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Are We All Wrong About Black Holes?
...analogy. This connection gave physicists a tantalizing window into what many consider the biggest problem in theoretical physics — how to combine quantum mechanics, our theory of the very small,...
Ann Nelson Took On the Biggest Problems in Physics
...postdocs and faculty from around the world. Particle physics, particularly theoretical particle physics, can be an incredibly competitive field, but anyone who worked with her would say that Ann was...
Cosmologists Debate How Fast the Universe Is Expanding
...Perlmutter of the Supernova Cosmology Project and Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess of the High-Z Supernova Search Team, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Fast forward to July of...
A Call for Courage as Physicists Confront Collider Dilemma
...All the world is built out of 17 known elementary particles. Carlo Rubbia led the team that discovered two of them. In 1984, Rubbia shared the Nobel Prize in Physics...
Carlo Rubbia on the Future of Particle Physics
Carlo Rubbia explains why he thinks particle physicists should take the next step by building a “Higgs factory.” Thomas Lewton for Quanta Magazine...
Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter
...information,” said Tetyana Galatyuk, one of the 200 members of the HADES collaboration. The experiment, reported this week in Nature Physics, is the first to measure the temperature of quark...
Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory
...in Nature Physics. The experiment was also able to mimic a region around the sun where the plasma hangs in a precarious balance. Within this boundary, plasmas are contained by...
Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
Three experiments have vetted quantum Darwinism, a theory that explains how quantum possibilities can give rise to objective, classical reality. It’s not surprising that quantum physics has a reputation for...
How (Relatively) Simple Symmetries Underlie Our Expanding Universe
Although Einstein’s theory of space-time seems more complicated than Newtonian physics, it greatly simplified the mathematical description of the universe. Isaac Newton and other premodern physicists saw space and time...