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Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
...years I was somewhat embarrassed by the physics connection,” he said. “Number theorists are a pretty tough-minded group of people, and influences from physics sometimes make them more skeptical of...
A Physicist’s Physicist Ponders the Nature of Reality
Edward Witten reflects on the meaning of dualities in physics and math, emergent space-time, and the pursuit of a complete description of nature. Among the brilliant theorists cloistered in the...
Squishy or Solid? A Neutron Star’s Insides Open to Debate
...edge of modern physics. A centimeter or two of normal atoms — iron and silicon, mostly — encrusts the surface like the shiny red veneer on the universe’s densest Gobstopper....
Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
...an intriguing talk at the Strings conference in South Korea. The speaker, Juan Maldacena, a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, had recently...
Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time and Lights Up the Sky
...questions in astrophysics. “In one fell swoop, gravitational wave measurements” have opened “a window onto nuclear astrophysics, neutron star demographics and physics and precise astronomical distances,” said Scott Hughes, an...
LIGO Architects Win Nobel Prize in Physics
...of the small, it pays to dream big. The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics today for their leading roles...
How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector
...particle physics. But it’s possible that the LHC has been producing such pivotal new particles all along, and that we’re just not seeing them. “The core of the story,” said...
To Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics, Join Two Kinds of Law
...are astonishingly simple. It is here that we find the two “standard models,” of particle physics and cosmology. Remarkably, modern insights about the most formidable challenge in theoretical physics —...
Nigel Goldenfeld: Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution
Nigel Goldenfeld explains how condensed matter physics provides insights into the collective state of early life on Earth. Video by Seth Lowe for Quanta Magazine...