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Robbert Dijkgraaf on Exploring Quantum Reality
...at the physics books and I’m not burdened in any way that this is my career.” And I remember picking up a few books of physics, well, that’s so wonderful,...
Color-Changing Material Unites the Math and Physics of Knots
Mathematicians have studied knots for centuries, but a new material is showing why some knots are better than others. One sunny day last summer, Mathias Kolle, a professor at the...
Did the Chicken Come First or Is It Turtles All the Way Down?
The apparent paradox of the chicken and the egg smells like “turtles all the way down.” This puzzle shows how biology and physics can overcome infinite regress. When you consider...
Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
...you know, like, a very sort of strong sense of being grounded in physics and foundations of physics and mathematics. And, so, I often come up with a diagram, like,...
Solution: ‘Natural Law and Elegant Math’
...our object will continue to have a finite velocity and will therefore cover the distance in finite time. Hence, by the idealized laws of physics, the object will never stop,...
The Voyage to the End of Ice
...rest of the planet. To nail down the answer, an expedition to the top of the world has to untangle the knotty physics of ice. “Pull out your ice picks,”...
An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions
...also has deep connections to physics. Physical theories that describe the world, like Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and the Standard Model of particle physics, exhibit a property called...
The Year in Physics
...irreconcilably smaller than the generally accepted number. A flurry of activity followed — hundreds of papers speculating on how the laws of physics would have to be modified to accommodate...
Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes
Snow crystals come in two main types. The “pope” of snowflake physics has a new theory that explains why. Kenneth Libbrecht is that rare person who, in the middle of...