Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
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Working on particle physics, quantum sensors, dark matter. Associate Prof at @IPPP_Durham @durham_uni, FLF @UKRI_News, Science board member @STFC_Matters
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Joined July 2021
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Generals shouldn't be military experts? Surgeons shouldn't be clinical experts? Airplanes shouldn't be flown by professionals? Or does all this only apply to scientists?.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts. Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
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I’m not a historian, but I think a bigger factor is the Humboldtian model that turned Universities from pure teaching into research centres decades before this happened in the US
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The glas of natural sciences is bottomless.
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This is just completely made up. If you learn mathematics you'll begin to respect it and the people that came up with it without snake oil salesmen pitching “respect for numbers”.
This should be the first thing taught in math. Respect for the numbers and the person/ country they came from.
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Gravitational wave frequency depends on black hole mass and orbit. LIGO detects signals from 10 Hz to kHz, which is within the audible range, so black hole mergers can be 'heard' by converting data into sound, even though they're not actually sound waves
@martinmbauer whats the frequency martin?.
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How gravitational waves distort space: What you see is a quadrupole wave. Conservation of energy–momentum rules out grav monopole and dipole radiation. In other words, gravity is mediated by a spin-2 tensor field (in contrast to a spin-1 field in the case of electromagnetism)
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Caught in the middle of a political battle, @BlackRock reaffirmed its focus is helping millions of Americans save for retirement. They warned that injecting politics from either side risks undermining financial performance.
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You‘re watching people with an abysmal grasp of history influencing millions and ascending into government and the fix is to have scientists even more ignorant of humanities?.
The hard sciences can probably be reformed but the humanities have been irrecoverably been corrupted by lunatics and ideologues. How can they coexist in the same institutions?. Is it time for a divorce?
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It‘s depressing to know this exists.
If you have anxiety, try scheduling your worry time earlier in the day so it doesn’t interfere with your sleep.
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Really? Bring it on. @arxiv has flagged plagiarism since before AI could even spell the word. I think AI generated slop is becoming a much, much bigger problem than plagiarism ever was.
I notice that most of my fellow academics get awfully quiet and uncomfortable when I say, “We should use the new tech to find all the plagiarism in academic publications.” 🤨.
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RT @InnaVishik: I don't normally give parenting advice, but you should sleep when the baby sleeps and write grant proposals when the baby w….
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The Big Bang predicts a hot dense state in the early universe. To say it‘s wrong because we don’t know whether there is a singularity at t=0 is like saying black holes don’t exist because we don’t know whether there actually is a singularity behind the event horizon.
@martinmbauer People in different contexts use the term "big bang" in a range from .(1) "the universe is expanding from a previous hot dense state" to.(2) "there was singularity at t=0". (1) is indeed firm consensus, but I think most theorists think (2) is an unphysical classical GR result.
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Brian is spot on here.
UFO true believers aren’t just wrong. They’ve built a techno-cargo cult around fake physics. As someone who’s spent 20+ years building experiments to test the actual laws of nature, here’s why “anti-gravity craft” is pseudoscience wrapped in Pentagon PowerPoints.
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We went from discovering gravitational waves to mapping the stellar graveyard. It’s like going from discovering the first dinosaur bone to unearthing a whole field of dinosaur skeletons in a decade.
Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR observing run are out today!. We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars. 📰 #O4IsHere #GWTC4
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RT @duetosymmetry: I'm sad to report that Rainer (Rai) Weiss passed away yesterday at age 92. Rai developed the design for LIGO, he and Kip….
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Nuclear X-ray clocks are the kind of technology that would be dismissed as pure science fiction in most science fiction universes.
Atomic clock: old news.Nuclear optical clock: ok, cool.Nuclear x-ray clock: hell yes
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The evidence for the Big Bang theory is so overwhelming, you might as well claim that it’s faith to believe in gravity.
Belief in the big bang is faith. Belief in the simulation theory is faith. Being a science enjoyoor doesn't absolve you of faithful beliefs. It just pushes them out a little further.
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Durham, a 10 min walk from the physics department.
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RT @zhigangsuo: In 1994, I went for my first sabbatical, at Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, in Stuttgart, Germany. My host, Manfr….
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Theory of phase transition Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo Part of a book on Thermodynamics You are invited to discuss this chapter on X To trace everyday experience of ice and water to entropy and energy, a...
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