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What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly?
...physics: the gallium anomaly. “I think it’s one of the most compelling anomalies in neutrino physics that we have today,” said Ben Jones, a neutrino physicist at the University of...
How Is Science Even Possible?
...and physics is so powerful in its explanations makes another assumption. That assumption is reductionism. This goes back to another quote of another founder of modern physics, Paul Dirac, who...
Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy
...to information security in the 1980s, a few researchers discovered that computational hardness wasn’t the only way to safeguard secrets. Quantum theory, originally developed to understand the physics of atoms,...
Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang
...Jerome Quintin of the University of Waterloo. The trio recently published a paper in the Journal of High Energy Physics in which, Ling said, “we mathematically showed that there might...
The S-Matrix Is the Oracle Physicists Turn To in Times of Crisis
...results. These infinities led Heisenberg to distrust the way quantum physics was depicting reality, and to expect that a revolutionary new theory would eventually overthrow particle physics and fix the...
He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass
...It’s not an accident. There are several special things about diamonds that make them great for quantum physics. Humans love diamonds because diamonds are transparent and sparkly, which is related...
Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?
...would win Kamerlingh Onnes the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics. [Theme ends] But more importantly, it marked the start of an unresolved quest for material that maintains perfect conductivity at...
Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check
...weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) and axions. These are the simplest formulations for dark matter, and each type of particle would also elegantly solve other physics mysteries. But after roughly...
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities
...macroworld of particles would emerge. “Does string theory make unique predictions? Is it really physics? The jury is just still out,” said Lara Anderson, a physicist at Virginia Tech who...