Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Working on particle physics, quantum sensors, dark matter. Associate Prof at @IPPP_Durham @durham_uni, FLF @UKRI_News, Science board member @STFC_Matters
Speaking as a first-born, I want to point out the importance of error bars before jumping to bold conclusions
First born children have higher IQ than their siblings.
The recent success of both OpenAI’s language model and DeepMind’s Gemini at the International Mathematical Olympiad is truly remarkable. The engineers have every reason to be proud of what they've accomplished. And AI will continue to improve when working with patterns it has…
Definitely an experimentalist
god is a quantum field theorist.
I’ll start worrying about AI taking everyone’s jobs when it replaces the people whose job is to warn that AI will take everyone’s jobs
AI can identify 4 photons in LHC events, even if two of them are so close together they look like one
One photon short! CMS breaks new ground by using AI to hunt for exotic Higgs boson decays. ⚛️ Read more: cms.cern/news/one-photo… #science #HiggsBoson #particlephysics
10^100 shrimps have a combined mass about 10⁴⁵ times greater than all the matter in the known Universe, which would reverse the expansion and collapse the Universe in a fraction of a second
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
Quantum mechanics in your face
anyone who knows this guy is a friend without an introduction.
Recommendations for great math and science books for children and young (or old) adults I’ll start: The Number Devil by Enzensberger Sparks curiosity for mathematics in children. Great to read aloud (terrible for getting them to sleep) Be ready for many, many questions!
Do schoolchildren still come across math and science books in their libraries and get drawn in?
Imagine you don't and you have exactly one lifetime to understand the Universe
Imagine this. When you die, you get a life review where you are confronted with all the emotions you triggered in other people. All intellectual achievements are disregarded, as you'll get the answers to all the intellectual questions you have. Be/stay kind besides ambitious.🙏
In my first year of college, I came across a remarkable book in our school library. Although I had already studied vectors in high school, I thought to myself, since this book is from MIR Publishers, it must be worth my time. When I opened it, it was love at first sight. The…
In 35 picoseconds light travels ~1 cm in vacuum
This tray is part of the CMS MIP Timing Detector (MTD), to be installed around the Tracker for the Hi-Lumi LHC upgrade. With ~35 ps time resolution, it will help CMS maintain event reconstruction accuracy even with 5x more collisions. 🏆MTD Image of the Month 📸A. Benaglia
The idea that you have to push against something to accelerate is one of the most common misconceptions
How can Superman blowing air into a black hole create any push? A black hole is a void—what would the air even push against? #DumbWriting
Physics
What project would you be happy to devote 50 years of your life to, despite (or because of) it only being 10% done when you die? Ht @hannu @gwern and Antoni Gaudi for inspiring the question