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Contemplating the End of Physics
Has physics reached the limits of what we can discover — or are the possibilities only just beginning? Is physics finished? The 21st century is often called the age of...
Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
...needed Jerolmack’s help to show that this is what nature does. “It was geometry with an exact prediction that was borne out in the natural world, with essentially no physics...
What Is a Particle?
...don’t conflict so much as capture different facets of the truth. They also described two major research thrusts in fundamental physics today that are pursuing a more satisfying, all-encompassing picture...
Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang
...physics, nuclear physics, cosmology and astronomy,” he said. The reaction involves deuterium, a form of hydrogen consisting of one proton and one neutron that fused within the cosmos’s first three...
The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads
...use a collection of telescopes in the Chilean desert and at the South Pole. Dvorkin’s research sits at the nexus of particle physics and cosmology, which have both reached a...
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
...Wormholes, the holographic principle, emergent space-time, quantum entanglement, quantum computers: Nearly every concept in fundamental physics these days makes an appearance, making the subject both captivating and confounding. And not...
A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
...and physics at Cambridge, and now between biology, mathematics and physics at Harvard. One positive aspect of being between disciplines is being left alone to find my own way through...
A New Map of All the Particles and Forces
...interactions. Together, the equations formed a succinct theory now known as the Standard Model of particle physics. The Standard Model is missing a few puzzle pieces (conspicuously absent are the...
Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
...traveling through space. In that way it almost seems weirder than entanglement.” In a paper published in the New Journal of Physics in September, Pollak and two colleagues argued that...