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aken from the April 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Pedram Roushan, from Google’s Quantum AI team in California, describes this elusive form of matter – and how it could be simulated on the company’s Sycamore quantum processor With their … Read More “Time crystals: the search for a new phase of matter” »
Video by The Nerdwriter (Evan Puschak) Reading “Leda and The Swan,” the sonnet by William Butler Yeats, is an experience—it’s a vivid and violent retelling of a Greek myth where Zeus, in the form of a swan, rapes Leda. In this video essay by Evan Puschak, on YouTube as The Nerdwriter, we get an extended … Read More “The Sexual Politics of Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan’” »
The amazing works of art and architecture known as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World serve as a testament to the ingenuity, imagination and sheer hard work of which human beings are capable. They are also, however, reminders of the human capacity for disagreement, destruction and, possibly, embellishment. As soon as ancient writers compiled … Read More “Sevens Wonders of the Ancient World” »
Ouroboros (or Uroboros) Ancient Greek alchemical symbol of a serpent eating his tail. The mystical work The Chrysopoeia of Kleopatra has a drawing of the Serpent Ouroboros eating his tail, with the text “One is All.” Another emblem illustrates the symbols of gold, silver, and mercury enclosed in two concentric circles with the text “One … Read More “Ouroboros (or Uroboros)” »
On Oct. 7, 2015, Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok opened the 2015/16 season of the PI Public Lecture Series with a talk about the remarkable simplicity that underlies nature. Turok discussed how this simplicity at the largest and tiniest scales of the universe is pointing toward new avenues of physics research and could lead to … Read More “The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything” »
