Some people believe in a watchmaker God who spun up at the universe and then stepped away. At what point do you think God would have been satisfied?

#ants
#atoms
#peanutbutter
#God

Does #Space require #DarkEnergy in order to exist? : Medium

#Atoms on the #Edge : MIT

#Quantum #Time #Travel: The experiment to 'send a particle into the past' : New Sci

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Did you know we're essentially all #STARS? That is to say, we’re actually the children of stars!

How does it feel to have stars for parents?

https://bigthink.com/the-past/how-we-discovered-were-all-made-of-star-stuff/
(You can skip to the last paragraph :)

90% of the atoms in our bodies were forged in stars - elements like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and iron. The remaining 10% comes from the Big Bang - the universe's first moments which created the lightest elements, hydrogen and helium.

Thanks for sharing, Professor Erika Hamden!

Atom arrays

Scientists have developed ways of trapping atoms and arranging them in space using laser beams (such as “optical tweezers” and “optical lattices”). What can one do using these tools? One possibility is arranging the atoms in a regular array.

Why people find it interesting? It was found that such systems have properties much different than clouds of atoms randomly flying around. The lattice structure changes how the atoms emit and absorb light. This is because light emitted from different atoms can interfere, and a regular structure of array works like a diffraction grating. This happens especially if the distance between atoms is smaller than one wavelength.

For example, a 1D chain of atoms in a certain state emits light only on its ends. And a 2D array can act as a perfect mirror (for certain wavelength), even though it is only one atom thin.

It was theoretically shown that these effects can be used to boost the efficiency of optical quantum devices such as memories and gates, which may be used in the future for a “quantum internet” and quantum computers.

#Physics #Science #Quantum #QuantumOptics #atoms #CondensedMatter #CondMat

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#nanomaterial first synthesized in 2017 that is made up of tiny chains of tellurium #atoms and has properties useful in sensing, #electronic, #optical and energy devices.
#MaterialScience #Nanotechnology #Physics #Photonics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/01/ms01142501.html

We are all made up

Elementary Magic
Allison Swenson

#Poetry #AllisonSwenson #ElementaryMagic #Atoms

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1639268/elementary-magic

The quantum reason behind the solidity of matter – Big Think…

If atoms are mostly empty space, then why can’t two objects made of atoms simply pass through each other? Quantum physics explains why... #particlephysics #quantumphysics #science #matter #atoms

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2024/12/22/the-quantum-reason-behind-the-solidity-of-matter-big-think/

This is lots of fun. ‘Uncleftish Beholding’ is a 1989 attempt to explain ‘Atomic Theory’ without using words that come to English from Latin, French or Greek roots.

It reimagines English as Germanic: ‘uncleft’ is ‘atom’ etc.

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/1100/docs/uncleftish-beholding.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

The quantum reason behind the solidity of matter – Big Think…

If atoms are mostly empty space, then why can’t two objects made of atoms simply pass through each other? Quantum physics explains why... #particlephysics #quantumphysics #science #matter #atoms

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/the-quantum-reason-behind-the-solidity-of-matter-big-think-2/

 
#Quantum device #physicist Dominic Walliman introduces his Map of #QuantumPhysics & a brief overview of the subject.

…"Quantum objects have a minimum energy known as #zero #point #energy. And this applies not only to #electrons & #atoms, but to #everything, including #space itself"…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAFAj3pzvAA 22 min.
https://dominicwalliman.com

#TEDed: What is #Quantum #Entanglement?

…"The everyday world you know and love behaves according to the laws of #ClassicalMechanics. But systems on the scale of #atoms behave according to the laws of #QuantumMechanics. This Quantum World turns out to be a very strange place. An illustration of Quantum Strangeness is given by a famous thought experiment. Schrödinger's Cat"…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1GCnycbMeA 21 Aug 2014

Passionate Machines

https://new.exchristian.net/2024/08/passionate-machines.html

As #scientific advancements unveil the mysteries of the universe, it becomes increasingly evident that everything appears to operate mechanistically. #Atoms, #molecules, #stars, #planets, #cells, and #biological systems are fundamentally mechanical. If the existence of a #supernatural, invisible soul within my body is negated, then it is undeniable that I too am a machine.

#AnthonyAguirre - What Exists?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8jFbNXdL4

…"#TimeCrystals are only 12 years old as a concept, and … may not exist in nature anywhere in the universe. This example of a many-body state happens when multiple #atoms are stimulated by a #laser … and settled into an #asymmetrical lower state in terms of time. They can, theoretically, keep moving #forever"…
by Caroline Delbert for #PopularMechanics

https://popularmechanics.com/science/a61645298/scientists-created-room-temperature-time-crystals/ 22 Jul 2024

 …"#MIT physicists have shown they can significantly amplify #quantum changes in #atomic vibrations, by putting the #particles through two key processes: #quantumentanglement and time reversal.

Before you start shopping for #DeLoreans, no, they haven’t found a way to reverse time itself … [They've] manipulated quantumly entangled #atoms in a way that the particles behaved as if they were evolving backward in time"…
https://news.MIT.edu/2022/quantum-time-reversal-physics-0714 14 Jul 2022

"Using ultrafast, atom-at-a-time methods, researchers are starting to explore this unmapped region of the periodic table and finding it as fantastical as any medieval cartographer’s imaginings."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superheavy-elements-are-breaking-the-periodic-table/