Category: Physics

  • Nuclear power around the world

    United Kingdom The UK’s nuclear power landscape is at a critical juncture. The country faces the imminent retirement of a significant portion of its existing nuclear fleet, which currently provides around 9 GW of capacity. This decline in capacity poses a challenge to the UK’s energy security and its decarbonization goals. While the government has…

  • The proton “spin crisis”

    [[note: this is an attempt at an AI language model explain some quite difficult concept. >95% of this was AI generated..]] The proton spin crisis is a long-standing puzzle in physics that arises from our understanding of the proton’s internal structure and its spin. What is spin? Spin is a fundamental property of elementary particles,…