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Solution: ‘A Random Place at the Table’
...longer to fall down from the top of its flight back to its initial height? In high school physics, when students are asked to solve such problems, they are told...
A Random Place at the Table
...longer to fall down from the top of its flight back to its initial height? In high school physics, when students are asked to solve such problems, they are told...
Solution: ‘Which Forecasts Are True?’
...as I’ve said before in these columns, is that physics of one or two particles is far simpler, and therefore far kinder to our mathematical models, than the highly messy...
Solution: A Hat Trick + 1 of Hat Puzzles
...postdoc in physics at Kyushu University.) In this game, there are 10 contestants. As before, they are given instructions by the host and allowed to confer before the game. The...
A Life in Games
...students in math, physics and computer science, as well as for many people with jobs that provided access to idling mainframe computers. A U.S. military report estimated that the workplace...
A Timely Fix for a Grand Theory of Nature
...ideas in ecology like neutral theory may be like the ideal gas law, an equation from physics that describes the general properties of gases very well. To make predictions about...
How Life Turns Asymmetric
...view on this: Anything that’s not forbidden by the laws of physics is possible.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com. Scientists are uncovering how our bodies — and everything within...
Solution: ‘The Road Less Traveled’
...example from real science, beautifully described by Natalie Wolchover here in Quanta Magazine, is the amplituhedron, the jewel at the heart of quantum physics. In our case, the clever trick...
A Proof That Some Spaces Can’t Be Cut
...dissertation adviser at Harvard, and Tomasz Mrowka, a topologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, combined equations that originated in quantum physics with Floer homology to construct a powerful invariant...