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The ‘Weirdest’ Matter, Made of Partial Particles, Defies Description
...some of the grittiest problems in fundamental physics. Fractons are quasiparticles — particle-like entities that emerge out of complicated interactions between many elementary particles inside a material. But fractons are...
How Bell’s Theorem Proved ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ Is Real
...about the laws of physics. So when Albert Einstein and two colleagues showed in 1935 that quantum mechanics permits “spooky action at a distance,” as Einstein put it, this feature...
A Video Tour of the Standard Model
...the collaboration between physics and mathematics on one of the most important ideas in science: quantum field theory. The basic objects of a quantum field theory are quantum fields, which...
Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise
...more than five times longer than the result in 2018. “This is basically a breakthrough result,” said Brian Reville, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in...
Nathan Seiberg on How Math Might Complete the Ultimate Physics Theory
...a lot of cross-fertilization between what today we call math and physics. [Isaac] Newton is a great example. He was motivated by physics when he invented calculus. Over the 20th...
Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works
...theories of fundamental physics: quantum fields. “This is a masterpiece in mathematical physics,” said Xin Sun, a mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania. Infinite Fields In physics today, the main...
The Materials Scientist Who Studies the Innards of Exoplanets
...a laboratory for mineralogy and high-pressure physics, and that’s basically how I started working in high-pressure physics. What sparked your attraction to it? In everyday life, you experience the changes...
Graphene Superconductors May Be Less Exotic Than Physicists Hoped
...of 20th-century physics who tried and failed to understand why many metals carry current without resistance at low temperatures. In 1957, nearly half a century after this standard kind of...
The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics. Over the past century, quantum field theory has proved to...