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Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes? A Physics Titan Weighs In.
...know why,” said Heather Logan, a particle physicist at Carleton University. In the 1970s, when physicists first worked out the Standard Model of particle physics — the still-reigning set of...
Solution: ‘Is It Turtles All the Way Down?’
While the age-old chicken-and-egg paradox is easily answered, the question of infinite regress in physics is far from resolved. In February’s puzzle column, we explored some ways in which science...
Axions Would Solve Another Major Problem in Physics
...— counterclockwise — and not the other, it would inject a plus sign into particle physics equations rather than a minus sign, yielding electrons and electron-like particles instead of their...
Tadashi Tokieda’s Special Kind of Magic
...the world in a toy. Tadashi sees in toys, — just like children’s toys, little playthings — the whole universe that’s in there, the principles of physics. He is a...
Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math
...in physics can change computational complexity. “If you choose a different set of physics, like quantum rather than classical, you get a different complexity theory out of it,” Natarajan said....
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
...time that would happen inside a black hole, and, and the laws of physics would break down in there. We still don’t even know what would happen inside of a...
The Man Making Rwanda Into a Hub for Physics
...partner institute, the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Italy. But another thing I can say, from my past experiences working in Nigeria, is that theoretical physics is the cheapest...
Omololu Akin-Ojo: Doing Cutting-Edge Physics in Africa
Omololu Akin-Ojo of the East African Institute for Fundamental Research discusses his plans to invigorate theoretical physics in Africa, including by focusing on problems related to energy and water that...
Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab
...where to look for the most elusive theory in physics: one that unites quantum mechanics with the theory of general relativity that describes gravity. And, for good measure, it would...