Quantum physicist. Lab website: https://nitter.cf/t.co/hRIZYMQ6BU; Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics at Uni Bremen; views are my own
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Michael Sentef retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
Michael Sentef retweeted
It's hard to argue with this. AI will be very, very good at the branch of physics that consists of useless theory building, but won't be good at all at the interrogation of nature that actually advances physics, not on its own, at least not for the time being.
It will still be an immensely powerful TOOL for physicists. I expect most will embrace this, and the few who don't will quickly become irrelevant.
Good question. I think part of the reason why there has not been any *major* impact on Physics yet can be boiled down to the following few points:
1. *Actual* Physics is not *that* dependent on math. Most of it is applying equations that have been derived a century plus ago to novel/particular problems.
2. More advanced mathematical Physics is still too hard to solve for AI and/or numerical solutions have been more than capable for decades to handle most *actual* Physics problems.
3. A lot of what passes for “advanced theoretical Physics” is just a form mathematical onanism with absolutely no relation to reality, so even if AI makes some kind of advancement there it will not make an iota of difference.
4. The *real hard* Physics breakthrough will require some deep insight that is not contained within the “convex hull” of current human knowledge, and thus largely invisible to the *current* AI systems.
Just my thoughts on the matter.
Thanks @NanoscaleViews for picking up the cavity SC result -- and intriguing that the same USTC group published two very notable SC results within a short amount of time. Exciting times (superconductivity research will never cease to be interesting)
🧪⚛️ Two exciting superconductivity results, plus news items about NSF, faculty positions at Rice, and a seed grant opportunity for grad students in nano. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/…
Michael Sentef retweeted
Ich fühle mich verarscht.
Das darf ich so sagen – denn es greift genau die Wortwahl auf, die die Schriftstellerin und ehrenamtliche Verfassungsrichterin #JuliZeh in einem großen @faznet Porträt über ihr Dorfleben im brandenburgischen Havelland nutzt. Im Artikel besucht das (1/13)
Michael Sentef retweeted
on the whole @arxiv flap about hallucinated references etc
you don't see the stuff we reject...
some of it is really really egregious
the decision to impose additional consequences is largely to throttle that stuff so n00bs and bad actors don't trash us trying repeatedly
Michael Sentef retweeted
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He was never impeached.
He was never charged with a crime.
He was never convicted of a crime.
He never fired his Attorney General.
He never started a new war.
He won a Nobel Peace Prize.
He’s not in the Epstein files.
Michael Sentef retweeted
Been saying this for a while, but will repeat it for emphasis: “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
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🚨 BREAKING: The Pope just called Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization “truly unacceptable.”
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The silence of Republicans as their president threatens to commit genocide is deafening.
They're all complicit.
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We’re just three people away from stopping Trump’s madman meltdown.
Three.
That’s the number of House Republicans who — if they chose to act — could change history. Right now.
By demanding he step down, voting to impeach, or flipping control of the House.
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decades, both have challenged our intuition. High-T superconductors have resisted a fully convincing microscopic understanding, while light-induced superconductivity has raised the even wilder question of whether coherent driving can create or stabilize superconducting-like order
Michael Sentef retweeted
For those of us who are impressed by fast talkers and fast thinkers as a sign of intelligence, a story about the endearing slowness of Niels Bohr’s thinking.
