Starship flight #6, Evo lets decoding and design in biology leap forward, the nuclear renaissance continues, astronomers discover a cosmic compound lens, how long to ASI?...and a whole lot more.
Very cool, as always. Today, my fave was the picture of a photon. I thought I'd check out the paper, but was quickly dissuaded by the unintelligible abstract. Will stick to the popular science articles until my physics degree arrives in the next cereal box:
"We present a comprehensive second quantization scheme for radiative photonic devices. We canonically quantize the continuum of photonic eigenmodes by transforming them into a discrete set of pseudomodes that provide a complete and exact description of quantum emitters interacting with electromagnetic environments. This method avoids all reservoir approximations and offers new insights into quantum correlations, accurately capturing all non-Markovian dynamics. This method overcomes challenges in quantizing non-Hermitian systems and is applicable to diverse nanophotonic geometries."
I think the Starship launch damaged an antenna on the tower and they lost communication. Out of an abundance of caution, they aborted landing at the tower.
Great outcome actually. 1) It’s easily fixed and prevented in the future. 2) The “abort mechanism” was tested and worked perfectly.
Very cool, as always. Today, my fave was the picture of a photon. I thought I'd check out the paper, but was quickly dissuaded by the unintelligible abstract. Will stick to the popular science articles until my physics degree arrives in the next cereal box:
"We present a comprehensive second quantization scheme for radiative photonic devices. We canonically quantize the continuum of photonic eigenmodes by transforming them into a discrete set of pseudomodes that provide a complete and exact description of quantum emitters interacting with electromagnetic environments. This method avoids all reservoir approximations and offers new insights into quantum correlations, accurately capturing all non-Markovian dynamics. This method overcomes challenges in quantizing non-Hermitian systems and is applicable to diverse nanophotonic geometries."
Thanks Shoni! I'll be honest, I skim over that stuff (at best).
Good to have the articles to tell us what it means!
This is me, too! I'm too dumbed down for it. 🤣😵💫
I think the Starship launch damaged an antenna on the tower and they lost communication. Out of an abundance of caution, they aborted landing at the tower.
Great outcome actually. 1) It’s easily fixed and prevented in the future. 2) The “abort mechanism” was tested and worked perfectly.
Now let’s land a skyscraper on the Moon!
Can't wait to see it!