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Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh7 Oct 2025
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The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize was awarded for macroscopic quantum tunneling. What is this and what is it good for? I have a brief summary.
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A short och concise elevator-pitch-sized summary by @skdh of today’s announcement of the 2025 #NobelPrize in physics. ”Then - once again - one cannot blame the Swedes for being too predictable.”
Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh7 Oct 2025🇩🇪
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I was quite surprised by this year's physics Nobel Prize.
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Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh10 Sep 2025
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A group of physicists claim they have proof that true randomness exists. This has implications for encryption protocols and computing, but (if true) would also indicate that the past does not determine the present.
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Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh2 Jul 2025
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In today's video I have a look at several recent studies that document how AI us makes us brain-lazy
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"We could be within 5 years of really falsifying Einstein's classical theory."
How? By generating entanglement in an experiment to test quantum gravity!
I'm excited to release a technical deep-dive into how to test quantum features of gravity, explained in an approachable and intuitive way by Prof Vlatko Vedral from the University of Oxford.
We go right from Feynman's original thought experiment about putting a single mass in superposition, to Vlatko and his collaborators' Chiara Marletto & Sougato Bose's recent "BMV" two-mass experimental proposal.
As well as carefully explaining what different scenarios and results tell us about the nature of quantum gravity, Vlatko outlines actual experimental requirements and progress towards implementing this crucial test in the near future.
00:00 Coming Up
02:03 Intro
02:56 Feynman's Single Mass Superposition
12:20 Fake Decoherence
23:07 Interfering Neutrons & Conservation Laws
35:10 Two Masses Thought Experiment
49:23 Coupling gravity and Quantum Field
57:05 Quantumness as Non-Commuting Operators
01:10:47 Experimental Proposals
01:26:46 Challenges and Future Directions
01:35:32 Final Thoughts
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Understand. Don't memorize.
Learn principles, not formulas.
- R. Feynman
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PhD Students - How to write a research proposal?
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A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.
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Newton's 2nd Law of Motion in 3 quick demos:
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Massimo@Rainmaker197324 Jun 2025
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David Ricketts shows what happens when a stream of plasma forms inside a magnetic field.
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One of my hobbies is attending science fiction conventions and telling panelists that quantum entanglement does not enable faster-than-light communications.
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The Casimir Effect is a quantum phenomenon where two uncharged, parallel metal plates placed very close together in a vacuum attract each other. This happens due to quantum fluctuations in the vacuum, showing that even empty space has energy.
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Quantum Entanglement ✍️
Quantum entanglement is when two or more particles become so deeply connected that the state of one instantly determines the state of the other, no matter how far apart they are. This strange connection baffled even Einstein, who called it "spooky action at a distance." While it can’t be used to send information faster than light, entanglement plays a key role in quantum technologies like super-secure communication and powerful quantum computers.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
- Niels Bohr
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The World under a microscope ~ A Thread 🧵
1. Close up into the quantum universe






















