quantumly entangled things

literally a nerd blog. also aesthetic blog because like. tell me quantum physics isn't pretty oh exactly you can't // lumina (short for luminiferous aether) ;P // she/her

[quantumly-entangled-things]

if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

- Richard Feynman

follow me on my journey to never ever think I understand quantum mechanics :)

lumina (not actually short for luminiferous aether)

she/her

quantum physics obsession start date: Dec. 10th, 2021

asks are always open - please do send in asks!!! give me ALL the questions <3

and I'm still learning all this stuff so if I post something with the wrong information call me out on it so I can do more research! if you'd like to correct me with an explanation you can totally do that too

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life update! I’m currently in uni studying none other than physics and astronomy. :) still intending to go into particle physics but we’ll see where I end up!

year: 3rd

[apod]

2025 December 7

The Sun and Its Missing Colors Image Credit: Nigel Sharp (NSF), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF

Explanation: It is still not known why the Sun’s light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun’s light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun emits light of nearly every color, it appears brightest in yellow-green light. The dark patches in the featured spectrum arise from gas at or above the Sun’s surface absorbing sunlight emitted below. Since different types of gas absorb different colors of light, it is possible to determine what gasses compose the Sun. Helium, for example, was first discovered in 1868 on a solar spectrum and only later found here on Earth. Today, the majority of spectral absorption lines have been identified - but not all.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251207.html

[quiltofstars]

NGC 3347 (let), NGC 3354 (center) and NGC 3358 (right) // Gerould Kern

[livingforstars]

Surveyor At Mars - October 6th, 1997.

"Mars Global Surveyor achieved Martian orbit on September 11th, 1997, and began aerobraking into its final mapping orbit, a process that would take until March next year. Anticipating the labors ahead, Mars Orbital Camera operators had begun acquiring test images. This dramatic detail in an image shows a 10 mile wide swath of a highland valley, part of the Nirgal Vallis system. The original image was recorded from an altitude of 250 miles at a resolution of about 30 feet per pixel, and has been rotated to represent the camera's perspective view. Were these valleys formed by flowing water or did collapse and erosion caused by ground water produce the channel? What other processes were important? Time will tell."

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how lucky am i to be offered not one but TWO summer research opportunities???

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Corona Australis, Dusty Stars

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nov. 26, 2025: got my first coop job!

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dec. 11, 2025: got a summer internship???!!! however i will have to decide between this and coop job :(

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nov. 26, 2025: got my first coop job!

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HI so i'm starting a new series of posts about fun physics stories that i hear from my professors! today's is about chandrasekhar. yes. THE chandrasekhar of the chandrasekhar limit.

legend goes...

Apparently, Chandrasekhar was a firm disbeliever in the theory of inflation. He would attend physics colloquia, as physicists do, and one day, one of the developers of the theory (either Andrei Linde or Alan Guth) was giving a talk on it. Chandrasekhar also had a habit of sitting in the middle of the room.

Fig. 1: Chandrasekhar, shown as a smiley face in the middle. Linde/Guth, shown as an inflated (haha) face at the top, where the lectern would be located.

Anyways. Guth/Linde was giving his talk. Midway through, Chandrasekhar decides he's had enough, and straight up LEAVES. He hobbles out with his cane, passing by half the people in his row, walks down the side ramp to the door, and slowly pushes open the very creaky door. Every single person is watching.

So he leaves. Guth/Linde get back into the flow of the talk. A few minutes later, the room hears another creak.

Chandrasekhar hobbles back in, and slowly makes his way past half his row, back into his seat. He doesn't sit back down. He just picks something up.

Turns out he'd left his umbrella.

[quantumly-entangled-things]

being in a physics program at a university is so funny because I will take a class from a sweet old professor and then realize one year later that he created an astronomical catalogue and has clusters named after him

[quiltofstars]

LBN 468 // Marc Whitsett

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LDN 1642 // Daniel Stern

[browneyedgenius]

being a ta is so silly because i will post assignment grades and then instantly worry the class will hate me

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i'm calling it right now in 20 years i'm gonna be a professor and worry about the exact same thing

[browneyedgenius]

being a ta is so silly because i will post assignment grades and then instantly worry the class will hate me

[quiltofstars]

A floating prominence near the Sun on August 10, 2025 // Robert Schumann

[quantumly-entangled-things]

​omg how does this happen I have GOT to learn

[wanchotheponcho]

Every day is a reason to celebrate 🥂🥳

[virtualgirladvance]

happy birthday alan!!!!

[wizardshark]

High level physics is so fucked up it's indistinguishable from epic level magic

[ranidspace]

funny thing i just found out:

planck length: the point where measuring distances between things is impossible due to forming literal black holes if you try to put anything that close together regardless of mass

planck time: a length of time which anything smaller is basically meaningless and nothing we know can describe anything that happens in a timespan shorter than it

planck temperature: the highest possible temperature before the wavelength of light is shorter than a planck length and the temperature itself forms a black hole

planck mass: "about the mass of a flea's egg". startlingly normal.