Official "Science News" Thread - Page 262

Nick · 2021-03-06, 19:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Till

A new paper on the Langlands program by Laurent Fargues and Peter Scholze:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13459

Some comments:

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12207

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/commen...one_direction/

Thanks for the links!

Till · 2021-03-06, 19:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick

Thanks for the links!

My pleasure. I wonder if this belongs to a more specific thread, since it's not only science but certainly math and seems to be related to number theory. (don't dare to classify it any further)

rogue · 2021-03-09, 16:54

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rogue · 2021-03-09, 18:59

The Universe Might Be One Big Neural Network, Study Finds

rogue · 2021-03-09, 20:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogue

The Universe Might Be One Big Neural Network, Study Finds

What I find interesting about this is that the Sci-Fi series Babylon 5 had a race, the Minbari, whose main religion was based upon the concept that the universe is conscious.

rogue · 2021-03-25, 16:29

WHAT IF ONLY PART — NOT ALL — OF YOUR BRAIN WERE TRANSPLANTED

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CRISPR and the Splice to Survive

U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the ‘First Lady of Physics’

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X-rays unlock secrets of the world's oldest computer

xilman · 2021-03-25, 18:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogue

U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the ‘First Lady of Physics’

Physicist, yes, but first is arguable.

A whole bunch of women did ground-breaking work in astrophysics decades earlier. Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Swan Levitt are only two out of several.

Viliam Furik · 2021-03-25, 19:18

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Originally Posted by xilman

Physicist, yes, but first is arguable.

A whole bunch of women did ground-breaking work in astrophysics decades earlier. Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Swan Levitt are only two out of several.

I think the author of the article meant it as "First Lady (to the President/Nobel prize winners)", an often forgotten person. The wording also indicates this, because otherwise "First Woman" would be more applicable.

Uncwilly · 2021-03-26, 00:24

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Originally Posted by Viliam Furik

I think the author of the article meant it as "First Lady (to the President/Nobel prize winners)", an often forgotten person. The wording also indicates this, because otherwise "First Woman" would be more applicable.

The author only used it in the title with no explanation. The USPS did not use that term.

Quote:

Originally Posted by xilman

Physicist, yes, but first is arguable.

Maybe it is a case of bad punctuation.

U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the First "Lady of Physics".
In the comments by USPS officials they indicated that they hope to issue more stamps honouring scientists and with an emphasis on diversity. So she would be first in the category "Ladies of Physics".

Dr Sardonicus · 2021-03-26, 13:04

The portrait on the stamp as shown here bears a striking resemblance to the cover illustration of Madame Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady of Physics Research by Tsai-Chien Chiang.

Quote:

Narrating the well-lived life of the "Chinese Madame Curie" - a recipient of the first Wolf Prize in Physics (1978), the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University, as well as the first female president of the American Physical Society - this book provides a comprehensive and honest account of the life of Dr Wu Chien-Shiung, an outstanding and leading experimental physicist of the 20th century.

Hardcover, 300 pages
Published November 1st 2013 by World Scientific Publishing Company (first published February 2nd 2012)
ISBN 9814374849
ISBN13 9789814374842

[W.C. Fields voice]It must be a coincidence...[/W.C. Fields voice]

EDIT: Just to be clear, "the First Lady of Physics" was an honorific nickname bestowed on Chien-Shiung Wu during her lifetime. She was also known as "Queen of Nuclear Research" and "the Chinese Madame Curie."

jasong · 2021-03-30, 20:15

Have you guys heard about the possible Large Hadron Collider physics discovery? I guess it'll be a few months before there's any official paper, they want to get that special odds number up past 5 before they claim it as an actual discovery. Sorry I can't remember the right word.

I'm only half-joking when I say,"Is my flying car finally going to become a reality?" I honestly have no idea what this fifth force actually does, if it exists.

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