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Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond
...or out — in clearing a path to inspiration. As a young professor at Harvard University in 1997, Juan Maldacena reshaped fundamental physics with the discovery that, as he put...
Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn, Driving Around Stanford in a Clunky Jeep
...or out — in clearing a path to inspiration. Four decades ago, Helen Quinn and Roberto Peccei took on one of the great problems in theoretical particle physics: the strong...
Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid
...gravitational physics might just resolve the longstanding dispute on dark matter — and who knows what other breakthroughs might await? “Do I need superfluid models? Physics isn’t really about what...
A Defense of the Reality of Time
...reality. Change is real, as opposed to an illusion or an artifact of perspective. The laws of physics act within time to generate each moment. Mixing mathematics, physics and philosophy,...
Swirling Bacteria Linked to the Physics of Phase Transitions
...student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who was showing the movie at a 2015 physics meeting, highlighted a remarkable observation: As the colony grew more crowded, large groups...
The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
...wrote last year in Journal of Physics A. “The other theories find her somewhat odd, somehow different in nature from the rest, yet everyone comes to her for advice, and...
Physicists Attack Math’s $1,000,000 Question
...numbers.” As mathematicians have attacked the hypothesis from every angle, the problem has also migrated to physics. Since the 1940s, intriguing hints have arisen of a connection between the zeros...
Quantum Questions Inspire New Math
...Study in Princeton, New Jersey. There is of course a long-standing and intimate relationship between mathematics and physics. Galileo famously wrote about a book of nature waiting to be decoded:...
A Ticking Evolutionary Clock
After a string of Insights puzzles related to physics, on the relationship between time and entropy, half-lives, overhang and quantum weirdness, we turn this month to the mysteries of biological...