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How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality
...far removed from this branch of physics. The development of quantum mechanics showed otherwise. Experiments indicated that light, which had been thought of as an electromagnetic wave, sometimes behaves like...
In a Numerical Coincidence, Some See Evidence for String Theory
...at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, and the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “So these corrections are our first way to tell...
2021’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
It was a big year. Fermilab discovered possible evidence of new physics with the muon G-2 experiment. Physicists created a time crystal, a new phase of matter that appears to...
The Year in Physics
...the muon. They found that the experimental value differs from the predictions of the Standard Model of particle physics by a wide margin, confirming an anomaly first hinted at in...
Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time
...Thorne, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology whose work on gravitational waves earned him part of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. “It is connected ultimately to the...
The Algorithm That Lets Particle Physicists Count Higher Than Two
...saw terms merge together and melt away by the thousands. In the 19 computable expressions that remained, he glimpsed the future of particle physics. Today the reduction procedure, known as...
A New Theory for Systems That Defy Newton’s Third Law
...systems are elegantly described with statistical mechanics, the branch of physics that explains how collections of objects behave. This allows researchers to fully model the conditions that give rise to...
Is the Great Neutrino Puzzle Pointing to Multiple Missing Particles?
...and half results. In recent years, they’ve devised new theories that are more complicated than the sterile neutrino, but which, if correct, would thoroughly revolutionize physics — resolving anomalies in...
An Ultra-Precise Clock Links the Quantum World With Gravity
...between the top and the bottom of a millimeter-tall cloud of atoms. The work is a step toward studying physics at the intersection of general relativity and quantum mechanics, two...