Tom Hartsfield

Tom Hartsfield

Big Think Contributor

Tom Hartsfield is a PhD physicist. He lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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Hard Science
The strange number 1/137 shows up everywhere in physics. What does it mean?
Does it have a deeper significance — or is it just a number?
Tom Hartsfield
Life
The weird plan to hide a “backup copy” of life in lava tubes on the Moon
Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.
Tom Hartsfield
Hard Science
Earth’s rotation is wavering. Here’s why we need leap seconds.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
Tom Hartsfield
Hard Science
Click chemistry and bioorthogonality win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Tom Hartsfield
generative ai
The Future
How do DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other forms of generative AI work?
Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.
Tom Hartsfield
ai physics
Hard Science
No, AI did not discover a new type of physics
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
Tom Hartsfield
chess cheating
High Culture
If Hans Niemann cheated Magnus Carlsen at chess, this is how we would know
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
Tom Hartsfield
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