Archive for the ‘physics’ category: Page 148
Mar 22, 2022
Elon Musk Thinks Destinus Technology Will Soon End The War Against Russia, Know How
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: business, drones, Elon Musk, physics, robotics/AI, space travel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vhiYHdMnK44
Mikhail Kokorich is the founder of Destinus. This serial entrepreneur has been dubbed Russia’s Elon Musk by his public relations team. The Russian businessman says his business, Destinus, is developing a hydrogen-powered, zero-emissions transcontinental delivery drone that can travel at speeds up to Mach 15.
Destinus plans to combine the technological advancements from a spaceplane with the ordinary and straightforward physics from a glider to create a hyperplane that will meet the many demands of a hyper-connected world.
Mar 22, 2022
Study claims an ‘anti-universe’ where time is backwards may exist next to ours
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: physics, space
An “anti-universe” where time runs backwards could exist next to ours, according to a new study.
The theory involves the fact nature has fundamental symmetries and researchers think this could apply to the universe as a whole.
The theory has been explained in the journal Annals of Physics.
Mar 22, 2022
Researcher documents what happened during the first attempt at a gravitational-wave observatory in Europe
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: physics
First predicted in Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime generated by titanic and powerful cosmic events. The great physicist believed that no equipment would ever be sensitive to detect these faint cosmic ripples. Fortunately, Einstein was wrong, but that doesn’t mean that the detection of gravitational waves has been easy.
The history of a planned array interferometer gravitational wave detectors to be built in Europe during the late 1980s, the reasons this failed, and the parallels with current detectors, are documented in a new paper published in The European Physical Journal H, authored by Adele La Rana, University of Verona, and INFN Section of Sapienza University, Italy.
La Rana explains that following the announcement of the first detections of gravitational waves by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration in 2016 and 2017, questions arose regarding “the missed opportunity” of having an array of two or more long-based GW interferometers in Europe.
Mar 22, 2022
Scientists unveiled the largest number of gravitational waves ever detected
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: cosmology, physics
Universe has an abundance of gravitational wave sources. Recently, an international team of scientists unveiled a tsunami of gravitational waves. This discovery is the most significant number of gravitational waves ever detected.
Scientists detected 35 new gravitational waves. These waves were formed by merging black holes or neutron stars and black holes smashing together. The observation was made by the LIGO and Virgo observatories between November 2019 and March 2020.
This brings the total number of detections to 90 after three observing runs between 2015 and 2020.
Mar 21, 2022
Optimality in natural physics: Revisiting Classic dynamics from Optimal control
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: physics
A Dynamic Programming approach.
We also point out an observation that will be the topic of this post. Classic dynamics system is a solution of an optimal control problem.
Mar 20, 2022
Physicists Startled To Discover a New Way To Shape a Material’s Atomic Structure With Light
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: materials, physics
X-ray laser experiments show that intense light distorts the structure of a thermoelectric material in a unique way, opening a new avenue for controlling the properties of materials.
Thermoelectric materials convert heat to electricity and vice versa, and their atomic structures are closely related to how well they perform.
Now researchers have discovered how to change the atomic structure of a highly efficient thermoelectric material, tin selenide, with intense pulses of laser light. This result opens a new way to improve thermoelectrics and a host of other materials by controlling their structure, creating materials with dramatic new properties that may not exist in nature.
Mar 18, 2022
Physicists Think They’ve Finally Cracked Stephen Hawking’s Famous Black Hole Paradox
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: cosmology, physics
Scientists say they have solved one of the biggest paradoxes in science first identified by Prof Stephen Hawking.
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Mar 18, 2022
“Active Matter” Breakthrough Enables Shape-Shifting Next-Generation Robots
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: physics, robotics/AI
Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. The research, led by the University of Bath, is described in a paper published on March 11, 2022, in Science Advances.
Authors of the study believe their breakthrough modeling on ‘active matter’ could mark a turning point in the design of robots. With further development of the concept, it may be possible to determine the shape, movement, and behavior of a soft solid not by its natural elasticity but by human-controlled activity on its surface.
Mar 17, 2022
Archeologists Are Planning To Scan the Great Pyramid of Giza With Cosmic Rays — They Should See Every Hidden Chamber Inside
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: energy, physics
The Great Pyramid of Giza might be the most iconic structure humans ever built. Ancient civilizations constructed archaeological icons that are a testament to their greatness and persistence. But in some respects, the Great Pyramid stands alone. Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only the Great Pyramid stands relatively intact.
A team of scientists will use advances in High Energy Physics (HIP) to scan the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza with cosmic-ray muons. They want to see deeper into the Great Pyramid than ever before and map its internal structure. The effort is called the Explore the Great Pyramid (EGP) mission.
The Great Pyramid of Giza has stood since the 26th century BC. It’s the tomb of the Pharoah Khufu, also known as Cheops. Construction took about 27 years, and it was built with about 2.3 million blocks of stone—a combination of limestone and granite—weighing in at about 6 million tons. For over 3,800 years, it was the tallest human-made structure in the world. We see now only the underlying core structure of the Great Pyramid. The smooth white limestone casing was removed over time.