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Mathematician and polymath John von Neumann could speak eight languages by the age of six, including Ancient Greek and Latin. He could divide eight-digit numbers in his head at the age of six. He was familiar with differential and integral calculus by the age of eight. He entered…
This is an actual picture of a molecule taken by IBM created by using a technique called Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). (Credit: IBM)
Oliver Heaviside, a self-taught English mathematician and physicist who reformulated Maxwell's original set of 20 equations into the 4 differential equations known today as Maxwell's equations.
Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon where two or more particles become correlated in such a way that the state of one instantly influences the state of the other, regardless of the distance between them. It challenges classical notions of locality and lies at the heart of…
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - A. Einstein
If these are your lecture students, what would be the topic of your lecture? ✍️
The history of Quantum Physics in one tweet ✍️ 1900: Max Planck introduces the quantum hypothesis to explain black body radiation. 1905: Albert Einstein proposes the light quantum hypothesis to explain the photoelectric effect. 1924: Louis de Broglie suggests particles can…
On July 23, 2015, NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-452b, an exoplanet located 1,400 light-years away. Found by the Kepler space telescope, it's the first near-Earth-sized planet discovered in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star - where liquid water could exist. 📷NASA
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. - Blaise Pascal
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. - Max Planck
Solar Storm of 2012 – A Near Miss ✍️ In July 2012, a massive solar storm (coronal mass ejection) narrowly missed Earth by just 9 days. Had it hit, it could have caused up to $2.6 trillion in global damage, crippling power grids, satellites, and communications. NASA called it a…
Aryabhatta wrote his most famous treatise, Aryabhatiya, when he was only 23 years old. It contains 121 verses on various topics of mathematics and astronomy, such as the value of pi, the solution of quadratic equations, the calculation of eclipses, and the motion of planets.
I lie on the beach like a crocodile and let myself be roasted by the sun. I never see a newspaper and don't give a damn for what is called the world. -- Einstein's 1918 letter to Max Born
How do you think AI will impact physics and mathematics over the next ten years? ✍️
Eugene Wigner on what 'matters' in science ✍️
Physics Photo Of the Day: Physicists Werner Heisenberg and Eugene Wigner (1928). Photographed by G F Hund.
He is best known for being the first to accurately measure the distance to a star — 61 Cygni — using the method of stellar parallax in 1838. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, born today in 1784, was a German astronomer and mathematician who made foundational contributions to modern…
