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Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting
...the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist...
Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World
...same, these exotic objects are worth heeding, because they show with unprecedented clarity that quantum mechanics is not just the physics of the extremely small. “Schrödinger’s kittens,” loosely speaking, are...
Her Key to Modeling Brains: Ignore the Right Details
...a scientific perspective. It’s still a very cool area of physics for inspiring interesting math and making connections to all kinds of mathematics that aren’t typically considered applied. But from...
The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
...a different approach to this abridgement, picking and programming what they saw as the key astrophysics. Then, in 2012, a study by Cecilia Scannapieco of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics...
The Physics of Glass Opens a Window Into Biology
...associate professor of physics at Syracuse University. “That work really convinced me that there could be a place for this kind of [physics-based] thinking in biology.” She took inspiration from...
There Are No Laws of Physics. There’s Only the Landscape.
Scientists seek a single description of reality. But modern physics allows for many different descriptions, many equivalent to one another, connected through a vast landscape of mathematical possibility. Suppose Alice...
Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle
...neutrino physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the MiniBooNE collaboration. The existence of a sterile neutrino would revolutionize physics from the smallest to the largest...
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science
...it? Dismissive claims by famous physicists that philosophy is either a useless intellectual exercise, or not on a par with physics because of being incapable of progress, seem to start...
Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
...time, it fulfills his ambition by other means, showing that his intuition about the physics inside black holes was correct, just not for the reason he suspected. Relativity’s Cardinal Sin...