Enrico Fermi Fellowship for Laura Roberts – PhD student at @mpi_grav in Hanover, Germany, wins generous financial support for cross-training in theoretical and experimental physics.

Laura Roberts will receive €200,000 over two years through an Enrico Fermi Fellowship.

The fellowship is aimed at cross-training in theory and experiments. It will support Roberts’ work on preparing the first laboratory observation of vacuum magnetic birefringence – a 90-year-old theoretical prediction.

Measuring the predicted effect or placing stringent limits close to it would test new physics beyond the standard model, including dark matter.

ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1415159/enrico-fermi-fellowship-for-laura-roberts

ℹ️ https://www.eff.cstq.org/

#Fellowship #PhD #Physics #Research #Science #FundamentalPhysics #EnricoFermi #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

Cox explains this so simply that I'm lever feeling that I can't have been paying attention any time someone tried in the past. 😀

https://youtu.be/5KW2Cd8bOPQ?si=wOg5syrsCvH5ym-e

#PlanckLength #FundamentalPhysics

Researchers demonstrated that #quantumcomputers can simulate complex theoretical models that are used to describe fundamental forces in nature: http://go.tum.de/633037

#QuantumPhysics #FundamentalPhysics

📷TUM School of Natural Sciences

Who in the fediverse is working on and talking about fundamental physics? I'd love to hear your suggestions for who I should follow!

#Physics #FundamentalPhysics

Mainz physicists among winners of prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: More than 50 researchers from Mainz University honored for key contributions to the ATLAS experiment 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/mainz-physicists-among-winners-of-prestigious-breakthrough-prize-in-fundamental-physics/

#BreakthroughPrize #ATLASexperiment #CERN #FundamentalPhysics #physics #MainzUniversity

Mainzer Physiker*innen unter Preisträgern des renommierten Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: Mehr als 50 Mainzer Forschende für Schlüsselbeiträge zum ATLAS-Experiment geehrt 👉 https://presse.uni-mainz.de/mainzer-physikerinnen-und-physiker-unter-preistraegern-des-renommierten-breakthrough-prize-in-fundamental-physics/

#BreakthroughPrize #ATLASexperiment #CERN #FundamentalPhysics #Physik #UniMainz

I'm claiming Unification, not Perfection:

https://www.michaelvera.org/Unified_Theory_of_Energy.html

#physics #theoreticalphysics #unifiedtheory #energy #science #quantumphysics #relativity #futureofscience #einstein #newphysics #astrophysics #cosmology #particlephysics #fundamentalphysics #scienceexploration #scientificmethod #unification #gravitationaltheory #electromagnetism #thermodynamics #space #time #matter #sciencematters #scienceisawesome #nextgenphysics #physicslover #physicscommunity #energytheory #unified

How little we really know about entropy
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415386

* 200 years ago French engineer introduced idea quantifying universe’s inexorable slide into decay
* entropy is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance
* embracing that truth is leading to rethinking everything f. rational decision-making to the limits of machines

#science #physics #thermodynamics #entropy #FundamentalPhysics #InformationTheory #StatisticalPhysics

A groundbreaking body of work led by #physicists has opened a new pathway for understanding the #universe's #fundamentalphysics.

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-secrets-universe-discoveries-gravitational.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter