10 months 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’. "
10 months 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.
10 months 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.
10 months 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
10 months ago
The pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06625