Interesting post found on Matrix today, :-

New Superheavy Element Synthesis Points to Long-Sought ‘Island of Stability’ you can read more about this in the scientific American article published on 24th September

Seems interesting, as I read a paper a few years ago suggesting element 120 was present in Przybylski's Star. In fact, a number of papers on arXiv have suggested some interesting properties and chemistry.

Here is a link to the Matrix Physics Room where I found the link mentioned above

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#Chemistry,#Elements,#SuperHeavy

This was posted to the MPI for Gravitational Physics Fediverse account today. There is an open day at the Gravitational wave detector on the 31st August, so just sharing here.

Further details can be found here. I have quoted some of the text from the above site below.

Open Day at GEO600

Visit the gravitational-wave detector near Sarstedt on 31 August 2024

On Saturday, August 31, 2024, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and the Institute for Gravitational Physics of Leibniz Universität Hannover invite you to visit the German-British gravitational-wave detector GEO600 near Sarstedt. Between 12:00 and 16:00 CEST, visitors can speak with researchers at the detector site about the current state of gravitational-wave astronomy, the crucial contributions of GEO600 as a think tank of international research, and visit the detector.

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#Physics,#GravitationalWaveDetector,#OpenDay,#Science,#Research

A nice guide posted to the fediverse with a guide to black holes.

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#Science,#Physics,#BlackHole,#Astronomy

What Is Symmetry in Physics?

A short article published on Science Daily explaining what symmetry is in Physics.

Understanding symmetries and broken symmetries is important for understanding the physical properties of matter and our universe.

Hopefully this is useful and or interesting to readers.

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This was posted to the Fediverse earlier today, I replied to the post with a link to the resource [1]. As mentioned, there are a good few papers on arXiv [2]

This is a great way to bring together related resources so they can be found quickly and easily.

Links

1 Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics 2 arXiv

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Positronium is a particle that has no actual nucleus, but has a positive (positron) and negative (electron) particle. The positron is antimatter as it has the opposite charge to an electron, which is negatively charged.

Scientists have found a way to freeze the particle with lazers, which will allow further study.

You can read a little more on the BBC Website. While the research was published in Physical Review Letters.. Article can be found here

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#Physics,#Letters,#Research,#Electron,#Antimatter,#Positron,#Positronium

I have been catching up on these lectures as they are fascinating. The LISA talk was also good as it gave a lot of background information as to the science behind this. Exciting times to come, even though it may be a decade before the mission is launched in to space.

So far I have watched:-

• A Tapestry of Gravity: LISA and the Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• Webb Space Telescope: The First Year of Science

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• STSCI
• JWST
• LIGO
• LISA

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This is another upcoming project, which will see a huge space based laser antenna created to help in the search for gravitational waves.

You can read more about this here it may be possible to invite someone to the STEM group to talk more about the science behind this.

I think the LIGO project is similar to this. There is certainly a lot of interest in Gravitational waves at the moment.

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#Science,#Physics,#GravitationalWaves,#Observatory,#Antenna

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Paper on the production of Ultraheavy particle dark matter

Daniel Carney et al. * SciPost Phys. Core 6, 075 (2023)

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