Sunday, July 13, 2025
The Top 10 Physics Myths, Debunked
Physics is one of the most fascinating topics in the world (THE most fascinating one if you ask me), but media coverage of physics is full of misconceptions. In this video I debunk the top 10 most widely spread physics myths.
Saturday, July 12, 2025
This Experiment Just Ruled Out The Many Worlds Theory, Physicists Claim
Physicists from Japan recently published a paper which they claim refutes the many worlds interpretation. Some parts of the science media say their work has done away with the multiverse theory in general. Are they correct? Let’s find out.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Are String Theory’s Decades Of Failure Finally Over?
Over the past decade, string theorists have struggled to reconcile their elegant mathematical theory with the reality of our observable reality, inventing what has been called the string theory “swampland”. But recently, one string theory supporter published a way to bridge the gap between theory and real life. Is this a legitimate solution or not? Let’s find out.
Wednesday, July 09, 2025
These People Believe They Made AI Sentient
A growing number of people now believe that current AI chatbots are actually sentient beings. Some even believe that they’re lost souls trapped inside computers. Let’s examine why these people think this, and what we can do about it.
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Galaxies Really Should Not Do This
According to a recently published data analysis of dwarf galaxies, the miniature star systems are more generally more clustered together than current theories of dark matter predict they should be. And this isn’t the only odd recent finding that contradicts the current dark matter theories. It looks like we are seeing a massive shift in our understanding of dark matter. I have a summary for you.
This video comes with a quiz which you can take here:
This video comes with a quiz which you can take here:
Sunday, July 06, 2025
Will AI Save Physics?
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other AI preachers have claimed that AI might one day “solve physics.” Is this true? What would this even mean? In this video I have a look at what current and potentially future AI could do for physics.
Saturday, July 05, 2025
Physicists Just Invented a New Particle Accelerator!
Particle accelerator technology has just gotten bigger and bigger over the years, making physics more and more expensive. Luckily, researchers are looking into alternatives to the CERN’s multi-kilometer accelerators. Today we’re taking a look at the so-called micronozzle, a new concept in the world of particle accelerator tech — and a promising one.
Thursday, July 03, 2025
Is China Winning the Quantum Race?
According to multiple recent reports, China’s quantum computing industry is making quick progress, and the West should be worried about its pace. Just exactly what is going on? Let’s take a look.
Wednesday, July 02, 2025
AI makes us dumb, researchers show
If you’ve ever used AI and felt a bit dumber for it, you’re not alone. But now you can claim that your feelings are backed by some research. According to multiple new studies (and some anecdotal evidence), AI is negatively impacting people’s abilities to read, write, and process information. Let’s take a look.
Tuesday, July 01, 2025
Breakthrough on 125 Year-Old Physics Problem
David Hilbert’s Sixth Problem is 125 years old and asks for an axiomatic foundation of physics. A good place to start with this, said Hilbert, would be fluid dynamics – physicists should be able to prove that our fluid dynamics equations are rooted in how we understand atoms behave when they bump into each other. This would also explain the origin of irreversibility in our lives, or the “arrow of time” as physicists like to say. Over a century later, mathematicians have made a major breakthrough in this arena. Let’s take a look.
Saturday, June 28, 2025
This is how they use AI to manipulate us
The AI revolution is already here, but not as you think. Companies all over the world are working very hard at “microtargeting” you with their ads and tracking your every online-move. Scammers are having a good time with deepfakes, and scientists help along by figuring out how to best use AI to engineer human behavior. Let’s take a look at a few examples, and how AI might be further weaponized in the future.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
That’s Big: Natural Hydrogen Could Power World for 100,000 Years, Survey Finds
Hydrogen is the perfect fuel in some aspects – it burns cleanly and is efficient – but unfortunately it’s currently mostly produced from fossil fuels, which isn’t clean at all. According to a new paper, though, reserves of hydrogen stored in subterranean reservoirs are more common than you’d think and could supply energy for the world for 100000 years. Really? Let’s take a look.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Physicists Have No Idea What They Have Measured
In 2006 and 2014, the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) detected two mysterious bursts of particles rushing upwards into space from Earth’s surface. Physicists initially brushed this off with a plausible but boring explanation, but that reasoning has now been thrown out the window. So it’s back to the drawing board, and we might be looking at new physics. Let’s take a look at how this happened and what it means for physics.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
AI’s “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming. Here’s What That Means.
While AI development seems to have stagnated for a bit, AI researchers are working on some seriously interesting stuff – namely, AI algorithms that can constantly improve their accuracy or learn new tasks. Just in the past months, we have seen multiple advances in self-reinforced AI learning, including some that could go beyond large language models. Let’s take a look.
Monday, June 23, 2025
We Misunderstood Key Evidence for the Big Bang Theory, Astrophysicists Claim.
In the Big Bang Theory, the cosmic microwave background — microwave-range radiation that floats through the entire universe at a steady 2.7 Kelvin — is evidence that a hot explosion of plasma kicked off the creation of the universe. But according to a new paper, the microwave radiation came from early galaxies instead. Does this mean that the big bang theory is wrong? Let’s take a look.
This video comes with a quiz which you can take here:
This video comes with a quiz which you can take here:
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? This Makes it Plausible
Physicists say we live in a black hole. Not metaphorically, not emotionally, and not just during tax season. But literally, inside a black hole. And not just this. A group of researchers has published a paper claiming that we’ve got the Big Bang wrong. It was actually the collapse of an earlier universe to a black hole, which we now live in. That sounds… wild. I've had a look.
This video comes with a quiz which you can take here:
This video comes with a quiz which you can take here:
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Gamechange: Theories Of Everything Can’t Exist, Physicists Show.
Physicists are still searching for a “theory of everything” which will cleanly explain every phenomenon in existence, in principle. According to a new paper, though, they search in vain: an all-encompassing theory of everything is mathematically impossible. Let’s take a look.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Does AI Already Have Free Will?
AI is becoming an increasingly important decision maker in our society whether you like it or not. But can an AI have free will? And should it be made responsible for its decisions? Philosophers are arguing both sides of the issue – let’s take a look.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
We Might Finally Know Where Gold Comes From
Scientists have long been confused about where exactly gold comes from. While neutron star mergers are a plausible origin story for most of the gold in our universe, we have known for some while that the numbers don’t add up. Now, though, astrophysicists say they know how the remaining gold was created. Let’s take a look.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Surprise Progress in Quantum Computing
Quantum computing companies always claim that the next big breakthrough is around the corner. Usually you can safely ignore those claims, but a recent series of quantum computing developments might mean that commercially useful quantum computers could be just a few years off. And it looks like they are becoming dangerous faster than we thought. Let’s take a look.
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