Humans are archaeopteryx of the spirit. Though this could be interpreted as an insult, for him it's a noble creature. As a transitional species b/w dino & bird, it aspired to fly. It didn’t do it very well but it's among the vanguard of creatures who later took flight.

Has the black hole information paradox been solved? The long-standing paradox may be closer than ever to finally losing its mystery. But there are strong disagreements among physicists and a new contender🧵 1/n

I couldn’t agree more: “In Freiberg, Novalis became convinced that physics and chemistry were as much creative endeavours as paintings and poems. ‘Laboratories will be temples,’ he wrote... Sciences, poetry and art belonged together”. From “Magnificent Rebels” by Andrea Wulf

How cool is that!

Why all that drama to decide if google quantum computer created a traversable wormhole or not, when every sane person with Netflix knows that for that matter you only need 4 friends or bots to do OA's 5ish movements synchronously with you? vulture.com/2017/01/oa-mov…

I wonder how much niche is that tweet?

A cosmic game of Connect the Dots may have revealed a left-right asymmetry in the arrangement of galaxies. The surprising finding is still undergoing peer review and many physicists say caution is warranted. Katie McCormick reports: quantamagazine.org/asymmetry-dete…

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#EdWitten What that man can do with little pieces of fundamental physics wisdom scattered across 50 years of litterature, is just absolutely unbelievable. arxiv.org/abs/2212.08270

Big news: The Standard Model strikes again! LHCb reports a significant shift in both b → s transitions with run 1&2 data. R(K) and R(K*) now in agreement with the lepton universality prediction of the SM in all q^2 bins! arxiv.org/abs/2212.09153

Mark your calendars for this Jan 10: The Institute at NYUAD | المعهد is hosting a theoretical physics public event with talks by Cumrun Vafa from Harvard University and Juan Maldacena & Nima Arkani-Hamed from Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) + discussion moderated by ME! This is an unmissable event, register!nyuadi.secure.force.com/Events/NYUEven…

As someone looking to break into string pheno in the next phase of my research career, this is a gold mine and I strongly recommend ⛏️