Trions form when three particles, like quarks or electrons, come together. This formation occurs in quantum particles in ...

The trouble with listening for the faintest events in the universe is that your own instrument often drowns them out. However ...

One of the hardest things to calculate for an asteroid is its mass—but it is such a critical feature. It determines how much ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

May 3rd, 2026 : "holistic perspective" In the previous post, I discussed the shape of mirror surfaces. The following presents a schematic view of how optical fields interact with various aspects of ...

An accurate waveguide width extraction methodology is demonstrated by developing a deep-learning neural network (DNN) framework synergized with a single low-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI).

SIS is an FFT-based interferometer simulation program that I wrote, combining it with the FOG by Richard Day. I was gladly surprised to find that ChatGPT 5.2 and Gemini 3 know about it. Each provided ...

How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can’t be seen, but you believe ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

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This document describes QProofEVM — a decentralized L2 network for Ethereum, designed to solve the fundamental problem of the absence of true randomness in blockchain. Modern blockchains rely on ...

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event from a black hole merger, hinting that all three singularities were locked in ...