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Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable
...far less gets said about one of the most profound facts to have crystallized in physics over the past half-century: To an astonishing degree, nature is the way it is...
Does Natural Law Need Elegant Mathematics?
...of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.” Similar thoughts have been...
Top Dark Matter Candidate Loses Ground to Tiniest Competitor
...neutron stars. Together these teams may someday cover most of the possible frequencies. A discovery would permanently rewrite the laws of particle physics and cosmology, but today axions remain entirely...
Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math
...to compute. Moreover, they realized that the relationship between eigenvectors and eigenvalues — ubiquitous objects in math, physics and engineering that have been studied since the 18th century — seemed...
Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars
...on to become one of the first women to earn a doctorate in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology. While she was there, she befriended Richard Feynman, who paid...
Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time
...the final answer without ever working through the complicated particle dynamics. The results hinted that the usual picture of particle physics, in which particles move and interact in space and...
How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries
The KATRIN experiment is closing in on the mass of the neutrino, which could point to new laws of particle physics and reshape theories of cosmology. Of all the known...
Physics Nobel Honors Early Universe and Exoplanet Discoveries
...in Physics. James Peebles, a physicist at Princeton University, won half of the prize for his contributions to physical cosmology, while Michel Mayor, a physicist at the University of Geneva,...
Physicists Finally Nail the Proton’s Size, and Hope Dies
...— a fundamental discovery. Hundreds of papers speculating about the possibility have been written in the near-decade since. But hopes that the “proton radius puzzle” would upend particle physics and...