#Schwebend geht diese Woche bei @norberteder's #52WochenFotoChallenge zu Ende. Schönen zweiten Advent 😊

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I love it when you can literally touch physics. I needed to do so to lift just this element up to the center of the frame 😎

#floating #galileoThermometer #temperature #inside #physics #photography #darktable #paperg

Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider

In search of quantum advantage — the ability of a quantum computer to outperform classical computers on certain tasks — physicists began to look for entangled states that differed as much as possible from stabilizer states. These states earned the name magic states.

#LargeHadronCollider #LHC #physics #science #quantum #entanglement #technology #tech

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Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider | Quanta Magazine

The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

^{Shalma Wegsman (Quanta Magazine)}

WOW. This was an outstanding episode of Veritasium on the Power Law probability distributions (i.e. probability distributions described by an *exponential* relationship between the variables). I never realized these types of probability distributions are so common, and that they behave in such similar ways to each other.

Even more bizarrely to me, there appear to be many systems in nature that *spontaneously* organize themselves in a way to exhibit Power Law probability distributions. In fact, I suspect that “black swan” events are possibly a symptom of mistakenly perceiving a Power Law distribution phenomenon as one exhibiting a Normal or even Log-Normal distribution.

#math #physics #probabilities #blackSwan

youtube.com/watch?v=HBluLfX2F_…

Just eight days ago, I gave a popular science talk at mpi_grav@academiccloud.social about colorful phenomena in the sky, and now – boom!

Just minutes ago, there were beautiful iridescent clouds (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_ir…) here, north of Hanover, Germany.

Here, light is diffracted by tiny droplets in the clouds, creating these typical mother-of-pearl colors.

#Light #Physics #Photography #NaturePhotography #Diffraction #AtmosphericOptics