Pedro Fernandes
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Pedro Fernandes
@pedrogsfernandes.com
Postdoc @ University of Heidelberg working on gravity and black holes 🤘🏻

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Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault!
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January 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Pedro Fernandes
The Reverend John Michell had his friend Henry Cavendish present a paper to the Royal Society #OTD in 1783, that included the first prediction of what (given the understanding of gravity at the time) you might call a Black Hole.
(1/n) 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
November 27, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Reposted by Pedro Fernandes
To accompany all those BlueSky science/academia #starterpacks, let’s share introductions to the literature of our fields

Gravitational-wave papers (created with observablehq.com/@guillaume-l...)

When the intro starts "We have opened a new window" you know you can skip a couple of paragraphs
November 19, 2024 at 10:16 AM