Saffron Huang

saffron.bsky.social

26 January 2025 23:52

Reviving my Substack to try to describe something that is very difficult to describe (a near death experience 20 years after it happened) saffron.substack.com/p/something-...

Michael Nielsen

michaelnielsen.bsky.social

21 January 2025 04:26

It's interesting, actually. When I first heard of Murdoch's notion I didn't think much of it. But it's really stayed with me, and grown

Leo C. Stein

duetosymmetry.com

19 January 2025 23:35

🔭🧪 Just remembered something Eddie Farhi said in recitation for GR class: Eddie: "Do you know why the moon and sun are the same size in the sky?" Students: "?? It's just an accident of Earth's history." Eddie: "No. It's because God loves us and wants us to know general relativity is correct."

Diptarka Hait

fullcialchemist.bsky.social

19 January 2025 03:55

Have you wondered when a chemical bond breaks? We propose that polarizability maxima vs dissociation coordinates are ideal cutoff points, since they mark the onset of bonding electron localization. Read more in our recent publication in Angew. Chem.: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ChemSky

Nicole Yunger Halpern

nicoleyh11.bsky.social

07 January 2025 17:48

Am I weird to adore entropy and the second law of thermodynamics, typically associated with decay and decline? At least Zach Savitsky takes a similarly rosy view in this @quantamagazine.bsky.social article. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...