Physics

Are Black Holes The Source of Dark Energy? Possibly, Just Possibly.

R ecent research has proposed that some black holes are the astrophysical origin of dark energy.  Is this true and what exactly does this mean?  What is dark energy in the first place?  These are all complex questions, and this short report is just a thin ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 24 2023 - 12:57pm

More Ideas For Muon Tomography

Muon tomography is an application of particle detectors where we exploit the peculiar properties of muons to create three-dimensional images of the interior of unknown, inaccessible volumes. You might also want to be reminded that muons are unstable elemen ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 7 2023 - 11:12am

Northern Lights

These days I am spending a few months in northern Sweden, to start a collaboration with computer scientists and physicists from Lulea University of Technology on neuromorphic computing (I'll soon write about that, stay tuned). The rather cold weather ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 17 2023 - 3:54am

Third MODE Workshop, Princeton July 24-26 2023

I am exploiting my column today to advertise a workshop that the collaboration I lead, MODE, is organizing at Princeton University this coming July. The workshop, the third of its series, aims to bring together physicists and computer scientists to join fo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 24 2023 - 10:29am

Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter with Gravitational Waves

D ark matter is thought to be 85% of all the matter in the universe but we have no idea what it is. All we know is that there appears to be something that exerts gravitational forces that behave like ordinary matter. One theory is that there are very old ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 25 2023 - 2:21pm