The house near Kensington Palace, London, where James Clerk Maxwell lived when he realised light was a wave of electricity and magnetism. In effect, he invented the 20th and 21st centuries, spawning our ultra-connected world (not to mention both relativity and quantum theory).

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94? Happy Birthday Roger.

A quick snap of Uranus with the 24in scope low in the sky before twilight. To my surprise, the elusive rings were readily visible in just 15 minutes of exposure, and far surpasses anything I've achieved with my other 16in scope - the power of aperture showing its face once again

Saturn on August 10th. Some spells of good seeing at times for this session. Some low contrast detail is visible on the planet such as the diffuse white spot in the Equatorial Zone. C14 with Uranus M/C cameras.

Hovering high above the sun's chromosphere, a detached solar prominence is held in place by magnetic forces invisible to the eye.

At 36 billion solar masses, is the heaviest black hole too massive? Yes, gravitational lensing has helped us find a 36 billion solar mass black hole an impressive ~5 billion light-years away. It's *almost* too massive, and that means something profound. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

Huge if true: New NASA Webb Telescope observations may have detected primordial black holes in the extremely early universe. Before galaxies, before stars ... black holes may have generated the first light after the Big Bang. scientificamerican.com/article/the-ja…

Einstein’s famous “change the facts” quote is an insidious lie Einstein never said, "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." The loss of a shared reality, including about basic facts, makes building a functional society impossible. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

#LeftHandersDay

Do you have free will? Most experts I’ve talked to on INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast—Sam Harris, Robert Sapolsky, Dan Dennett—say no. Today, I debate one of the most brilliant brains in the game, Sabine Hossenfelder, to settle this once and for all. (Click below if you have free-will 👇) 📺:

145yrs of GRS observations - revised version! I wanted to share this excellent compilation made recently by Shinji Mizumoto showing the GRS appearance during the past 145 years of observation. This compilation contains some rarely seen photographic images from various

Progress and Pollution. Part 2 of an ongoing series: open.substack.com/pub/bretthall/…

How, half a century ago, Medical Research Council changed the world. Monoclonal antibodies revolutionized biomedical science and health care nature.com/articles/d4158…

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Pre Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. youtu.be/peUyizgG-mM?si…

Honored to see my ideas featured in Quanta Magazine and grateful for Gilles Brassard's passionate explanation! I'm deeply indebted to pioneers like Everett and Deutsch. My work builds on their legacy, rigorously reconciling quantum theory with Einstein's principle of locality.

Last week I came across a remarkable document by astronomer William Herschel. He describes his telescopes as time machines, capable of "penetrating into time" as much as 1,910,000 years into the past. His numbers were off, but his insight was spot on. In the year 1800!

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Does anyone else find this image sequence to be absolutely astonishing?!

Does so-called "deep learning" or any Artificial Intelligence more broadly use "inductive reasoning"? If not, then what is it doing? And have the most advanced systems discovered new physics yet? Will they ever? All that and more here: