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WTF is Zero Point Energy and How Could it Change the World?
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 by Neel V. Patel in Inverse.com: It would be a doozy to tap into, that's for sure.
Energy will never cease to be a concern for human beings, so long as our species plans to keep growing and expanding. There’s no shortage of scientists and engineers trying to come up with solutions that might help us avoid a catastrophic energy shortage. Some of these ideas seem pretty feasible, such as switching to renewables like wind and solar. Some are incredibly farfetched and probably impossible, like cold fusion. And then there are some ideas which are downright bonkers — but if true, could essentially change everything we know and love about human civilization.
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Ground States and the Zero-Point Field
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 From EarthTech International - Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin: Introduction
The electromagnetic zero-point field (ZPF), a sea of background electromagnetic energy that fills the vacuum, is often regarded merely as a curious outcome of the quantum mechanical requirement that the lowest allowable energy level in a harmonic oscillator mode is not zero but ħw /2, where w is the characteristic frequency of the oscillator. However, there is a growing body of evidence that the ZPF may play a causal role in some important fundamental processes. For example, it has been demonstrated[1] experimentally that the familiar spontaneous emission process in atoms can be regarded as stimulated emission by ZPF radiation. Of particular pertinence to this experiment, we have shown[2] that a dynamic equilibrium with the ZPF can explain the electronic ground state of the hydrogen atom. Unfortunately, this particular hypothesis has resisted our efforts to design a practical experimental test. However, there is a closely related hypothesis that is much easier to test.
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Anonymous writes: 
An international team of physicists, materials scientists and string theoreticians have observed a phenomenon on Earth that was previously thought to only occur hundreds of light years away or at the time when the universe was born. This result could lead to a more evidence-based model for the understanding the universe and for improving the energy-conversion process in electronic devices. Previously it was thought to only occur in the early stages of the universe and within neutron stars and black holes.
IBM scientists predict this discovery will open up a rush of new developments around sensors, switches and thermoelectric coolers or energy-harvesting devices, for improved power consumption.
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Andrew Michrowski writes: From http://www.nationalobserver.com: These 'missing charts' may change the way you think about fossil fuel addiction, by Barry Saxifrage in Analysis, Energy | July 13th 2017 - #692 of 692 articles from the Special Report: Race Against Climate Change
 We're still burning more and more fossil fuel every year, says climate reporter Barry Saxifrage. File photo by Kris Krug
To address the twin threats of climate change and ocean acidification, nearly every nation has promised to reduce fossil fuel burning.
But so far, humanity keeps burning ever more. Last year we did it again, burning an all-time record amount.
That's according to data compiled from the latest "BP Statistical Review of World Energy."
This annual report is one of the most widely used and referenced around
the world. It's big and comprehensive with fifty pages, thirty-three
spreadsheets and forty charts. The report highlights most of the
important trends in global energy. Most. But one critical trend was
nowhere to be found....
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Magnetic nanoknots evoke Lord Kelvin's vortex theory of atoms
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Anonymous writes:  In the late 1800s when scientists were still trying to figure out what exactly atoms are, one of the leading theories, proposed by Lord Kelvin, was that atoms are knots of swirling vortices in the aether. Although this idea turned out to be completely wrong, it ushered in modern knot theory, which today is used in various areas of science such as fluid dynamics, the structure of DNA, and the concept of chirality.
Now in a new paper published in Physical Review Letters, mathematical physicist Paul Sutcliffe at Durham University in the UK has theoretically shown that nanoparticles called magnetic skyrmions can be tied into various types of knots with different magnetic properties. He explains that, in a sense, these nanoknots represent a "nanoscale resurrection of Kelvin's dream of knotted fields."
Simulations of magnetic skyrmion knots with Hopf charges of (a) 3, (b) 6, (c) 7, and (d) 10. Credit: Sutcliffe. ©2017 American Physical Society
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Neutrons zero in on the elusive magnetic Majorana fermion
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Anonymous writes:  As neutrons (blue line) scatter off the graphene-like honeycomb material, they produce a magnetic Majorana fermion (green wave) that moves through the material disrupting or breaking apart magnetic interactions between 'spinning' electrons. Credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman
Neutron scattering has revealed in unprecedented detail new insights into the exotic magnetic behavior of a material that, with a fuller understanding, could pave the way for quantum calculations far beyond the limits of the ones and zeros of a computer's binary code.
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3 Separate Experiments Report Signs of a Phenomenon Beyond The Standard Model
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Anonymous writes:  A 99.95% certainty
A review of three separate experiments has turned up "remarkably similar"
results, pointing to what researchers say is a strong possibility that
we've found hits of a phenomenon that goes beyond the standard model of
particle physics.
When taken together, data from experiments conducted in the US,
Switzerland, and Japan, have yielded a result with 99.95 percent
certainty that lepton universality - a fundamental assumption of the
standard model - does not hold up.
"These studies have resulted in observations that seem to challenge lepton universality," an international team of physicists reports.
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Solving one of nature's great puzzles
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 Via ScienceDaily.com: Solving one of nature's great puzzles: What drives the accelerating expansion of the universe?
UBC physicists may have solved one of nature's great puzzles: what causes the accelerating expansion of our universe?
PhD student Qingdi Wang has tackled this question in a new study that tries to resolve a major incompatibility issue between two of the most successful theories that explain how our universe works: quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity.
The study suggests that if we zoomed in-way in-on the universe, we would realize it's made up of constantly fluctuating space and time.
"Space-time is not as static as it appears, it's constantly moving," said Wang...
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The physics that tells us what the Universe is made of
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 Via BBC-Earth: The physics that tells us what the Universe is made of
Everything around us is made of atoms, but it turns out that the building blocks of the Universe are far stranger than that
Science writer and astrophysicist Adam Becker explains what the Universe is made of to BBC Earth's Michael Marshall and Melissa Hogenboom, with help from the animators at Pomona Pictures.
[Vlad- Watch the video! Not sure how it will stand the test of time, but it is educational and fun to watch].
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CERN Declares War On The Standard Model
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 by Matt Williams (UniverseToday.com): Ever since the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, the Large Hadron Collider has been dedicated to searching for the existence of physics that go beyond the Standard Model. To this end, the Large Hardon Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) was established in 1995, specifically for the purpose of exploring what happened after the Big Bang that allowed matter to survive and create the Universe as we know it.
Since that time, the LHCb has been doing some rather amazing things. Since that time, the LHCb has been doing some rather amazing things. This includes discovering five new particles, uncovering evidence of a new manifestation of matter-antimatter asymmetry, and (most recently) discovering unusual results when monitoring beta decay. These findings, which CERN announced in a recent press release, could be an indication of new physics that are not part of the Standard Model.
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Posted by vlad on Saturday, April 22, 2017 @ 19:42:46 EDT (1713 reads)
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Maxwell Simmetry gone bye bye?
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Anonymous writes: 
Radio waves, microwaves and even light itself are all made of electric and magnetic fields. The classical theory of electromagnetism was completed in the 1860s by James Clerk Maxwell. At the time, Maxwell's theory was revolutionary, and provided a unified framework to understand electricity, magnetism and optics. Now, new research led by LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professor Ivan Agullo, with colleagues from the Universidad de Valencia, Spain, advances knowledge of this theory. Their recent discoveries have been published in Physical Review Letters.
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, April 13, 2017 @ 08:42:38 EDT (1750 reads)
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This Strange Light Particle Behaviour Challenges Our Understanding of Quantum Th
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Anonymous writes: 
It's even spookier than we predicted.
Scientists investigating how light particles (or photons) experience entanglement on the quantum scale have discovered something entirely unexpected, and it challenges long-held assumptions about the initial moments of what Einstein referred to as "spooky action at a distance".
When the team created entangled pairs of photons, these particles didn't originate in the same place and break away as predicted - they emerged from entirely different points in space, which means quantum theory might have to account for a whole lot more randomness than we thought.
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, April 13, 2017 @ 08:36:44 EDT (1540 reads)
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How did the proton get its spin?
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Anonymous writes:  Calculating a proton's spin used to be an easy college assignment. In fact, Carl Gagliardi remembers answering that question when he was a physics graduate student in the 1970s. But the real answer turned out not to be simple at all. Even Gagliardi's "right" response was disproven by experiments a few years later that turned the field upside-down.
Protons are one of the three particles that make up atoms, the building
blocks of the universe. A proton's spin is one of its most basic
properties. Because protons are in part made up of quarks, scientists
presumed the proton spins were just the sum of the quark spins.
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, April 13, 2017 @ 08:24:14 EDT (1404 reads)
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Newly discovered phenomenon accelerates electrons as they enter a viscous state
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Anonymous writes:  A new finding by physicists at MIT and in Israel shows that under certain specialized conditions, electrons can speed through a narrow opening in a piece of metal more easily than traditional theory says is possible.
This "superballistic" flow resembles the behavior of gases flowing through a constricted opening, however it takes place in a quantum-mechanical electron fluid, says MIT physics professor Leonid Levitov, who is the senior author of a paper describing the finding that appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Posted by vlad on Thursday, March 09, 2017 @ 21:55:42 EST (1772 reads)
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Internal structure of proton is still a mystery
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Anonymous writes:  OLYMPUS experiment sheds light on structure of protons (from phys.org)
A mystery concerning the structure of protons is a step closer to being solved, thanks to a seven-year experiment led by researchers at MIT.
For many years
researchers have probed the structure of protons—subatomic
particles with a positive charge—by bombarding them with electrons
and examining the intensity of the scattered electrons at different
angles.
In this way they have attempted to determine how the proton's
electric charge and magnetization are distributed. These experiments
had previously led researchers to assume that the electric and
magnetic charge distributions are the same, and that one photon—an
elementary particle of light—is exchanged when the protons interact
with the bombarding electrons.
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Posted by vlad on Saturday, March 04, 2017 @ 15:17:59 EST (1676 reads)
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In fact, each new major advance in science starts with an anomaly that is unacceptable at first. -- Beverly Rubik
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