Category: media & arts
Is Modern Physics Hideously Incoherent? Just the Opposite is True per Quantum Information Theory!
Quantum entanglement leads many researchers to believe that special relativity and quantum mechanics are in tension or outright conflict with each other. In this talk at the 2026 International Quantum Structures Association’s biennial conference, I explain why just the opposite is true.
Prof Coecke’s video demo of his quantum guitar whence the intro music for this video series: • A Quantum Guitar demo by Prof Bob Coecke /.…
Here are some relevant publications:
“Unifying Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics via Adynamical Global Constraints,” W.M. Stuckey and Michael Silberstein. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2,948, 012009 (2025).
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10…
“No Preferred Reference Frame at the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics,” W.M. Stuckey, Timothy McDevitt, and Michael Silberstein. Entropy 24, 12 (2022).
https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/1/12
AIE Webinar — Making Horsegirls
Go behind the scenes of the acclaimed independent film Horsegirls with the creative team that brought this remarkable story to life. Join moderator, Devin Morrissey as he is joined by writer and director Lauren Meyering, lead actress Lillian Carrier, producers Michael Sherman, Mackenzie Breeden, and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Autism Sensitivity Coordinator Chloe Estelle for an engaging conversation about the filmmaking process—from developing the story and creating authentic performances to producing, promoting, and ensuring an inclusive production environment.
Whether you’re interested in filmmaking, storytelling, or advancing authentic representation of neurodivergent individuals in entertainment, this webinar offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from the talented team behind Horsegirls.
Do your dreams have smells? New study on ‘blind minds’ reveals vast differences in imagination
It’s common to think we all have similar experiences of life. But the more we learn about other people’s hidden thoughts, the more evidence there is that this is untrue. For instance, not everyone has the same ability to have imagined sensations. Most people can visualize—they can have imagined experiences of seeing people and scenes that aren’t there. But not everyone can.
We are both visual aphantasics, which means we can’t voluntarily imagine seeing things in our minds’ eyes. When we read a book, neither of us can imagine seeing the characters.
Yet other types of our waking imagined experiences are quite different. Derek can imagine hearing snippets of music at will, but Loren has a silent mind. She can’t even imagine hearing herself talk. Loren can have vivid imagined feelings of touch, taste and smell, but Derek doesn’t have any of these.
Using mechanical vibrations instead of magnetic memory for quantum computing
Quantum computers still face limits when it comes to storing information. Researchers at ETH Zurich are now turning to mechanical vibrations rather than electromagnetic memory. Their new vibrating memory can store significantly more information in a smaller volume. Combined with a suitable computer architecture, it also enables the efficient solution of complex computational problems.
The computer works almost like a guitar. The ETH Zurich quantum physicist Yiwen Chu and her team use tiny mechanical vibrations to store and process information. These vibrations behave much like the vibrating strings of a guitar, which produce musical notes.
What sounds like music is, in fact, quantum physics. The vibrations that Chu and her team work with are far beyond the range of human hearing. They occur deep inside a quantum chip, where they are used to store quantum information.
Confirmed! We Are Surrounded by Invisible Black Holes
The solar system may look isolated, but the Milky Way could be filled with rogue black holes drifting silently between the stars. These invisible black holes do not shine or reflect light, making them almost impossible to detect unless their gravity bends the light of a distant star. To learn more about rogue black holes near our solar system, you can watch this video.
Paperlink: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction.
00:52 The Galaxy Is Full of Invisible Black Holes.
02:55 The Nearest Black Hole May Be Closer Than We Think.
06:16 How Scientists Search for Something That Emits No Light.
09:27 Outro.
09:44 Enjoy.
MUSIC TITLE: Starlight Harmonies.
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Even Hideo Kojima is afraid that ‘digital data will no longer be owned by individuals’ and that access to art that we love ’may suddenly be cut off‘
“The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep videogames playable after they stop being provided commercially. This is due, also, to existing intellectual property rights. Under EU copyright law, rights holders enjoy exclusive rights over their creations.”
Players are (quite rightly) worried that without physical media their beloved games, or any kind of art, can be ripped away from them at a moment’s notice. “We will not be able to freely access the movies, books, and music that we have loved,” Kojima adds. “I would be a have-not. That’s what I’m afraid of. This is not greed.”
Ryan Janzen: Jarring is What We Need
Fourteen years ago, I sat down with Ryan Janzen, and his title said it all:
Jarring is What We Need.
Ryan is an engineer and a composer. He builds bridges between electrical #engineering, #physics, and #music. He also plays the hydraulophone, an instrument you sound by touching jets of water.
Think about that. Not strings. Not keys. Water.
Most people chase technology for its own sake. Ryan asked a harder question. Why are we building this? What is it for? He worried openly about careerism in both the arts and the sciences, about the quiet drift toward doing things simply because we can.
That worry has aged well. In an age of #AI abundance and endless capability, the scarce resource is not the How. It is the Why.
Scientists Visualize the Complex, Dynamic World Inside a Human Cell
The interactive image was created for Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., and was inspired by the work of David Goodsell, a professor of computational biology at Scripps Research Institute, who is widely recognized for his vibrant watercolor paintings of cells and viruses. Alongside some artistic interpretation, portions of the image were digitally rendered using datasets gathered through scientific methods.
“This 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell is modeled using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets for all of its molecular actors,” explains McGill. “It is an attempt to recapitulate the myriad pathways involved in signal transduction, protein synthesis, endocytosis, vesicular transport, cell-cell adhesion, apoptosis, and other processes.”
Although some online are calling it “the most detailed image of a human cell ever captured” Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill emphasize that it’s really an educational tool. Elements of the cell have been simplified, and in some cases “squashed together,” to help viewers better understand what happens inside it.