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Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity
...physics. Perhaps, given the chance, the whip-smart Bronstein might have helped to speed things along. Aside from quantum gravity, he contributed to astrophysics and cosmology, semiconductor theory, and quantum electrodynamics,...
One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles
...particle physics or cosmology — a state of affairs that could continue indefinitely — this could be the most promising route for putting the latest ideas about quantum gravity to...
The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change
...the transition to observe whether the laws of physics vary over time, as predicted by many theories of fundamental physics. Thanks to an apparently accidental, nearly exact cancellation of two...
Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
...next step in physics, you actually have to do it that way. At that point, physics became linked to mathematics. Mathematics is the language of physics. We’re now going through...
An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence
Having solved a central mystery about the “twirliness” of tornadoes and other types of vortices, William Irvine has set his sights on turbulence, the white whale of classical physics. It’s...
Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’
...vision of the universe, and with it, a new way of doing physics. Theorists of the era were struggling to find order in an unruly zoo of newfound particles. They...
Charlie Marcus Knows That Quantum Facts Aren’t Complicated
...Because it’s very cool, this whole thing. This is partly I think why you get books like The Tao of Physics. Once, when I was giving a lecture about Taoism...
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...
Spotting Quantum Black Holes in the Lab
Can we test speculations about how quantum physics affects black holes and the Big Bang? In physics, we discover a new law by making a guess, and then comparing the...