The perovskite-related metal oxide TbInO3 exhibits an exotic state of matter called quantum spin liquid, according to a team of researchers from the University of Liverpool and McMaster University. Due to the local terbium environment in TbInO3, a honeycomb lattice of terbium spins emerges in the crystal structure upon cooling. …
Read More »Researchers Recreate Famous Draupner Freak Wave in Lab for First Time
Freak waves are so called because of their unexpectedly large size relative to the population of smaller waves in which they occur. The 84-foot- (25.6 m) high Draupner wave, observed in the North Sea on the 1st of January 1995, was one of the first confirmed field measurements of a …
Read More »CERN Reveals Plans for Particle Collider Four Times Larger Than LHC
Science requires finesse, but sometimes it also needs more power. CERN took the latter approach when it built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile (27 kilometers) particle accelerator that smashes protons together with so much energy they fracture into subatomic confetti. By studying the remnants of those collisions, …
Read More »Spacetime Geometry near Rotating Black Holes Acts Like Quantum Computer, Physicist Says
According to a theoretical paper published in the Annals of Physics, by Dr. Ovidiu Racorean from the General Direction of Information Technology in Bucharest, Romania, the geometry of spacetime around a rapidly spinning black hole (Kerr black hole) behaves like a quantum computer, and it can encode photons with quantum …
Read More »Specialists Caution Of A Cataclysmic Flip Of Earth’s Magnetic Field As A “Strange Anomaly” Under The Continent Of Africa Causes It To Damage
The Earth’s magnetic field is steadily getting weaker, and researchers are warning that it might quickly flip. If that happens, it will be a cataclysmic occasion beyond anything that we have ever experienced prior to. Obviously many people never even provide much thought to the huge magnetic field that surrounds …
Read More »Universe May Be Riding on Expanding Bubble in Extra Dimension
A team of theoretical physicists at Uppsala University, Sweden, has devised a new model for our Universe — one that may solve the mystery of dark energy, a factor that appears to be causing the Universe’s expansion. Banerjee et al propose a new model with dark energy and our Universe …
Read More »Experimental Physicists Measure Weak Force between Protons and Neutrons in Atom’s Nucleus
Physicists from the NPDGamma Experiment at the DoE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have measured the weak interaction between protons and neutrons in the atom’s core, predicted in the Standard Model that describes the elementary particles and their interactions. The findings appear in the journal Physical Review Letters (arXiv.org preprint). …
Read More »Loop Quantum Gravity Theory Could Answer Fundamental Questions about Black Holes
Loop quantum gravity is a theory that uses quantum mechanics to extend gravitational physics beyond Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Previous work in loop quantum gravity analyzed the quantum nature of the Big Bang, and now two new works, published in the journal Physical Review Letters and the journal Physical …
Read More »Physicists Create Quark-Gluon Plasma Droplets
Physicists from the PHENIX Collaboration have created droplets of a liquid-like state of matter called quark-gluon plasma, forming three distinct shapes and sizes — circles, ellipses and triangles. Visualization of an expanding drop of quark-gluon plasma. Image credit: Javier Orjuela Koop, University of Colorado, Boulder. Scientists believe that quark-gluon plasma …
Read More »Negative-Mass Dark Fluid: Astonishing New Theory Could Explain Universe’s Missing 95%
The standard cosmological model known as LambdaCDM can only explain 5% of the observable Universe. The remaining 95% is famously made up almost entirely of two invisible components called dark matter and dark energy. Yet the physical nature of these two components remains a mystery. A new study by University …
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