In my last publication I talked
about a comet that has not been spotted in over 50 thousand years. I hope you
had the opportunity to see it. I got a small glimpse of it in the sky, and it
was an experience I will treasure forever. Ever since then I found some great
news in the world of science I wanted to write about; the upcoming solar
eclipse in 2023 and 2024 (I should keep an eye on this). I attended a webinar
about career for physicist that was very educational and interesting to know
that the career path does not necessarily has to lead to academics, as a
physicist you can find yourself working in many other places that find your skills
useful. Finally, I found an article about how scientist at CERN made the most
precise measure measurement of the second yet and it could lead to changing the
number of hours in a day from 24 to 25 hours (Of course this was just an April’s
fool prank, but it got me thinking).
Unfortunately, I got
caught up in work, sickness and other things that made it hard for me to sit
down and write about it. It's not that I couldn't write it, I can sit and write
about the rumors I heard or my personal thoughts on the matter, but I wanted to
gather more information to provide a more compelled and truthful account of the
articles I read, and not something superficial. To do this requires time
because I have to find the articles, read them, verify the sources, ... and the
task takes more than a few mere hours. I am very bad at managing my time. I
always struggle finding time to do things I want to do, but I am working on
this. So, I decided to change the approach of things. I will dedicate some time
daily to reading scientific articles and creating a summary of them which then,
I will compile into an article that I can use for publication here. You can
read these summaries in my Twitter account where I will be posting daily, and
you'll know when my next publication will be done.
Also, I will be writing
about the projects I am working on. Right now, I have started reading the book “Cycles
of Time” by Roger Penrose and I will be writing about it as I go through it so
you can see my progress. This book was recommended to me by one of my college professors
a long time ago and although I have years with the book in my possession, I have
never found the time to fully read it, my apologies to my college professor. Another
cool project I found was in the YouTube channel of CERN lectures where they
have small courses on some interesting topic, and I decided to give it a try so
you may see writing about Quantum Computing which is the first course I will be
doing. I may be doing other small projects and I will write about it so if you
are interested in this kind of thing let me know in the comments.
I am doing this to bring
you interesting information about what real science is working on right now,
not like those scientific demo shows that are made with the intention of popularizing
and getting people’s attention by showing “cool science experiment”, this will
be more realistic information and you may find this more appealing, hopefully.
The second reason is to keep up to date
with everything that's going on as I consider is of vital importance for me as
a scientist to keep up with what is happening in the world of science, what new
discoveries have been made and what topics are research worthy, after all I plan
of getting my PhD one day and I will need to have a strong background not just
in physics but also in other areas. Hope you find this helpful and get you access
to the latest in scientific news.
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