My Take On Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory

Soon after Stephen Hawking died in 2018, his collaborator Thomas Hertog published his posthumous “final theory.” Basically, the theory builds on the idea of eternal inflation, which says that new universes are constantly being created from an even-larger sea of quantum fluctuations. Hawking’s theory sought to explain that these births happened more gradually and less disruptively, bringing the theory closer to what we observe in our universe. How groundbreaking is this theory really? Let’s take a look.

The Earth’s Core Is A Massive Helium Reserve, Researchers Claim

The world is slowly running out of Helium, and has already seen four helium shortages. It’s a problem because Helium is essential in the creation of microchips, and we need plenty of those to keep artificial intelligence running. Luckily – and surprisingly – researchers have recently published a paper claiming that the Earth’s core is actually full of the stuff. Let’s take a look.

Neutrino Measurement Supports Hawking’s Black Hole Theory

A few months ago, sensors detected a neutrino traveling through the Mediterranean Sea with 100 peta-electronvolts worth of energy. Some researchers claim that this event proves that Stephen Hawking’s theory of black hole evaporation is correct. Does this make sense? Let’s take a look.

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Researchers find major clue to consciousness

We still don’t know what “consciousness” actually means. But in a new study, researchers have used the equations of quantum mechanics to determine a brain’s “criticality,” a measure which allows them to separate waking brains from sleeping ones. I think they’re onto something. Let’s take a look.

This New Device Creates Electricity From Earth’s Magnetic Field

You would think that the title of “the world’s laziest power source” would go to solar panels, but scientists have successfully tested an even lazier power source that generates power from the Earth’s magnetic field. It doesn’t even need to go outside! Sounds too good to be true? Let’s take a look.

How I Became Particle Physicists’ Enemy #1

When I started my career in physics, I didn’t plan on becoming particle physicists’ enemy number one, but somehow I have. Here’s how it all happened.

The Entire Universe Seems to Spin, New Data Reveal

A new study has found that the universe might be spinning. What does that even mean? Let’s have a look.



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The Nuclear Renaissance Faces a Problem: Reality

All across the globe, new nuclear power plants are being built and some shuttered plants are even being revived as countries look for more ways to create clean, cheap electricity. But the nuclear renaissance faces problems.

Why CERN’s New Collider Plans are Dead on Arrival

CERN wants to build a new particle collider which will smash protons together at roughly 6 times the energies seen at the Large Hadron Collider. This project is likely to cost more than $40 billion and wouldn’t be operational until the 2070s. Let’s take a look at why a growing number of physicists are saying we’d be better off without it.

New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)

AI industry leaders are promising that we will soon have algorithms that can think smarter and faster than humans. But according to a new paper published by researchers from AI firm Anthropic, current AI is incapable of understanding its own “thought processes.” This means it’s not near anything you could call conscious. Let’s take a look.

No, Matt, this is no crisis

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I find it extremely distressing that we are still discussing this even though it's abundantly clear that naturalness arguments have historically worked extremely badly. It's a pseudo-scientific method that physicists need to stop using.

We Already Have Evidence Of Dark Matter, Researchers Say

Physicists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter for decades, but it’s eluded them… up until now, maybe. According to a group of astrophysicists, the key to detecting dark matter is actually hidden in an anomaly at the center of the Milky Way, one that scientists first detected over a decade ago. But are they right? Let’s take a look.



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Why US Professors are talking about facism

The political situation at US-American campuses has been developing quickly, with some claiming that Trump’s actions are signs of facism, dictatorship, or authoritarianism. Today I have a quick summary of what has happened in the past weeks.

First Nuclear Fusion Powered Rocket Design Unveiled

The company Pulsar Fusion recently unveiled their design plans for a new nuclear fusion powered rocket. This idea isn’t as crazy as you think – let’s have a look.

Amazon’s Quantum Breakthrough That Everyone Missed

While Microsoft’s Majorana quantum computing chip might have grabbed all the headlines earlier this year, Amazon appears to have quietly made some big progress in the quantum computing race. Their new Ocelot chip uses cat qubits to support a scalable architecture that reduces errors by up to 90%. What does that mean? Let’s take a look.

Huge Structures Discovered Under Pyramids?

On March 15, a group of researchers revealed some crazy news: using a new type of radar imaging technology, they claimed to have discovered new “internal artificial structures” beneath Egypt's three Great Pyramids in Giza. The structures supposedly included eight cylinders surrounded by constructs resembling spiral staircases. Does their radar imaging tech actually work? And if so, are those "structures" real? Let's find out.

Cosmology Crises are only Getting Worse

Cosmology, the branch of physics that deals with the universe, is facing a bit of a crisis right now. Four crises, actually. Let’s take a look at the biggest problems with our current understanding of the universe and how we got here to begin with.



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US Military Wants to Grow Biological Structures in Space

Last month, DARPA published a call for proposals on how to “grow” massive biological structures in space. It’s not as crazy as it sounds: The space race is heating up outside of the weird space biology sector. Some startups are building self-assembling space habitats, others are working on spaceports, and the ISS’s successor is in development. Let’s take a look.

New Nuclear Waste Battery Can Run For 5000 Years

Researchers from the U.K. have created a new prototype battery made out of nuclear waste by turning the irradiated graphite shielding of nuclear reactor cores into crystals. The new batteries, according to the researchers, will produce energy for up to 5,000 years. Let’s take a look.

Ex Google CEO Calls For Mutually Assured AI-Destruction

The promise of AI is that we humans might one day build something smarter than ourselves. But because we’re humans, chances are that we will first use it to gain power and spark conflicts. Luckily, according to a new “Superintelligence Strategy,” —authored, among others by Google’s ex-CEO Eric Schmidt—we’re well on the way to Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), sort of like the “Mutually Assured Destruction” of nuclear war. Let’s take a look.