When you swap two paraparticles, these hidden properties change in tandem. As an analogy, imagine that these properties are colors. Start with two paraparticles, one that’s internally red and another that’s internally blue. When they swap places, rather than keeping these colors, they both change in corresponding ways, as prescribed by the mathematics of the… Continue reading ‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle
Earth’s Mysterious Inner Core Is Changing Shape
February 11, 2025 2 min read Earth’s Mysterious Inner Core Is Changing Shape Earth’s core is transforming, which could affect the length of our 24-hour day, Earth’s magnetic field, and more By Alexandra Witze & Nature magazine Earth’s inner core was long considered to be completely solid, but research has shown that it can be… Continue reading Earth’s Mysterious Inner Core Is Changing Shape
Waste of the Day: Layoffs at “Luxurious” Federal Agency
Topline: The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, one of seven small agencies ordered to reduce its workforce in President Donald Trump’s March 15 executive order, had a payroll of $28.6 million in 2024, according to data obtained by OpenTheBooks. Of the agency’s 200 employees, 164 earned between $100,000 and $204,000. All but 15 employees have… Continue reading Waste of the Day: Layoffs at “Luxurious” Federal Agency
The Mystery of Parapsychology
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The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping
Nothing is certain in the quantum realm. A particle, for example, can exist in multiple quantum states simultaneously. The same goes for a quantum bit, or qubit — the basic unit of information used in quantum computing. The act of measurement causes these objects to collapse into a single state, and usually the best you… Continue reading The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping
In North Carolina, Academic Conservatives Have Met the Enemy and It Is … Them
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Like the other programs launched at universities around the country to revive the classical liberal arts and America’s founding principles, the University of North Carolina’s School of Civic Life and Leadership has faced fierce antagonism from entrenched faculty and administrators. Mostly, the opposition comes from academics on the left who typically… Continue reading In North Carolina, Academic Conservatives Have Met the Enemy and It Is … Them
A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting
For any closed, compact surface — that is, a surface that is finite in diameter and has a distinct inside and outside — mean curvature flow is destined to lead to a singularity. (For a simple sphere, this singularity is the final point the surface shrinks to.) “We have this flow that is supposed to… Continue reading A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting
Trump and the Economics of Statecraft
The Trump administration’s reciprocal tariffs have engendered stock markets to panic and U.S. trading partners and Trump’s domestic political opponents to complain about harmful “trade wars.” Some partisan economists have compared Trump’s tariffs to the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which is often blamed for prolonging the Great Depression, although Amity Shales among others have… Continue reading Trump and the Economics of Statecraft
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
“I had got disillusioned with the state of the art of looking for life on other worlds,” Wong said. “I thought it was too narrowly constrained to life as we know it here on Earth, but life elsewhere may take a completely different evolutionary trajectory. So how do we abstract far enough away from life… Continue reading Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
Trump Spending Freeze on Rural Electric Co-ops Could Raise Energy Costs
CLIMATEWIRE | Billions of dollars for rural electric cooperatives are stuck in limbo as the Department of Agriculture continues the Trump administration’s funding freeze, despite federal court orders. The Empowering Rural America program — also known as New ERA, a $9.7 billion grant and loan program created by the Inflation Reduction Act — has been… Continue reading Trump Spending Freeze on Rural Electric Co-ops Could Raise Energy Costs