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The End of Theoretical Physics as We Know It
Computer simulations and custom-built quantum analogues are changing what it means to search for the laws of nature. Theoretical physics has a reputation for being complicated. I beg to differ....
The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology
...series dives deep into math and physics theories, kicking off with ‘universality,’ a phenomenon that reveals underlying mathematical connections in the world,” Driscoll wrote in an email. “Depicting universality on...
Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn
...stuff,” said Donald Marolf, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and one of the four co-authors. The argument caused an uproar in the theoretical physics community, much...
Dark Energy May Be Incompatible With String Theory
...awoke in Vienna and groggily scrolled through an online repository of newly posted physics papers. One title startled him into full consciousness. The paper, by the prominent string theorist Cumrun...
Star-Swallowing Black Holes Reveal Secrets in Exotic Light Shows
...of astrophysicists proposed a new theoretical model for how TDEs work. The model can explain why different TDEs can appear to behave differently, even though the underlying physics is presumably...
Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantum World
...for anti-realism at the level of the quantum. But in May, Rafael Chaves and colleagues at the International Institute of Physics in Natal, Brazil, found a loophole. They showed that...
How Artificial Intelligence Can Supercharge the Search for New Particles
...billions of collisions to a more manageable number, they may be inadvertently deleting evidence for new physics. “We’re always afraid we’re throwing the baby away with the bathwater,” said Kyle...
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
...named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove six hours south to Pennsylvania State University, eager to talk to a physics professor there named Murat Günaydin. Furey had figured out...
Cohl Furey on the Octonions and Particle Physics
Cohl Furey explains what octonions are and what they might have to do with particle physics. Susannah Ireland for Quanta Magazine...