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The Giant Impact Hypothesis: Formation of the Moon and Recent Advances in Modeling How did our Moon form? The answer involves a cataclysmic collision between a young Earth and a Mars-sized protoplanet...
Nuclear Energy: Fission & Fusion Nuclear energy represents humanity's most powerful tool for generating electricity. It comes in two fundamentally different forms: fission (splitting atoms) and fusion...
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) What if we could build nuclear reactors that are inherently safe, produce minimal long-lived waste, and run on fuel that's more abundant than uranium? Liquid Flu...
FRC Plasma Fusion Imagine a fusion reactor that works more like a smoke ring than a donut—a compact, potentially cheaper alternative to the massive tokamak reactors that have dominated fusion research...
Inertial Confinement Fusion: Compressing Matter to Fusion Conditions Imagine using the world's most powerful lasers to compress a tiny pellet of hydrogen to conditions hotter and denser than the cente...
Princeton Field-Reversed Configuration (PFRC): A Compact Fusion Approach While most fusion research focuses on massive devices like ITER, a smaller team at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has been...
Stellarator: The Twisted Path to Fusion While tokamaks dominate fusion research, another magnetic confinement approach has been quietly advancing: the stellarator. Unlike tokamaks, which use plasma cu...
Tokamak: The Dominant Approach to Magnetic Confinement Fusion For over half a century, the tokamak has been the workhorse of fusion energy research—a donut-shaped device that uses powerful magnetic fi...
Closed Poloidal Loops: Magnetic Field Topology in Fusion Plasmas Closed poloidal loops are a fundamental concept in magnetic confinement fusion, referring to magnetic field lines that form closed loop...
Optimization Algorithms: Finding the Best Solution From scheduling flights to training neural networks, optimization problems are everywhere. Given a complex landscape of possible solutions, how do we...
Airship to Orbit: A Radical Approach to Space Access What if we could reach orbit without rockets? The "airship to orbit" concept proposes using a massive lighter-than-air vehicle to ascend through th...
Europa: An Ocean World in the Outer Solar System Beneath Europa's icy surface lies a global ocean—possibly twice the volume of Earth's oceans—making this Jovian moon one of the most promising places t...
Ganymede: The Solar System's Largest Moon Ganymede is not just Jupiter's largest moon—it's the largest moon in the entire solar system, larger than Mercury and the only moon known to have its own magn...
Mars: The Red Planet and the Search for Life Mars has captured human imagination for centuries, and today it's the primary target in the search for life beyond Earth. While Mars is currently cold and ...
Titan: Saturn's Moon with Lakes and Seas !exposing-titan-surface-41e1f0.jpg Titan is unique in the solar system: the only moon with a thick atmosphere and the only world besides Earth with stable liqu...
Solar System Exploration Explore our solar system in 3D. Click on planets and moons to view articles about them. <SolarSystem3D /> Featured Articles Moon forming Impact - The giant impact hypothesis f...
Quantum Entanglement: The Spooky Connection When two particles become entangled, measuring one instantly affects the other, no matter how far apart they are. This "spooky action at a distance," as Ein...
Quantum Computing Series - Development Roadmap This document outlines the planned articles for the Quantum Computing series and their current status. Articles are organized by series and priority. Ser...
Quantum Computing Series Index This series provides a comprehensive exploration of quantum computing, from fundamental concepts to practical applications. Articles are organized into thematic series t...
Qubits: The Quantum Bit A qubit (quantum bit) is the fundamental unit of quantum information, analogous to the classical bit but with fundamentally different properties. While a classical bit can only...
The Ising Model: A Simple System with Profound Implications Imagine trying to understand how a magnet works by modeling it as a grid of tiny arrows that can point up or down, with each arrow influence...
Replica Symmetry Breaking: The Hidden Order in Disordered Systems When Giorgio Parisi solved the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model in 1979, he discovered something remarkable: the solution requ...
Statistical Mechanics: From Atoms to Emergent Behavior How do the random motions of trillions of atoms give rise to the predictable behavior of everyday objects? Statistical mechanics answers this que...
Science & Technology I have had a life long interest in science and technology, building detectors and the starts of an STM machine at home, inspired by amater science blogs and the Forrest Mims books...
Science Exploring physics, planetary science, quantum computing, and statistical mechanics through interactive simulations and detailed analysis. Topics Planetary Science & Space Planetary Science & S...
Tech I have had a life long interest in science and technology, building detectors and the starts of an STM machine at home, inspired by amateur science blogs and the Forrest Mims books. Since, I stud...