by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 10, 2026 | Physics
The Nitrogen Buckyball: The “Most Expensive Substance on Earth” and the Atomic Clock It Was Meant to Shrink Thomas Lee Abshier, ND | 10 October 2026 A Headline That Keeps Coming Back Every year or two, a story circulates under some version of the title...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 10, 2026 | Physics
The Gyrotron: From Fusion Plasma to the Rock Beneath Our Feet A Machine With Two Callings Thomas Lee Abshier, ND | 10 October 2026 Few devices span two frontiers of energy research the way the gyrotron does. It was built to heat the plasma inside fusion reactors to...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 10, 2026 | Physics
A Type I Superconductor That Breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry: YbSb₂ Explained Oct 9, 2026 · @Thomas Lee Abshier, ND Summary in plain language A team led by researchers from IISER Bhopal reports, in Physical Review Letters (2026), that the metal ytterbium diantimonide...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 9, 2026 | Physics
The Nucleus Starts Keeping Time Oct 9, 2026 · @Thomas Lee Abshier, ND What happened On 7 October 2026, Nature published two papers describing the first clocks that keep time by the rhythm of an atomic nucleus rather than the electrons around it. One came from Thorsten...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Sep 20, 2026 | Physics
Pseudoscalars, Polar Vectors, and Axial Vectors Source: Copilot exchange What is a pseudoscalar? A pseudoscalar is a quantity that behaves like an ordinary scalar under rotations, but changes sign under a parity transformation (mirror reflection or spatial inversion)....
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