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- Definitions and Summary of Soul Monism
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- Sanskrit Pronunciation Key
- Suresh Emre at Medium
- So far
- Have mercy, my God!
- Random Article
- Being closer to God is the highest happiness
- Central Doctrine of Spirituality
- Beauty is the reward itself
- Confinement and Liberation
- Suresh Emre at Academia.edu
- Common (Cosmic) Reference
- Cognitive and Creative
- Duality Types of a Monist Worldview
- Cognitive Core
- Conceptual frameworks for fundamental physics
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Recent Posts
- New findings on the mechanical properties of the proton
- On Categorization
- 2024 update on the location of the magnetic north pole
- Saturation of AI creativity in the future
- Assembly Theory, Integrated Information Theory
- Invariants
- Atlas of nearby galaxies
- Mind Atoms
- Is spin=1/2 an indication of maximum confinement?
- Experimental value of muon g-2 updated
- Top 100
- History of FERMILAB by Valerie Higgins
- Update on electron’s electric dipole moment
- Few Trends (2)
- Update on major US accelerator projects
- Free textbooks in the field of particle physics
- Is interaction a computation?
- Why is the quantum uncertainty intrinsic?
- Why did God make the world quantum rather than classical?
- Semantic Similarity
- Astronomy Simulations
- Milky Way stellar disk is warped in its outer regions
- On the conservation of information
- What is information?
- Probability, information and Shannon entropy
- Physics of Life: A Free Book by the National Academies of Sciences-Engineering-Medicine
- What is the difference between algebraic geometry and algebraic topology?
- Update on neutron lifetime (mirror neutron hypothesis falsified)
- Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery
- So much creative talent is wasted
- Reality+ (new book by David J. Chalmers)
- Closure Problem of Emergence
- Learning to trust our intuition
- Excitement about the new value of the W boson mass
- CLA (circle, line, angle) symbolism
- First sentence of a book
- Truth
- Zero mass but non-zero weight
- Is it possible for the brain to use backpropagation?
- Grand idea of Semantic Web is dying
- The Mysterious Google PageRank Algorithm
- A Lecture on Falsafa by Nicholas Heer
- Artificial Associative Memory
- Open access to Turkish academic journals
- Symmetry Magazine’s “Quantum Ecosystem” articles
- Latest on proton and antiproton charge-to-mass ratio
- Citation statistics in scientific categories
- Live status of JWST
- Different kinds of distance
- Different kinds of entropy
- Unification themes in physics
- Neutrino resources
- David Mumford’s thoughts on consciousness
- Three kinds of neutrinos – no more, no less
- CERN LHC beams return after 3 years
- Hubble tension
- It is all quiet on the particle physics front
- Can electron be split in topological insulators?
- Progress report on scientific research in Turkey
- Concept of dimension revisited
- My first conversation with GPT-3
- Centennial of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
- First results from Fermilab muon g-2 experiment: more confusion
- Still here
- John Preskill’s lectures (CALTECH quantum computing course)
- Latest finding from SWARM studying Earth’s magnetic field
- Number of papers published by the Large Hadron Collider collaborations
- A survey of young particle physicists in Europe
- A brief history of hadron colliders
- Are we oversimplifying?
- On vacuum fluctuations
- Duality Rotation
- Coupling
- Orthogonality
- Connectivity, Interaction, Communication
- Three Number Systems (thanks to John Baez for reminder)
- My response to Wolchover’s question: What is a particle?
- How do we know vacuum fluctuations exist?
- Reading CERN Courier (2)
- Tropes in Physics
- Basics of Theoretical Computer Science
- Volcanoes of Anatolia
- Fiber Bundles in Physics
- Reviewed and updated QM articles
- dimensions-math.org
- Bifurcating self-interaction concept of Frank van den Bovenkamp
- Roger Penrose wins the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
- Do not confuse spin direction with spin magnitude
- Lake Baikal
- Experimental verification of Higgs boson couplings to elementary particles
- Physics Education in the United States (statistics)
- First observation of W-boson pair creation from two photons
- Latest on the Element Lithium
- Fourth type of neutrino does not exist
- Lepton universality is verified (no new physics)
- Guest post by Richard Gauthier: Natural Laws and Mysticism in the Cosmic Cycle of Creation
- Semiotic Closure
- Individuality and Collectivity
- Confinement and Liberation
- Comments on universe being a fluctuation
- Universe is not a fluctuation
- How to implement random article pointer in JavaScript
- Ignoring Agency is Ignorance
- Machine Learning Interview Questions
- Large refugee waves to Anatolia in recent centuries
- Happy to learn Maldacena’s thoughts on the relationship between vacuum fluctuations and spacetime stretching
- Theoretical value of muon g-2 updated
- What percentage of scientists are atheists?
- The non-gauge nature of the newly discovered forces
- Concept of Gauge Invariance
- Stephen Wolfram’s Theory of Everything
- Few Research Directions in Systems Neuroscience
- Guest Post by Richard Gauthier on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model
- Notes (May 2020)
- Reading CERN Courier (1)
- Howard H. Pattee and the Physics of Symbols
- Neutrinos and Antineutrinos Change Flavors at Different Rates
- Quantum Mechanics, Probability, Covid-19 Analogy
- No useful theory of biological neural computation yet
- Interesting anecdote about Roger Penrose as told by Carlo Rovelli
- On the transformation of neutrino into electron
- Conservation Laws of Particle Interactions
- How to create antiprotons
- Free Book Commemorating the 25’th Anniversary of the Simons Foundation
- 2020 update on the location of the magnetic north pole
- My obsession with the pageview count
- Brookhaven Electron-Ion Collider
- Dark Energy Controversies
- Useful metaphysics
- Hedda H. Mørch, John Horgan, Pandeism
- Mirror World
- James Schombert’s lectures on cosmology
- Univon
- Academic Rankings of Top Turkish Universities
- Notes (November 2019)
- Multiplication table of shapes
- Did you know electron can pass through the proton in a hydrogen atom?
- Only integer changes of spin are observed in particle interactions
- What is the name of the super-massive black hole at the center of Milky Way?
- Latest news and discussion on Google’s quantum supremacy experiment
- Hydrogen molecule looks like this
- Richard Gauthier’s “Them from Ylem” proposal
- Notes (October 2019)
- Graph Theory Concepts
- Keep going
- Hubble constant: 5 sigma separation between 67 and 73 (km/s)/Mpc
- NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
- Current state of quantum computing (2019)
- On the emergence of space and time
- Few reminders about quantum teleportation
Author Archives: Suresh Emre
New findings on the mechanical properties of the proton
The proton structure exhibits different properties depending on how it is probed. There are new type of experiments trying to understand the mechanical properties of the proton such as the distribution of internal pressures and shear forces inside the proton. … Continue reading
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On Categorization
Carlos E. Perez writes thoughtful articles on AI with admirable clarity. I share his conviction that AI will be more effective when it employs a self-model. While revisiting his articles at Medium, I encountered the article titled “The False Equivalence … Continue reading
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2024 update on the location of the magnetic north pole
The magnetic north pole has been drifting from Canada to Siberia. 2024 location of the magnetic north pole (green dot) is 85.975°N and 141.794°E . 2020 location of the magnetic north pole (green dot) was 86.50°N and 164.04°E . Source https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/historical_declination The green dot indicates the … Continue reading
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Saturation of AI creativity in the future
In his latest blogpost, Scott Aaronson summarizes AI related concepts. Among many thoughts, he points out that there will be limitations on LLMs (large language models) in the future because of the limits on the computational power and training data. … Continue reading
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Assembly Theory, Integrated Information Theory
I have read the latest publications from the groups developing the Assembly Theory (AT) and the Integrated Information Theory (IIT). I am not qualified to critique these theories, but I wanted to say few words about them because I see … Continue reading
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Invariants
Invariants are the conserved quantities (time-independent, space-independent). Invariants in particle physics Invariants in graph theory There may be invariants of neural networks. We can develop algorithms to discover them. These algorithms may employ AI. The invariants of neural networks can … Continue reading
Atlas of nearby galaxies
You can find information about the nearby galaxies in the Siena Galaxy Atlas. SGA (Siena Galaxy Atlas) https://sga.legacysurvey.org/ is freely available to the public. The scientific paper about SGA: Siena Galaxy Atlas 2020 SGA currently contains information about 383620 galaxies. … Continue reading
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Is spin=1/2 an indication of maximum confinement?
At the lowest level, the physical universe is made up of matter particles (fermions) and force carrying quanta (bosons). Fermions include leptons (electron, muon, tau and their neutrinos) and quarks (u, d, c, s, t, b). Force carrying bosons include … Continue reading
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Experimental value of muon g-2 updated
E989 collaboration announced the latest experimental value of muon g-2 Muon g-2 = 0.00233184110 +/- 0.00000000043 (stat.) +/- 0.00000000019 (syst.) This result is based on data collected in 2018, 2019, 2020. E989 collaboration is now finished with data collection and … Continue reading
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Top 100
Blogging activity here slowed down significantly. My productivity and creativity are declining fast. For whatever it’s worth, here’s the top 100 posts by page view. Difference between sidereal day and solar day on Earth Galileo’s Diagramma Della Verita LaTex Book … Continue reading
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History of FERMILAB by Valerie Higgins
Valerie Higgins is the FERMILAB archivist and historian. Her presentation at the 56th Annual Fermilab Users Meeting, June 28, 2023, contains many interesting historical images. Fermilab: A Collaborative History More detailed history of FERMILAB can be found in these links:
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Update on electron’s electric dipole moment
Theoretically electron is a point particle but in reality it has an effective size due to flickering quantum fields around it. If electron has an effective size what is the shape of it. Is it round? Is it elongated? Physicists … Continue reading
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Few Trends (2)
Trends in Google web search between 2004 – 2022 Search term: spirituality Search term: soul Search term: consciousness Search term: divine love Search term: poetry Search term: artificial intelligence Search term: machine learning Search term: qubit Search term: primordial Search … Continue reading
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Update on major US accelerator projects
Image credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory (the internal quark and gluon substructure of the proton grows more complex when probed at increasing center-of-mass energies). Fermilab Progress Update Fermilab PIP-II project Brookhaven Electron-Ion Collider LCLS-II Free Electron Laser Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) … Continue reading
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Why did God make the world quantum rather than classical?
I saw the question “Why did God make the world quantum rather than classical?” in John Horgan’s Scott Aaronson interview in 2016. In that long interview Scott Aaronson takes great care to provide answers to Horgan’s questions. The responses to … Continue reading
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Semantic Similarity
The concept of “semantic similarity” is different from the concept of “textual similarity”. Semantic similarity is about the closeness in meaning of the two texts, and lexical similarity is about the lexical closeness of the two texts. Measuring semantic similarity … Continue reading
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Astronomy Simulations
This website contains amazing educational material (astronomy simulations) http://astro.unl.edu/animationsLinks.html Thanks to Astronomy Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Milky Way stellar disk is warped in its outer regions
This is old news from 2019 but important to note for educational purposes. The distribution of stars in the outer regions of the Milky Way galaxy deviates from a flat disk shape. The conclusion [1] was based on the distances … Continue reading
On the conservation of information
Is there a physics law that dictates information cannot be destroyed? No. But some physicists invoke the 2nd law of thermodynamics and the unitarity principle of Quantum Mechanics to support the claim that information is conserved. It is easy to … Continue reading
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What is information?
There is no consensus on the definition of “consciousness”. The situation is not that bad with “information” but still a vague concept despite great advances in the quantification of information by scientists and engineers. Philosophers are getting into this game … Continue reading
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Probability, information and Shannon entropy
I would like to thank John Baez one more time for his heroic efforts in educating the public. I learn a lot from his website. The tutorial material below is from his July 2022 diary. I added commentary. Quantitative measure … Continue reading
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Physics of Life: A Free Book by the National Academies of Sciences-Engineering-Medicine
“Biological physics now has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongsidemore traditional fields of astrophysics and cosmology, atomic, molecular and opticalphysics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and plasmaphysics.” https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/biological-physicsphysics-of-living-systems-a-decadal-survey You can follow the links View Report –> … Continue reading
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What is the difference between algebraic geometry and algebraic topology?
I am not a mathematician. I am just trying to understand the difference between algebraic geometry and algebraic topology, categorically. spatial objects: surfaces, spheres, tori, circles, knots, links, configuration spaces, etc. Algebraic Geometry University of Oxford Mathematical Institute: “As its … Continue reading
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Update on neutron lifetime (mirror neutron hypothesis falsified)
Bound to the atomic nucleus neutron is stable. Free from the nucleus neutron decays into (proton + electron + electron type antineutrino) in about 15 minutes. Free neutrons inside a bottle decay in 877.8 ± 0.3 seconds. [1] Free neutrons … Continue reading
Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery
The discovery of the Higgs boson was announced on July 4, 2012. Today, on the 10’th anniversary of the announcement, CERN released articles. The CMS and ATLAS experiments released statements as well. Higgs10: When spring 2012 turned to summer The … Continue reading
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So much creative talent is wasted
In the modern world there are many outlets for the driven intellectuals. They find a way to express themselves. But those who are buried under heavy burdens, working on never-ending mundane tasks, need encouragement to come out of their shells. … Continue reading
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Reality+ (new book by David J. Chalmers)
David J. Chalmers is my favorite philosopher. I have been following his work since 1994. He is known for his contributions to the academic studies of consciousness. For many years he was focused on the question: “What is consciousness?” In … Continue reading
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Closure Problem of Emergence
Abstract: Aristotle stated that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Modern scientists came to the same conclusion. Phillip W. Anderson wrote an influential article titled “More is Different” in 1972 [1]. Many other scientists joined him in … Continue reading
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Learning to trust our intuition
Development of new ideas starts with learning to trust our intuition. Then comes the hard part of working out the details. Presentation is a big job too. After the presentation, the probability of being ignored by professional scientists is very … Continue reading
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Excitement about the new value of the W boson mass
Tevatron was the highest energy accelerator in the world for 25 years between 1986-2011 colliding protons and antiprotons at the center-of-mass energy of 1.8 Tev. CDF was one of the two detectors (D0 being the other one) performing measurements using … Continue reading
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First sentence of a book
Authors sometimes spend years to decide about the first sentence of their book. Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk is famous for his opening lines. This is the most famous one: “I read a book one day and my whole life was … Continue reading
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Truth
IEP article on “Truth”: https://iep.utm.edu/truth/ SEP article on “Truth”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/ Wikipedia article on “Truth”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth Dictionary “Truth”: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/truth
Zero mass but non-zero weight
Photons have zero rest mass but non-zero weight. There is a tutorial paper on this by M.B. van der Mark and G.W. ‘t Hooft titled “Light is heavy“. Physicists do not use the term “rest mass” anymore. More appropriate term … Continue reading
Is it possible for the brain to use backpropagation?
This is a follow-up on my earlier post titled “No useful theory of biological neural computation yet“. A recent Quanta article titled “Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn” by Anil Ananthaswamy gives me hope that Neuroscientists … Continue reading
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Grand idea of Semantic Web is dying
It looks like the grand idea of Semantic Web is dying. That would be a shame! This article ( Whatever happened to the Semantic Web? ) summarizes the state of the Semantic Web project as of 2018. The official FAQ … Continue reading
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The Mysterious Google PageRank Algorithm
Even though there are many clues about the factors used by the Google PageRank algorithm it remains mysterious. They will never tell us exactly how it works to prevent manipulation. Besides, they calibrate their algorithm continuously based on experiments. Citations … Continue reading
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A Lecture on Falsafa by Nicholas Heer
There is an informative article titled “A Lecture on Islamic Philosophy” written by Nicholas Heer. Let me remind you that the “Islamic Philosophy” here refers to the intellectual tradition known as falsafa which is distinct from “Islamic Theology”. Falsafa is distinct … Continue reading
Artificial Associative Memory
The classic book on artificial associative memory is T. Kohonen’s “Self-Organization and Associative Memory” [1]. Kohonen’s most famous contribution is the Self-Organizing Map. Prof. Kohonen recently passed away on December 13, 2021, at the age of 87. There is also a … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, Memory
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Open access to Turkish academic journals
English: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/ Turkish: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/ DergiPark provides open access to articles published in Turkish academic journals. DergiPark is the national journal management and publication system of Turkey. Only open access journals are hosted by DergiPark. A significant portion of the articles … Continue reading
Symmetry Magazine’s “Quantum Ecosystem” articles
The Symmetry Online Magazine published a series of articles to educate public about quantum computing. Playing by the quantum rules The second quantum revolution From bits to qubits What is quantum information? More than one way to make a qubit … Continue reading
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Latest on proton and antiproton charge-to-mass ratio
Latest results from the BASE experiment at CERN published in Nature [1] shows that the charge-to-mass ratios of protons and antiprotons are the same to a precision of 16 parts per trillion. This is a new record in precision. (charge_proton/mass_proton) … Continue reading
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Citation statistics in scientific categories
This is a follow-up on my 2014 blogpost titled “Average citations per article in different disciplines” which showed this figure: These numbers are averages over many papers and many years. Some papers get thousands of citations and others get no … Continue reading
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Live status of JWST
I watched the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with great excitement this morning. You can follow the mission status of JWST from this page: https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html News: https://webbtelescope.org/news Home: https://webbtelescope.org/
Different kinds of distance
Image credit for formulas: Maarten Grootendorst [2] Euclidean distance Distance between two series. Manhattan distance Distance between two series. Chebyshev distance Distance between two series. Chebyshev distance has limited applicability. Minkowski distance This is the general formula that covers Euclidean, … Continue reading
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Different kinds of entropy
More than ten years ago, I have written a blogpost titled “Confusion about Entropy” and brought readers’ attention to the fact that even scientists are confused about entropy. That’s because there are different kinds of entropy: 1) entropy as dispersal … Continue reading
Unification themes in physics
Most physicists believe that the universe is governed by comprehensible laws. They dedicate their lives to the discovery of those laws. A majority of them believe that the laws are part of a single theoretical framework. This belief system and … Continue reading
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Neutrino resources
Read this first Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 Fermilab All things neutrino Neutrinos (Fermilab experiments) T2K The FAQ page at T2K Matt Strassler Neutrino Types and Neutrino Oscillations How to make neutrino beam How to detect … Continue reading
David Mumford’s thoughts on consciousness
I have been reading David Mumford’s blog recently. David Mumford received a Fields Medal (Nobel Prize of Mathematics) for his work on algebraic geometry. He received many other awards including the National Medal of Science in 2010. He writes about … Continue reading
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Three kinds of neutrinos – no more, no less
I never understood the search for sterile (right-chiral , 4th kind of) neutrino. I understand the search was prompted by anomalous data from the earlier MiniBooNE and LSND experiments and the desire to explain dark matter in the universe but … Continue reading
CERN LHC beams return after 3 years
The CERN complex – chain of accelerators and all experiments – went through major upgrades in the last three years. And finally, on October 19, 2021, counter-rotating protons were injected into the LHC. After two weeks of beam tests including low-energy collisions in … Continue reading
Hubble tension
Shown above: values of the expansion rate of the universe (Hubble constant H0) from direct and indirect measurements by different missions, with the grey and pink bands showing the 68% confidence-level values from SH0ES and Planck, respectively. Problem “Local measurements … Continue reading
It is all quiet on the particle physics front
Experimental side of elementary particle physics is very expensive and technically challenging. Theoretical side involves very difficult calculations requiring supercomputers. Esoteric BSM (beyond Standard Model) theories are waiting for confirmation. It seems that there will be decades before we find … Continue reading
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Can electron be split in topological insulators?
I was shocked when I saw John Preskill’s tweet shown above. I am no expert in condensed matter physics. I was a professional physicist in the past specializing in beam-beam interactions (accelerator physics) and I follow particle physics very closely. … Continue reading
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Progress report on scientific research in Turkey
Turkish Academy of Sciences published a report prepared by Ufuk Akçiğit (University of Chicago) and Elif Özcan-Tok examining the academic environment in Turkey. The report is based on datasets Scopus and MAG (Microsoft Academic Graph). http://www.tuba.gov.tr/tr/yayinlar/suresiz-yayinlar/raporlar/turkiye-bilim-raporu The report is written … Continue reading
My first conversation with GPT-3
I was invited to be a beta tester of the OpenAI‘s GPT-3 related products. Here’s my first conversation with the Davinci engine. Q: Hi GPT-3, are you a conscious entity? A: Yes. Q: What makes you a conscious entity? A: … Continue reading
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Centennial of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
We are celebrating the 100th birthday of Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (May 21, 1921 – October 21, 1990), also known by his spiritual name Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. The digital archive of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti’s books and discourses can be found at https://anandamarga.net/ee9/ His call … Continue reading
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First results from Fermilab muon g-2 experiment: more confusion
Particle physicists have been waiting for the results from the Fermilab muon g-2 experiment with great anticipation. Results from the first run of the experiment were announced on April 7, 2021. I congratulate the E989 collaboration for performing this extraordinarily … Continue reading
Still here
My job situation has changed! For the third time in my career, I experienced total loss of seniority and started from scratch. I went back to the young man’s schedule of 12 hour work days doing programming and data analysis … Continue reading
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John Preskill’s lectures (CALTECH quantum computing course)
John Preskill’s lectures from the first term of CALTECH quantum computing course have been posted on YouTube. Ph/CS 219A Quantum Computation – YouTube John Preskill is Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at CALTECH and the director of IQIM … Continue reading
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Latest finding from SWARM studying Earth’s magnetic field
I have written about ESA’s SWARM satellite constellation in 2015. In that post I mentioned this link that provides a wealth of information about the SWARM project. Swarm – eoPortal Directory – Satellite Missions SWARM scientists recently discovered [1] that … Continue reading
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Number of papers published by the Large Hadron Collider collaborations
“2852 papers: from the first publications in 2008 that described the detector designs, through 2012’s discovery of the Higgs Boson, all the way to CMS’s 1000th publication in 2020.” – CERN “…along with the 2852 publications by CERN’s LHC experiments, … Continue reading
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A survey of young particle physicists in Europe
A diverse group of about 180 early-career researchers in particle physics (mostly experimental physicists) provided feedback as part of the recent update of the European strategy for particle physics (ESPP). I wanted to share their executive summary and few statistics. … Continue reading
A brief history of hadron colliders
The CERN Courier has a nice article summarizing the history of hadron colliders. Discovery machines – CERN Courier written by two leaders of the Large Hadron Collider project Lyn Evans (former LHC project director), Imperial College London Peter Jenni (former ATLAS spokesperson), … Continue reading
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Are we oversimplifying?
I get overwhelmed with wonder when I contemplate the vastness of the Cosmos and the miracle of life. The truth of it all is beyond intellectual understanding. I know that! But, it is important for me to present a rational … Continue reading
On vacuum fluctuations
In my post titled “How do we know vacuum fluctuations exist?” [1] I was careful to add the terminology “zero-point fluctuations in quantum fields” in parenthesis right after “vacuum fluctuations“. According to Arnold Neumeier [2] the terminology of “vacuum fluctuation” … Continue reading
Connectivity, Interaction, Communication
Long time ago I wrote 2 articles titled “Different kinds of connectivity” and “Network Externalities“. This is a fascinating topic. I intended to follow up. I guess the time is now. I wrote few more articles related to the concept … Continue reading
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Three Number Systems (thanks to John Baez for reminder)
John Baez deserves a huge credit for educating us tirelessly over the years. There is a treasure of knowledge in his website and blogs. This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics Fun Stuff (expository writings and other diversions) Seminar (tons of course notes) Serious … Continue reading
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My response to Wolchover’s question: What is a particle?
In her recent Quanta Magazine article titled “What is a Particle?” Natalie Wolchover lists the main categories of answers by the professional physicists as follows: A Particle Is a ‘Collapsed Wave Function’ A Particle Is a ‘Quantum Excitation of a … Continue reading
How do we know vacuum fluctuations exist?
Experimental evidence for vacuum fluctuations (zero-point fluctuations in quantum fields) come from the observations of the Lamb shift in the energy levels of the Hydrogen atom, observations of the Casimir effect and the g-2 experiments with electrons and muons. Lamb … Continue reading
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Reading CERN Courier (2)
The online magazine CERN Courier is the most informative resource in particle and accelerator physics. This is the second installment of my “Reading CERN Courier” series. Most read articles at CERN Courier Why does CP violation matter in the universe? (John Ellis) The … Continue reading
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Basics of Theoretical Computer Science
I have a friend who is very knowledgeable and skilled in many areas including theoretical computer science. During our conversations he uses terms like “halting problem”, “Turing machine”, “Gödel’s incompleteness theorem”. I felt the need to learn the basics of … Continue reading
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Volcanoes of Anatolia
In my 2013 blogpost “Mystery of Mount Ararat” I said that humans were always fascinated by volcanic mountains. There is a connection between the human psyche and volcanoes. Well…the connection may be more than psychological. There may be biological reasons … Continue reading
Fiber Bundles in Physics
Another subject I avoided for many years: fiber bundles in physics. It was highly recommended to me that I should read this paper first: “Fiber Bundles and Quantum Theory” by Herbert J. Bernstein and Anthony V. Phillips published in Scientific … Continue reading
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Reviewed and updated QM articles
I reviewed my earlier blogposts related to Quantum Mechanics and updated some of them. I did my best to turn these articles into tutorials. There are few philosophical (euphemism for speculative) pieces. I clearly indicated those. Pure States and Mixed … Continue reading
dimensions-math.org
I discovered a wonderful tutorial movie and web site on Topology and Geometry http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_regarder_E.htm (watch online) I recommend that you watch the movie first before you read the text on the web pages http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_tour_E.htm (tour/guide) http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_chap_E.htm (details) I congratulate Jos … Continue reading
Bifurcating self-interaction concept of Frank van den Bovenkamp
I have brought your attention to Frank van den Bovenkamp’s work before. Pioneers of Microvita Research (2): Frank van den Bovenkamp Microvita links He recently published an important paper. The Hydrogen Atom as an Integrative Eigenstate of the Bifurcating Quantum … Continue reading
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Roger Penrose wins the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Roger Penrose became a Nobel laureate at the age of 89. His contributions to physics and mathematics are well recognized. He has many awards, just look at the “awards” section of the Wikipedia article about him. Please also take a … Continue reading
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Do not confuse spin direction with spin magnitude
A fermion will impart units of spin angular momentum irrespective of its energy when it interacts with other particles or fields. The direction of the spin angular momentum is discussed below. A gauge boson will impart units of spin angular … Continue reading
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Lake Baikal
During the Covid-19 stay-at-home period I started watching YouTube videos on the big screen TV instead of the computer screen. It seems that YouTube recommendation algorithm works differently when you access it through a cable TV service. Anyways, I started … Continue reading
Experimental verification of Higgs boson couplings to elementary particles
Thanks to the heroic efforts of thousands of experimental physicists, engineers and technicians we have learned that the Higgs field is real. Experimental exploration of the Higgs field and its quantum Higgs boson is an ongoing effort. At this point, … Continue reading
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Physics Education in the United States (statistics)
In the last two decades there was a sharp increase in the number of physics degrees. Physics PhD is 5-7 years of hard work. Data on graduate education in Physics Data on undergraduate education in Physics I published a physics … Continue reading
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First observation of W-boson pair creation from two photons
Photons do not interact with each other because photons do not carry any electric charge. In the presence of very strong electric and magnetic fields, however, there are possibilities for two photons to interact indirectly. In the presence of strong … Continue reading
Latest on the Element Lithium
The diagram above shows the relative abundances of the elements. Elements Li (Lithium), Be (Beryllium) and B (Boron) stand out. Theoretically, they are supposed to be more abundant than C (Carbon) but they are not. The smaller the atomic number … Continue reading
Fourth type of neutrino does not exist
I have been betting against the fourth type of neutrino. You don’t have to be a seer to make this prediction because there is overwhelming evidence against the existence of the fourth generation of fermions. Now, there is more experimental … Continue reading
Lepton universality is verified (no new physics)
In my December 27, 2015 post titled “Lepton Universality” I reported about the early experimental signs pointing to a possible violation of the lepton universality. More data and analysis from the ATLAS experiment at CERN showed however that the lepton … Continue reading
Guest post by Richard Gauthier: Natural Laws and Mysticism in the Cosmic Cycle of Creation
When I saw Richard Gauthier’s recent article I wanted to share this exceptional article with the readers. With his permission I present the full article here as a guest post. The links to this article are: https://www.academia.edu/43732448/Natural_Laws_and_Mysticism_in_the_Cosmic_Cycle_of_Creation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343225050_Natural_Laws_and_Mysticism_in_the_Cosmic_Cycle_of_Creation There is … Continue reading
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Semiotic Closure
The concept of “semantic closure” was introduced and developed by Howard H. Pattee in the context of Biology [1][2][3][4]. L. M. Rocha called this concept “semiotic closure”. In a special issue of Biosystems journal (Volume 60, No: 1-3) edited by L. … Continue reading
Individuality and Collectivity
Jordana Cepelewicz of Quanta Magazine wrote an article titled “What is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory” [1] where she summarized the work of David Krakauer, Jessica Flack, Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich and Nihat Ay. The scientific paper … Continue reading
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Comments on universe being a fluctuation
Richard Gauthier has responded to my post titled “Universe is not a fluctuation”. Please find his comments below. This inspired me to recollect my thoughts on the emergence of the physical universe. This is a subject I have been avoiding. … Continue reading
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