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How an in-between quantum state could boost future technologies

Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. “I’m mainly a paper-and-pencil type of theorist, doing analytical calculations mostly,” Sun said. “My interests are pretty broad, but basically searching for new fundamental principles and new phenomena, especially new phenomena and new physics previously believed to be impossible.”

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Physicists observe an elusive form of the Hall effect for the first time

A giant anomalous Hall effect (AHE) has been observed in a nonmagnetic material for the first time, as reported by researchers from Japan. This surprising result was achieved using high-quality Cd3As2 thin films, a Dirac semimetal, under an in-plane magnetic field. By modulating the material’s band structure, the team isolated the AHE and traced its origin to orbital magnetization rather than spin, challenging long-held assumptions in condensed matter physics.

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Engineers send quantum signals with standard Internet Protocol

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania brought quantum networking out of the lab and onto commercial fiber-optic cables using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that powers today’s web.

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How a superfluid simultaneously becomes a solid

In everyday life, all matter exists as either a gas, liquid, or solid. In quantum mechanics, however, it is possible for two distinct states to exist simultaneously. An ultracold quantum system, for instance, can exhibit the properties of both a fluid and a solid at the same time.

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Clever algorithm enables real-time noise mitigation in quantum devices

Quantum researchers have deployed a new algorithm to manage noise in qubits in real time. The method can be applied to a wide range of different qubits, even in large numbers.

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“Man-made metal” found embedded inside ancient Geode has experts stumped

Depending on the size of the geode—the largest crystals can take a million years to grow. So how on Earth is there a metallic—apparently man-made—object embedded in one?

 

Throughout the years, researchers, archaeologists and ordinary people have come across a wealth of documented artifacts that have been ‘recovered’ from very ancient sediment, coal seams, minerals, stones and even geodes.

Many of these items are anything but orthodox, and point to the possibility that our civilization’s history is completely undocumented—or if you prefer, partially correct.

All of these discoveries seem to indicate that a vastly different story has been recorded in our history books and that the majority of mainstream scholars are unable to cope with the fact that there are things out there that completely rewrite our history.

So many pieces of evidence have been uncovered throughout the years but despite that fact, history is still not being recorded properly, and for whatever reason, it seems that many have attempted to conceal or suppress such discoveries. The question remains why? Why are such discoveries immediately disregarded by experts? And why is it so hard to keep an open mind about these findings?

The truth is that impossible artifacts have been found in the most unusual of places on Earth and one such discovery—of an apparently unbreakable piece of unknown metal—was discovered by a man named Mike Walters, an amateur geologist.

According to reports, Mike—who often comes across such geodes—found a strange Geode and after opening was left stumped with its content. A sort of metallic object resembling a ring was embedded inside of it. According to Mike’s email to coast-to-coast, “I have never found anything like this: it appears to be a polished metal of manmade origin.”

So, who on Earth could have created this extremely ancient metal object? And how is it possible that it got embedded within the Geode? Furthermore, the object inside the Geode has remained encapsulated for a period of 200 million years according to this statement.

So what are we looking at here? An Alien artifact? Evidence of an extremely advanced civilization that lived on Earth? Or is there another explanation?

Here’s Mike’s email to Coast-to-Coast AM:

My name is Mike Walters and I’m an amateur geologist. I often come across geodes. A geode can form in any cavity within a rock, but the most common method for geode formation is via gas bubbles that form in cooling ash beds.

The bubble gets “frozen” in place when the silica rich ash/dust hardens. The partial or complete filling of the bubble may occur immediately or even thousands to millions of years later and can encompass a variety of different minerals.

I have opened thousands of these and have found beautiful crystal and mineral deposits. However I have never found anything like this: it appears to be a polished metal of manmade origin (close-up above, full image below).

We use a special cutting disc to open the stones. I noticed something odd with the stone; the cutting disc would not cut through, I had to cut circumferentially around the Geode to get it opened and I found this object. I used sulfuric acid to dissolve the remaining minerals to free the object. Unfortunately the remaining Geode was dissolved, however, the metal object is intact. I plan to have a doctor friend take some x-rays of the object.

Mike Walters.


(H/T Coast-To-Coast AM)

Find out more: “Unbreakable Alien Ring” Found In Geode? (Among Others)

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BWC: Boston city employee uses Mass. state trooper’s TASER against him during traffic stop

After the suspect gained control of the Massachusetts State Police trooper’s TASER and deployed it against him, an off-duty Boston Police officer helped take the man into custody

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BWC: Suspect waves machete in traffic, hits LAPD cruisers, then charges at officers before fatal OIS

Officers fatally shot the man after he waved the machete at bystanders, fled the scene in an erratic pursuit and charged at cops with the blade

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Mass. State Police recruit who died during training was killed by blunt force injuries to the head

The autopsy states Enrique Delgado-García died of complications from “intracranial hemorrhages due to blunt impact injuries of the head in the setting of physical training exercises”

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Scientists confirm presence of standing shocks in black hole accretion flows

A team led by Prof. Mao Jirong from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with international researchers, has recently published a study in The Astrophysical Journal confirming the presence of a standing shock in low-angular-momentum black hole accretion modes.

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Izaña-2 joins the laser game to track space debris

In Tenerife, Spain, stands a unique duo: ESA’s Izaña-1 and Izaña-2 laser-ranging stations. Together, they form an optical technology testbed of the European Space Agency that takes the monitoring of space debris and satellites to a new level while maturing new technologies for commercialization.

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Perseverance exploration update: Over Soroya Ridge and onward

Perseverance has continued exploring beyond the rim of Jezero crater, spending time last week at Parnasset conducting a mini-campaign on aeolian bedforms. After wrapping up that work, three separate drives brought Perseverance further southeast to an outcrop named Soroya.

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A new theory of the universe’s origins without inflation

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Spain and Italy proposed a new model for the events that transpired immediately after the birth of the universe.

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CHORD will be a huge leap forward for Canadian radio astronomy

Construction is underway of CHORD, the most ambitious radio telescope project ever built on Canadian soil. Short for the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector, CHORD will give astronomers an unprecedented opportunity to explore some of the most exciting and mysterious questions in astrophysics and cosmology, from Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) and dark energy to the measurements of fundamental particles, and beyond.

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NYPD officer killed in hit-and-run while riding motorcycle to work

The 30-year-old officer was struck by a box truck and thrown onto the asphalt; his motorcycle then struck a wall and burst into flames

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