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Visions of Future Physics
...in particle physics, questioning whether its small particle physics community can grow quickly enough over the next two decades to run a project so enormous and complex, even with the...
A Debate Over the Physics of Time
...modern physics: Einstein’s masterpiece, the general theory of relativity, and the Standard Model of particle physics. The laws that underlie these theories are time-symmetric — that is, the physics they...
Jammed Cells Expose the Physics of Cancer
...physics community there’s momentum,” Fredberg said. “If the physicists are on board with it, the biologists are going to have to. Cells obey the rules of physics — there’s no...
A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
...physics department,” she said. “I didn’t see myself there.” She thought she would “apply for Ph.D. programs because good universities don’t offer master’s degrees in physics, but really I’d do...
19 Women Leading Math and Physics
...career in physics or become a high school teacher. “There were no women in the faculty at Stanford at that time in the physics department,” Quinn said. “I didn’t see...
Mining Black Hole Collisions for New Physics
When physicists announced in February that they had detected gravitational waves firsthand, the foundations of physics scarcely rattled. The signal exactly matched the expectations physicists had arrived at after a...
Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics?
...scientific journals, with a sense that they say something about the systems of interest. But do they? And how do we know? As Stephan Hartmann, philosopher of physics at Ludwig...
How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility
...some initial conditions. But there are some phenomena in nature that you can’t quite capture in terms of trajectories — phenomena like the physics of life or the physics of...
A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics
...physics, researchers are looking to higher symmetries to assist with one of the biggest open questions of all: what principles organize physics beyond the Standard Model. “I want to get...