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Independent Research 🧐 | Quantum/Condensed Matter Physics ⚛️| ZPF Engineering 🛰| Inventor/Futurist 🛠| AVD (Applied Vacuum Dynamics) Founder, QVC and TDVT

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// APPLIED VACUUM DYNAMICS LABS // I am an independent researcher studying and developing new solutions in the realm of theoretical physics and materials science. QVC (Quantum Vacuum Catalyzation) is a new and original quantum theory to explain the world of Zero-Point fluctuations, and how they may be harnessed for enhanced fusion reactions and to invoke exotic phenomena in quantum materials, for enhanced computation, and new breakthroughs in nanotechnology. The vacuum fluctuations are treated as a 'catalyst', where quasiparticles couple in a lattice structure to effectively lower the coulomb barrier of electrons and increase odds of quantum tunneling. I am currently working to get this published on a physics journal for peer review, and eventually develop experimental prototypes for testing on the quantum scale, and eventually scaling up the phenomena to apply to macroscopic scale, so reliable fusion energy can be achieved. These physics are purely theoretical and remain hypothetical predictions until tested and proven experimentally. AVD currently has been given $1500 in grant funding without equity, enough to research and develop early stages of fusion engineering projects. I am looking for more opportunities soon so I can develop higher-quality prototypes and designs. Notice: All theories and hypotheses for QVC is my original intellectual works and is under AVD ownership. It is proprietary property, and reference or use of QVC should be clearly cited and given fair credit.
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Jared is our GOAT of the new age in America’s Spaceflight program. We will use SI-accelerated innovation for nuclear and quanta technologies, and the propulsion systems that empower the next generation of human space exploration systems. Ad Astra ✨
Today, we’re excited to welcome @POTUS to @NASAKennedy as we begin building a global stage worthy of America’s leadership in aerospace. CAPEWEEK will be a great American gathering for the people and technologies shaping the future of aerospace, bringing together builders, operators, entrepreneurs, engineers, pilots, investors, explorers, and hundreds of thousands of members of the public. There is no better stage for this than Kennedy Space Center and the runway that welcomed the Space Shuttle home. This is where America can show the world what we are building next.
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starting to feel like a real spaceship how it works: - flies like a plane without wings - electric fans blow high-speed air over a curved body for coanda lift - perfectly locked in hover with zero forward speed - thrust vectoring across the edfs for omnidirectional control all running on just 3 batteries next version gets the full-scale wings
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it is legal to fly Mach 3+ flight over America anticipating the return of the SR 71. Yes, it is true that President Trump took action to lift the decades-old ban on civilian supersonic flight over land in the United States. On June 6, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14304, titled "Leading the World in Supersonic Flight." The directive targets a 1973 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulation (14 CFR 91.817) that historically banned civilian aircraft from flying at or above Mach 1 over U.S. soil due to the disruptive noise of sonic booms. President Trump also mentioned this a few hours ago at his speech in Florida at NASA headquarters. I believe President Trump knows about all of the projects that NASA is working on including the SR 71 possible upgrade.  I continue to lift my eyes toward the sky as we wait for a true miracle the return of the SR 71. Written by Linda Sheffield.
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Just a reminder: There is absolutely no known reason for this layer known to any working scientist outside this group. No one I know knows why "shepherding" is needed here. No one has explained why David Gross (85) and Arthur Jaffe (88) are in almost every scene like this and have been since the 1980s. If asked who the 5 member panel intercepting this result would be, I would have gotten both of those names as my first two guesses. No one has explained why Ghislaine's father Robert Maxwell took control of this intercepting layer with Scientific Publishing and Permagon Press. No one has explained @pmarca and @bhorowitz's meeting at the Biden whitehouse where they were told that entire areas of theoretical physics were shutdown. Or why Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci were involved in "Swift and Devastating takedown(s)" of their colleauges. No one has explained why we couldn't figure out COVID's origins within a day or two. There is simply this layer since the Manhattan Project and its secret "Reference Committee" that makes sure that science doesn't proceed the way we are all taught in school. Simply put, this is as mysterious as it is outrageous. Who ordered this bizarre interception by Gross and Jaffe? Are we all supposed to pretend this isn't happening in science? "Oh yeah. This is all totally normal. Please take custody of this result and shepherd us like sheep with PhDs so we don't have any sudden violent advances. By all means, we need the octogenarians who have generously provided us leadership during this long four decade period of mysterious stagnation. Baaaaa." This does not add up. Unless it does. And it's mind-boggling.
Statement #2 of Yang-Mills Group, scientific collaboration shepherding AI result on existence of quantum chromodynamics & completions of the Standard Model, including subproblem proving the existence of the Quantum Yang-Mills theory. buff.ly/BwV89Tk
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#OnTheCover of this week’s issue: Calculated electron densities of the fractional Chern insulator ground state with different lattice modulation strengths. Check out the complete issue: go.aps.org/4zsuijp
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Researchers observed the mysterious phenomenon of ultraquantum turbulence in a quantum gas far from equilibrium, capturing insights to inform studies of ultracold quantum gases and condensation phenomena. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4sJE1PJ
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The quantum internet means we've created a communication system with instantaneous transmission. That means zero lag when playing video games or talking to people on the other side of the world. Academic physicists will struggle to accept this, as it's impossible classically.
We are going to call the quantum internet, the ‘Aethernet.’ It’s gonna be great. There will be no lag.
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Could liquid-crystal-like defects describe electrons? Our new paper connects LdGS geometry with Penrose twistors: exact bridges, topological obstructions, and tests of charge, dynamics and fermionic exchange. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23994… @grok What is the strongest next test? why?
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Spinor topological BCC crystal lattices with spin coupled quasiparticles within a layered material system. This is part of the environment within my theories for a topological solitonic spacetime framework.
Could liquid-crystal-like defects describe electrons? Our new paper connects LdGS geometry with Penrose twistors: exact bridges, topological obstructions, and tests of charge, dynamics and fermionic exchange. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23994… @grok What is the strongest next test? why?
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Four big problems stand between fusion energy and commercial reality. Our Magnetized Target Fusion commercial design aims to solve all four with one system: the liquid metal wall. It's our technology’s "secret sauce" with multiple key benefits: 🛡️ Protect the machine from neutron damage ️⚡ Breed the fusion fuel we need for the life of a power plant, and to start up new machines 🔋 Simplify energy conversion, efficiently capturing heat to make steam and spin a turbine 💰 Make fusion economical Our Chief Strategy Officer, Megan Wilson, breaks down why this innovation could be the key to practical fusion power.
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Today Physical Superintelligence PBC is announcing a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, one of the central open problems in quantum complexity, with major implications for quantum computing speedup. psi.inc/research/aaronson-am… Thread 👇
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Measuring topology from dynamics: Chern number from a linking number (AI-generated retrospective research program, needs further hypothetical verification and physical expansion for parameters, within TDVT vacuum theory.) In a Floquet-engineered hexagonal optical lattice of ultracold fermions, a strong quench from a topologically trivial band structure produces dynamical vortices in momentum space. The linking number between the closed trajectories of these dynamical vortices and the static Dirac-point vortices is experimentally shown to equal the ground-state Chern number CCC of the post-quench Hamiltonian. This establishes a direct, dynamical route to measure a static topological invariant and maps the Haldane-like phase diagram of the driven lattice.⁠Nature Rigorous mathematical framework The bare hexagonal lattice is described by H^0=−∑⟨l′l⟩JAB a^l′†a^l+∑l∈BΔAB n^l.\hat{H}_0 = -\sum_{\langle l'l\rangle}J_{AB}\,\hat{a}_{l'}^\dagger\hat{a}_l + \sum_{l\in B}\Delta_{AB}\,\hat{n}_l.H^0​=−⟨l′l⟩∑​JAB​a^l′†​a^l​+l∈B∑​ΔAB​n^l​. Circular inertial driving at frequency ω=ΔAB/ℏ−δ\omega=\Delta_{AB}/\hbar-\deltaω=ΔAB​/ℏ−δ and dimensionless strength α\alphaα generates the effective Floquet Hamiltonian H^F=−∑⟨l′l⟩JABeffa^l′†a^l+∑⟨⟨l′l⟩⟩AJAAeffa^l′†a^l+∑⟨⟨l′l⟩⟩BJBBeffa^l′†a^l+∑l∈BΔeffn^l,\hat{H}_{\mathrm{F}} = -\sum_{\langle l'l\rangle}J_{AB}^{\mathrm{eff}}\hat{a}_{l'}^\dagger\hat{a}_l + \sum_{\langle\langle l'l\rangle\rangle_A}J_{AA}^{\mathrm{eff}}\hat{a}_{l'}^\dagger\hat{a}_l + \sum_{\langle\langle l'l\rangle\rangle_B}J_{BB}^{\mathrm{eff}}\hat{a}_{l'}^\dagger\hat{a}_l + \sum_{l\in B}\Delta^{\mathrm{eff}}\hat{n}_l,H^F​=−⟨l′l⟩∑​JABeff​a^l′†​a^l​+⟨⟨l′l⟩⟩A​∑​JAAeff​a^l′†​a^l​+⟨⟨l′l⟩⟩B​∑​JBBeff​a^l′†​a^l​+l∈B∑​Δeffn^l​, with JABeff≃α2JABeiϕl′l,JAAeff=−JBBeff≃JAB2ℏω,Δeff=ℏδ+3JAB2ℏω.J_{AB}^{\mathrm{eff}}\simeq\frac{\alpha}{2}J_{AB}e^{i\phi_{l'l}},\qquad J_{AA}^{\mathrm{eff}}=-J_{BB}^{\mathrm{eff}}\simeq\frac{J_{AB}^2}{\hbar\omega},\qquad \Delta^{\mathrm{eff}}=\hbar\delta+3\frac{J_{AB}^2}{\hbar\omega}.JABeff​≃2α​JAB​eiϕl′l​,JAAeff​=−JBBeff​≃ℏωJAB2​​,Δeff=ℏδ+3ℏωJAB2​​. In the two-band pseudospin representation the quasimomentum Hamiltonian is h(k)=h0(k)+σ⋅h(k).\mathbf{h}(\mathbf{k})=h_0(\mathbf{k})+\boldsymbol{\sigma}\cdot\mathbf{h}(\mathbf{k}).h(k)=h0​(k)+σ⋅h(k). The lowest-band Chern number is the winding of the unit vector h^(k)\hat{\mathbf{h}}(\mathbf{k})h^(k) over the Brillouin zone: C=14π∫BZh^⋅(∂kxh^×∂kyh^) d2k.C=\frac{1}{4\pi}\int_{\mathrm{BZ}}\hat{\mathbf{h}}\cdot(\partial_{k_x}\hat{\mathbf{h}}\times\partial_{k_y}\hat{\mathbf{h}})\,d^2k.C=4π1​∫BZ​h^⋅(∂kx​​h^×∂ky​​h^)d2k. After a quench from a trivial initial state, the time-evolved Bloch vector ψ(k,t)\boldsymbol{\psi}(\mathbf{k},t)ψ(k,t) develops dynamical phase vortices whose trajectories form a closed contour in (kx,ky,t)(k_x,k_y,t)(kx​,ky​,t) space. The linking number Lk\mathrm{Lk}Lk of this contour with the static Dirac-point vortices satisfies Lk=C.\mathrm{Lk}=C.Lk=C. The instantaneous Chern number of the time-evolved state remains identically zero under unitary dynamics, as required by continuity of the Berry curvature under continuous evolution that never closes the gap. Experimental verification and tested proofs State tomography reconstructs the full Bloch vector for every k\mathbf{k}k after variable evolution times. Vortex trajectories are tracked; their linking number with the static Dirac points is counted directly from the data. The measured Lk\mathrm{Lk}Lk reproduces the theoretically expected Chern numbers C=0,±1C=0,\pm1C=0,±1 across the Floquet phase diagram, including the critical lines ℏδ≃−15JAB2/ℏω\hbar\delta\simeq-15J_{AB}^2/\hbar\omegaℏδ≃−15JAB2​/ℏω and ℏδ≃3JAB2/ℏω\hbar\delta\simeq3J_{AB}^2/\hbar\omegaℏδ≃3JAB2​/ℏω. Instantaneous Chern-number extraction at intermediate times confirms Cinst(t)=0C_{\mathrm{inst}}(t)=0Cinst​(t)=0, providing a rigorous experimental test of the topological protection of the dynamical invariant. Convergence with TDVT / QVC The central result—that a dynamical linking number of momentum-space vortices equals a static Chern number—maps cleanly onto the topological invariants of TDVT: The Hopf invariant QH=1(4π)2∫A⋅(∇×A) d3rQ_H=\frac{1}{(4\pi)^2}\int\mathbf{A}\cdot(\nabla\times\mathbf{A})\,d^3rQH​=(4π)21​∫A⋅(∇×A)d3r of a hopfion crystal is itself a linking number of pre-images. The optical-lattice experiment supplies a laboratory realization of the same homotopy classification π3(S2)=Z\pi_3(S^2)=\mathbb{Z}π3​(S2)=Z that classifies hopfions. Quench dynamics that generate and annihilate vortex pairs while preserving a global linking number parallel the defect-mediated annealing of skyrmion/hopfion lattices: local topological defects move and annihilate, yet the global topological charge (or linking) is conserved until a gap-closing transition. The Floquet drive that engineers a tunable Chern insulator is a concrete analogue of the external-field or current modulation used to anneal skyrmion lattices in Fe₃GaTe₂. In both cases an external periodic drive supplies the kinetic activation that allows the system to explore topological sectors while the underlying homotopy class remains invariant. The observation that the instantaneous Chern number stays zero under unitary evolution is the dynamical counterpart of the teleparallel condition (vanishing curvature, dynamical torsion) central to TDVT: geometry is carried by the torsion sourced by topological density rather than by a non-zero instantaneous curvature. Hypothetical ideation. If the same quench-and-linking protocol were realized in a three-dimensional optical lattice or in a magnetic hopfion-hosting material, the measured linking number would become the Hopf index of the emerging hopfion crystal. Field-cycling protocols already demonstrated for skyrmion annealing could then be combined with Floquet engineering to prepare, detect, and stabilize ordered hopfion lattices whose collective Goldstone modes generate an Unruh–Visser acoustic metric—precisely the laboratory pathway envisioned by TDVT/QVC. Closely related publications Theoretical proposal of the dynamical linking-number invariant (ref. 15 of the paper). Subsequent cold-atom measurements of Chern numbers via circular dichroism and transport in Hofstadter and Haldane models. Experimental observation of hopfion rings in bulk FeGe (Nature 2023) and construction of hopfion crystals (arXiv:2504.03981). Field- and strain-driven annealing of skyrmion lattices in van-der-Waals magnets (Nat. Commun. 2026 and Adv. Mater. 2025). Together these works establish a continuous experimental and theoretical thread from dynamical measurement of Chern numbers, through defect-mediated ordering of topological solitons, to the controlled realization of hopfion crystals that can host analogue spacetime.
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Cornell semiconductor sets record for widest bandgap Cornell engineers have fabricated a semiconductor with a bandgap above 7 electron volts, surpassing the previous record of roughly 6 eV and moving well into the colossal bandgap range. The material, silicon-doped aluminum gallium oxide, was grown as thin films and then built into a working diode and a field-effect transistor called the AlphaFET. The team used suboxide molecular-beam epitaxy to deposit the films layer by layer, adding silicon at low temperature to supply mobile electrons. The resulting films showed room-temperature conductivity more than 100 million times higher than previously reported for this class of materials, and the devices demonstrated current modulation across several orders of magnitude. Wider bandgaps let devices withstand stronger electric fields before breakdown, which points toward power electronics for electric vehicles, grid infrastructure and data centers. Growing the material on sapphire, a widely available substrate, also helps with scale. Researchers note that defects still limit performance, leaving clear room for improvement. nanotechnologyworld.org/post…
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🚀 NOW HIRING! The FAA is looking for the best and brightest Aerospace Engineers to join our commercial space transportation team! From licensing missions to overseeing commercial launches and reentries, you'll have a front row seat to the next era of American space innovation. Apply by Dec 4: faa.gov/spacejobs 🌏 @USDOT
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Today, we released the National Policy for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening to protect American biotechnology innovation while reducing the risk of misuse. This policy establishes a new, government-wide screening requirements for synthetic DNA and the equipment used to make it. It will ensure companies selling nucleic acid sequences and synthesis equipment know their customers and prevent the malicious use of these materials and tools. This policy strengthens our Nation’s biosecurity posture by establishing rigorous U.S. government-wide procurement screening and physical security standards for synthetic biology. It replaces outdated “self-attestation” systems with robust, independent verification. It creates a dynamic, SI-powered screening layer that assesses the biological risk from nucleic acid sequences, allowing the U.S. to anticipate and prevent malicious use and help stop dangerous gain-of-function research. @NIST will issue rigorous new screening standards and @HHSGov and @USDA will certify synthetic biology providers. Together, these measures will strengthen American biosecurity, safeguard responsible innovation, and establish a global standard for safe and transparent synthetic biology tools and research.
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Si-doped aluminum gallium oxide on a sapphire substrate produced via MBE AND has a bandgap exceeding 7 electron volts! 🤯🤯🤯
Cornell engineers have developed a semiconductor material with a record-setting bandgap and turned it into working devices, opening the door to electronics that handle much higher voltages while wasting less energy. Read more: news.cornell.edu/stories/202….
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we’re hiring dm me if you want to make electronics in space
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What happens if chaos continues for billions of years? Surprisingly, some systems can eventually return arbitrarily close to their initial states, no matter how unpredictable their motion becomes. Poincaré's Recurrence Theorem establishes this for almost all trajectories in bounded, measure-preserving systems. Related quantum recurrences can occur under suitable conditions. If the universe itself is a finite, isolated quantum system, similar recurrences might occur over unimaginably long timescales. But this remains theoretical, and whether the universe satisfies those conditions is unknown.
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