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ScienceCommunicator<p>The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Wikipedia</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ma</span><span class="invisible">king_of_the_Atomic_Bomb</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
The Conversation U.S.<p>Black holes, once thought to destroy everything in their path, may actually help scientists locate potentially habitable worlds in the universe. A <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> professor reveals surprising connections between powerful jets and galactic ecosystems. <a href="https://theconversation.com/jets-from-powerful-black-holes-can-point-astronomers-toward-where-and-where-not-to-look-for-life-in-the-universe-251560" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/jets-from-</span><span class="invisible">powerful-black-holes-can-point-astronomers-toward-where-and-where-not-to-look-for-life-in-the-universe-251560</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Wilhem Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays and earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. I’ve depicted him in this thermochromic portrait at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photograph of him in his lab, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery - <br>🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Roentgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roentgen</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/xrays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xrays</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a></p>
bewitchedmind<p>"Why can't physicists decide if warp drives are real?"</p><p>Because spore drive threw the whole canon in the bin, that's why.</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-physicists-warp-real.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-03-physicis</span><span class="invisible">ts-warp-real.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
skry<p>"A misstep in graphene alignment led researchers to a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: the quantum butterfly pattern predicted nearly 50 years ago."</p><p><a href="https://interestingengineering.com/science/the-butterfly-effect-a-misaligned-experiment-accidentally-unfolds-quantum-wings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">interestingengineering.com/sci</span><span class="invisible">ence/the-butterfly-effect-a-misaligned-experiment-accidentally-unfolds-quantum-wings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
Micro SF/F by O. Westin<p>"I don't get why we can't just go straight to Japan."</p><p>"A few intermed-"</p><p>"They say teleports are instant, but we have to walk between stations!"</p><p>"A few steps to adjust your angle and-"</p><p>"They say distance don't matter!"</p><p>"Yes, but your momentum and orientation does."</p><p>"That's discrimination!"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/VSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
Colin Purrington<p>I've recently learned that some glassware contains uranium dioxide and will glow under ultraviolet light. And that they're collectible. For giggles, I used my UV Beast to illuminate some bowls at a house I'm cleaning out. They are not at all yellow/green in normal light. Are they glowing enough? <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uranium</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/fluorescence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fluorescence</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/uvlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uvlight</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to one of greatest <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mathematicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematicians</span></a> of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, 🧵1/</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>"My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously."</p><p>Happy Birthday Emmy Noether!!</p><p>She made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's 1st and 2nd theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. She developed theories of rings, fields, &amp; algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry &amp; conservation laws.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noe</span><span class="invisible">ther</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninStem</span></a></p>
Corey S Powell<p>The ultimate goal of the Euclid space telescope is to map dark matter &amp; dark energy across the cosmos. </p><p>But along the way, the mission is producing a remarkable census of galaxy populations -- including thousands of previously unknown dwarf galaxies.</p><p><a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2025/thousands-of-dwarf-galaxies-discovered/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2025/th</span><span class="invisible">ousands-of-dwarf-galaxies-discovered/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a></p>
titaniumbiscuit<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> good point! 😅 Hm, now I'm wondering: <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/blackholes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackholes</span></a> are described as the curvature of spacetime approaching infinity. What about *negative* infinity then? Are there theories about that? Natively, I would think that this would then be antigravity, i.e. a point that you could never reach, even if you traveled at the speed of light. <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
Janet Fraser<p>Why is spaghetti such a locus of speculation and study for physicists?</p><p>For one, it's simple – flour, water and heat, says Vishal Patil ...a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. The fact that a combination of so few components raises so many deep questions speaks to how physics underlies everything they see and do, Patil says.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/spaghetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spaghetti</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pasta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pasta</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bbcnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbcnews</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250319-spaghetti-science-what-pasta-reveals-about-the-universe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2025031</span><span class="invisible">9-spaghetti-science-what-pasta-reveals-about-the-universe</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thought-experiments-that-fray-the-fabric-of-space-time-20240925" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quantamagazine.org/the-thought</span><span class="invisible">-experiments-that-fray-the-fabric-of-space-time-20240925</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BlackHoles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHoles</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ThoughtExperiments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtExperiments</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/spacetime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacetime</span></a></p>
wallabra 🇧🇷<p>I can finally finalize the basic physics development stage of Loot &amp; Roam with the implementation of water physics! Next up, terrain.</p><p><a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/lootandroam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lootandroam</span></a></p>
ScienceCommunicator<p>So, let's be clear, you don't disagree that you have bones, flesh &amp; skin? You are aware that you eat food, drink, &amp; shit? That you are part of a group in which the adult females give birth to babies? </p><p>And yet, you say you believe that you're not an animal? </p><p>Considering this, don't you think that whatever that belief is based on, is clearly detached from the objective reality (of what you actually are. Belief aside) </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religiosity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religiosity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/delusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>delusion</span></a></p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p>This period was a nightmare for technical persons building computers. At that point in time I was building computers with a frequency of about 6 to 12 per day. The operating systems were put in afterwards.</p><p> Imagine the following nightmare scenario; at the certain point in time within the period of guarantee client calls with the message that the computer just stops working. The client has done everything that's needed to protect it; UPS, grounded outlets, ground resistance between .5 ohms and 1.2 ohms<br>Good UPS APC were good ones at that point in time.</p><p>Computers come in and after a while it's easy to see what happened because all the Elco's were dead, all of them!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/parts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/capacitors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capacitors</span></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
Dendrobatus Azureus<p>The massive capacitor failure of 2K2</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSpzAVpnXo4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=rSpzAVpnXo</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/parts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/capacitors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capacitors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
ScienceCommunicator<p>No average thinker in the 21st century could have known that minds qualitatively more intelligent than theirs, regarded their average folk intelligence as the only variable that was preventing something akin to world peace. And so, these above average minds diligently used their intelligence so as to promote a general scientific literacy</p><p>In general, what scientifically illiterate people aren't aware of harms them &amp; society</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a></p>
Alejandro Gaita-Ariño<p>OK, and now a puzzle/quiz for the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/symmetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symmetry</span></a> (point group) oriented people. What is the label you would associate to an object we are seeing, somewhere in the picture?</p><p>A clarification (?) for the non-magnetochemists: it's a popular arrangement for the first layer of atoms around the magnetic ion in lanthanide-based single ion magnets (LnSIMs). Popular because it was present in the first family of LnSIMs, and also because it's rather stable, chemically, so it's common.</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p>
diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱<p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/caturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caturday</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/caturdayeveryday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caturdayeveryday</span></a></p>