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Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks
...that earned Kenneth Wilson the 1982 Nobel Prize in physics. Soon after, power laws formed the core of two other paradigms that swept across the statistical physics world: fractals, and...
Neutron Lifetime Puzzle Deepens, but No Dark Matter Seen
...will soon appear in the journal Science, reinforces the discrepancy with beam experiments and increases the chance that it reflects new physics rather than mere experimental error. But what new...
How the Universe Got Its Bounce Back
...ways that bounces could conceivably occur. One of the models, described in a paper that will appear in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, comes from Anna Ijjas of...
Job One for Quantum Computers: Boost Artificial Intelligence
...physics professor at Wichita State University, began working to combine quantum physics with artificial intelligence — in particular, the then-maverick technology of neural networks. Most people thought she was mixing...
What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
The Navier-Stokes equations describe simple, everyday phenomena, like water flowing from a garden hose, yet they provide a million-dollar mathematical challenge. Physics contains equations that describe everything from the stretching...
Why an Old Theory of Everything Is Gaining New Life
...description — the Standard Model of particle physics — constitutes physicists’ best current explanation for everything. It’s neat and it’s simple, but no one is entirely happy with it. What...
Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter
...sphere and the torus. They’ve also begun to explore the wilderness of phases that can arise near absolute zero in 3-D matter. “It’s not a particular law of physics” that...
Minhyong Kim: Connecting Number Theory to Physics
Minhyong Kim wanted to make sure he had concrete results in number theory before he admitted that his ideas were inspired by physics. Tom Medwell for Quanta Magazine...
Neutrinos Suggest Solution to Mystery of Universe’s Existence
...Model of particle physics, every particle has a mirror-image particle that carries the opposite electrical charge — an antimatter particle. When matter and antimatter particles collide, they annihilate in a...