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In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter
...reflect that Aprile was not the first female professor of physics at Columbia University. The first female professor of physics at Columbia was C.S. Wu. This article was reprinted on...
Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay
...particles might exist besides the known ones. This in turn could potentially solve other deep mysteries of physics, such as the universe’s matter-antimatter imbalance and the unexplained masses of neutrinos....
On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle
...office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. QUANTA MAGAZINE: What would it mean for physics if sterile neutrinos exist? JANET CONRAD: The Standard Model of particle physics has done very...
The Case Against Dark Matter
...he says it’s too soon to tell whether everything in the paper — which draws from quantum information theory, thermodynamics, condensed matter physics, holography and astrophysics — hangs together. Either...
Scientists Seek to Update Evolution
...and of business as usual. After Galileo and Newton dragged physics out of its ancient errors in the 1600s, it rolled forward from one modest advance to the next until...
The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics
It’s one thing to smash protons together. It’s another to make scientific sense of the debris that’s left behind. This is the situation at CERN, the laboratory that houses the...
How to Hang Far Out Over the Edge
...to project past the edge of the table? Can you derive a formula for the maximum overhang possible for n blocks? Those who feel intimidated by the physics can relax....
Strange Numbers Found in Particle Collisions
...the California Institute of Technology. Read the related Abstractions post: The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics Feynman diagrams have served physics well over the years, but they have limitations....
Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics?
...scientific journals, with a sense that they say something about the systems of interest. But do they? And how do we know? As Stephan Hartmann, philosopher of physics at Ludwig...