Quantum aesthetic

The quantum world defies common sense at every turn. Shaped across hundreds of thousands of years by biological evolution, our modern human brain struggles to comprehend things outside our familiar naturalistic context. Understanding a predator chasing prey across a grassy plain is easy; understanding most anything occurring at subatomic scales may require years of intense scholarship and oodles of gnarly math. It’s no surprise, then, that every year physicists deliver mind-boggling new…

With the right background and some patience, anyone can master this difficult subject.

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The universe is freezing. In spots like the Boomerang Nebula the temperature drops all the way down to one degree Kelvin. But if NASA scientists have

In May 1972 in a uranium enrichment plant in France, scientists examining ore from a mine in Gabon, West Africa, discovered that a natural nuclear reactor had spontaneously manifested in that region in the Earth’s primordial past, churning out approximately 100 Kw worth of energy continuously for a few hundred thousand years about 1.7 billion years ago. In order to [...]

Have you ever worried about getting stuck between dimensions? When you meditate and you are seeing all sorts of craziness and you know you have astral traveled, have you ever worried that when you …

Explore the higher dimensions with Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Harrison Greenbaum, mathematician John Allen Paulos, and physicist James Kakalios.