6 days ago
From this very cool paper:
" In an ironic twist, this effectively realizes Richard Feynman’s analogy of the seemingly impossible task of ‘figuring out a pocket watch by smashing two together and observing the flying debris’. "
6 days ago
In a rhyme with the uncertainty principle, you can either have your watch but have only a poor idea of what it even looks like, or momentarily observe the real shape that it once had.
6 days ago
Am one of the authors cited in the paper. I think the real opportunity for this type of inverse problem estimation work is resolving the shape and fluctuations of the nucleon.
6 days ago
It's discussed in this Nature podcast
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03646-1
One of the investigators on this project is a guest on this segment. He does a nice job of describing it in an understandable way
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The pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06625