, the sun shines through a thin slit (~5 mm) in my apartment balcony and then through the screen & sliding glass door, casting a rainbow pattern. The spectrum of colors can be seen on...
3,012 points32 comments6 d ago
- Yang Mills proof will be released tomorrow
452 points150 comments2 d ago
- How would you remove the cup?
289 points138 comments5 d ago
- Physical Superintelligence Inc claims to have solved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture
Thoughts?
219 points47 comments5 d ago
- Does Anyone Else Feel That The Signal-to-Noise Ratio Has Been Unbearable Lately?
First there were paper mills, and crankery being posted on ArXiv. Now, with AI, it feels as though almost everything has become obfuscated and uninterpretable with the sheer volume of papers going...
167 points36 comments3 d ago
- People who work in computational physics: how much of the CS curriculum did you have to learn?
121 points46 comments5 d ago
- Thermodynamics: Confusion on the proof that entropy increases overtime.
Thermodynamics folks, asking here because no sources seem to help ease my confusion and I have been cracking my head.Entropy of isolated system increasing overtime sounds cool to me but I am...
75 points20 comments6 d ago
- Brian Greene talks about OpenAI's attempt to prove Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
70 points6 comments5 d ago
- my first time studying physics, as a math student.
I started exploring the study of physics and decided to take a look at a book on classical mechanics: Classical Mechanics by Tom W. B. Kibble and Frank H. Berkshire (5th Edition). I only read two...
63 points30 comments6 d ago
- PhD in batteries, energy storage
Hello, I'm currently doing a masters in physics. I would like to know about the field of batteries and energy storage. What is the current status of these fields? What about the funding for PhDs...
50 points12 comments4 d ago