Fluorescence image of Bose-Einstein-Condensate. Image Credits: Stefan Kuhr and Immanuel Bloch, MPQ String theory is infamously detache...

Noise is the physicists’ biggest enemy. Unless you are a theorist whose pet idea masquerades as noise. Then you are best friends with noise....

I have a headache and blame Nature magazine for it. For about 15 years, I have worked on quantum gravity phenomenology, which means I st...

I’m back from Cambridge, where I attended the conference “Gravity and Black Holes” in honor of Stephen Hawking’s 75th birthday. First t...

Numbers speak. [Img Src ] Once upon a time, we had problems in the foundations of physics. Then we solved them. That was 40 years ago. T...

I’ll be traveling the next two weeks. First to Cambridge to celebrate Stephen Hawking’s 75th birthday ( which was in January ), then in Tri...

“Hi Bee, One of the often repeated phrases here in Italy by so called “science enthusiasts” is that “science is not democratic”, which to ...

Galaxy pumpkin. Src: The Swell Designer According to physics, the universe and everything in it can be explained by but a handful of equ...

Clockworks. [ Img via dwan1509 ]. High energy physics has phases. I don’t mean phases like matter has – solid, liquid, gaseous and so on...

“Dear Sabine, my names [-------]. I'm an anxiety sufferer of the unknown and have been for 4 years. I've recently came across some...

An oscillator too. Source: Giphy . Tl;dr: Ask me again in ten years. A lot of people asked for my opinion about a paper by Wang, Zhu,...

Tl;dr: Yes, but the testable cases aren’t the most plausible ones. It’s the year 2017, but we still don’t know how space and time get...

Gravitational Waves, Computer simulation. Credits: Henze, NASA Tl;dr: Probably not. Last week I learned from New Scientist that “ Gr...