The humanities can help make physics greener

J de Swart, AC Thresher, CA Argüelles - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
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Key science goals for the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope

MD Johnson, K Akiyama, L Blackburn, KL Bouman… - Galaxies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has led to the first images of a supermassive black
hole, revealing the central compact objects in the elliptical galaxy M87 and the Milky Way …

[HTML][HTML] Sustaining Local Opposition to Big Science: A Case Study of the Thirty Meter Telescope Controversy

AL Rüland - Technology in Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Big Science projects, which are extremely costly and typically revolve around large and
complex instruments, are increasingly common in research. Proponents often frame Big …

Robustness and the Event Horizon Telescope: the case of the first image of M87

J Doboszewski, J Elder - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.16323, 2024 - arxiv.org
We examine the justification for taking the Event Horizon Telescope's famous 2019 image to
be a reliable representation of the region surrounding a black hole. We argue that it takes …

Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science

A Marcoci, AC Thresher, NCM Martens… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
The divide between the natural sci-ences and the humanities and social sciences in the
West is a recent one. Newton considered himself a 'natural philosopher', Thomas Hobbes …

Criteria for identifying and evaluating locations that could potentially host the Cosmic Explorer observatories

KJ Daniel, JR Smith, S Ballmer, W Bristol… - Review of Scientific …, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
Cosmic Explorer is a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatory that is
being designed in the 2020s and is envisioned to begin operations in the 2030s together …

Debating the Reliability and Robustness of the Learned Hamiltonian in the Traversable Wormhole Experiment

G Weinstein - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00697, 2023 - arxiv.org
The paper discusses Daniel Jafferis et al.'s" Nature" publication on" Traversable wormhole
dynamics on a quantum processor." The experiment utilized Google's Sycamore quantum …

Gravitational Waves and the Galactic Potential

F Duque - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.03850, 2023 - arxiv.org
Over the next decade, third-generation interferometers and the space-based LISA mission
will observe binaries in galactic centers involving supermassive black holes with millions of …

Revisiting Nancy Cartwright's Notion of Reliability: Addressing Quantum Devices' Noise

G Weinstein - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04881, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper serves as an addendum to my previously published work, which delves into the
experimentation with the Google Sycamore quantum processor under the title" Debating the …