Tom Hartsfield

Tom Hartsfield

Big Think Contributor

Tom Hartsfield is a PhD physicist. He lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
A man in a suit standing next to a display of batteries showing signs of "nobel disease.
It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
A black and white photo of a metal barrel with an lk-99 arrow pointing to it.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
A poster showcasing breakthroughs in cancer research with the words "cancer cured" in red and white.
Science news presents a flood of breakthroughs and discoveries that promise to change our lives. They rarely do.
a man in a lab coat looking at a machine.
The familiar terrain of solids, liquids, and gases gives way to the exotic realms of plasmas and degenerate matter.