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How Close Are We to Superconductors That Are Actually Practical? (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-19 | get Anker portable freezer thermoelectric cooler → | tags: superconductors, physics, superconductivity

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How good are frontier models at physics? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | get University Physics with Modern Physics Young Freedman → | tags: frontier models, physics, benchmark

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The World Would Be Psychedelic as Hell If the Speed of Light Was Way Slower (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: speed of light, physics simulation, relativity

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The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | tags: paul dirac, mathematics, physics

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The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | tags: paul dirac, mathematics, physics

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Cherenkov Radiation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-11 | get uranium glass marble UV reactive → | tags: cherenkov radiation, radiation, physics

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Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-10 | get Sean Carroll Biggest Ideas in the Universe book → | tags: sean carroll, physics, universe

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Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver” (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-10 | get Star Trek The Next Generation complete series Blu-ray → | tags: star trek, picard maneuver, relativity

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This Photon Survived an ‘Impossible’ Journey to Earth. To Explain it, Physicists Had to Break Einstein (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-09 | tags: photon, einstein, physics

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The secret to protecting next-gen spacecraft might be eggshells (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-08 | get Stuff Matters Mark Miodownik book → | tags: space debris, eggshells, aluminum material

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CERN is moving more than 2,200 specialized computers from RHEL to Debian (techspot.com)

2026-09-05 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Raspberry Pi 5 desktop kit → | tags: cern, red hat enterprise linux, debian

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Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | get Celestron NexStar 130SLT telescope → | tags: einstein, gravity, quantum physics

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Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-02 | tags: dark matter, detector, particle

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The Download: AI puzzles and a path to our nearest star system (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-02 | by Thomas Macaulay | get New York Times Connections card game → | tags: fermi explorer, alpha centauri, psi physics

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The Wormhole Hall of Shame (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-31 | by .Wp-Block-Post-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box | get Black Holes and Time Warps Kip Thorne book → | tags: einstein-rosen bridge, wormhole depiction, science fiction

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The Universe as a Minified Bundle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-31 | get Feynman Lectures on Physics boxed set → | tags: universe.js, pebibytes, source maps

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Order from disorder: do we need a new law of physics? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-31 | by Shields | get Time's Second Arrow Hazen Wong book → | tags: second law thermodynamics, entropy, mineralogist hazen

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The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting a Major Upgrade. But What Would Actually Surprise Physicists? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-27 | get Particle Physics A Very Short Introduction Frank Close → | tags: large hadron collider, physics, upgrade

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My Friend Aaron (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-25 | by Rory Mcmeekin | get Logitech G502 HERO gaming mouse → | tags: world of warcraft, prime minister, physics exam

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Quantum battery upends the rules of charging (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-25 | by Laurie Clarke | get Anker PowerCore 10000 portable charger → | tags: quantum battery, superabsorption, classical physics

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These Whale Calls Appear to Break Physics, but the Truth Is Even Weirder (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: whale calls, physics, special relativity

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From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: quantum relative entropy, semiclassical einstein equations, quantum physics

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Daily briefing: New evidence of the mysterious ‘glueballs’ (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-13 | by Smith | tags: glueballs, gluons, high energy physics

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Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes. (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: beijing spectrometer, glueballs, quantum chromodynamics

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Behold the 'Glueball,' a Strange New Form of Matter (slashdot.org)

2026-08-12 | tags: glueball, gluons, particle collider

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A particle made of force: physicists say they’ve found mysterious ‘glueball’ (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Basu | tags: glueball, gluons, besiii

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The mathematical physics of rainbows and glories (2001) [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: rainbows, glories, mathematical physics

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The mathematical physics of rainbows and glories(2001) [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: rainbows, glories, mathematical physics

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Despite global turmoil, Gen Z researchers are not giving up (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-10 | by Rodrigues | tags: helmholtz-zentrum dresden, ion beam physics, quantum materials

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An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/F Noise (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by Steve Smith | tags: fourier transform, power law, gamma function