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In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’
...the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. That paradox distills the fundamental conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics, the two great pillars of 20th-century physics. “If you...
Physicists Study How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide
...“Because it’s an experiment, it contains by definition all the physics that nature wants to put in it including quantum effects and classical effects,” Peiris said. Peiris leads a team...
A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos
Frank Wilczek has been at the forefront of theoretical physics for the past 50 years. He talks about winning the Nobel Prize for work he did as a student, his...
What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner
Frank Wilczek discusses the work that led to his Nobel and the inherent beauty of physical law. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Ian MacLellan for Quanta Magazine...
2020’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
This year, two teams of physicists made profound progress on ideas that could bring about the next revolution in physics. Another has identified the source of a longstanding cosmic mystery....
The Year in Physics
...that could bring about the next revolution in physics. These researchers have chipped away at the most tantalizing and recalcitrant problem in theoretical physics: Stephen Hawking’s black hole information paradox....
A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World
...quantum physics. It’s a potpourri of insights that cohere around the positive Grassmannian, and around the unique mind that generated them. “Lauren is one of these people who thinks so...
A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics
...that it’s time to rethink what we want from a theory, said Jeffrey Bub, a philosopher of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park who works on quantum foundations....
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
...no understanding,” as Richard Feynman described it. Paul Dirac considered the origin of the number “the most fundamental unsolved problem of physics.” Numerically, the fine-structure constant, denoted by the Greek...