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In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
...in one specialist’s words, but which, despite their seeming senselessness, arise frequently in physics. The equations are mathematical abstractions of growth, the hustle and bustle of elementary particles and other...
The Cartoon Picture of Magnets That Has Transformed Science
...to model virtually every interesting thermodynamic phenomenon.” It has also penetrated far-flung disciplines well beyond physics, serving as a model of earthquakes, proteins, brains — and even racial segregation. Here’s...
Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill
Physicists have solved a key problem of robotic locomotion by revising the usual rules of interaction between simple component parts. In a physics lab in Amsterdam, there’s a wheel that...
The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads
...use a collection of telescopes in the Chilean desert and at the South Pole. Dvorkin’s research sits at the nexus of particle physics and cosmology, which have both reached a...
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
...you get to longer periods. Strogatz (10:40): Just to make sure I’m following because I think I know what period means, like, say in a first-year physics course, where I’m...
In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds?
Testing the multiverse hypothesis requires measuring whether our universe is statistically typical among the infinite variety of universes. But infinity does a number on statistics. If modern physics is to...
Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
Three experiments have vetted quantum Darwinism, a theory that explains how quantum possibilities can give rise to objective, classical reality. It’s not surprising that quantum physics has a reputation for...
The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games
A two-player game can reveal whether the universe has an infinite amount of complexity. One of the biggest and most basic questions in physics involves the number of ways to...
Cosmologists Debate How Fast the Universe Is Expanding
...Perlmutter of the Supernova Cosmology Project and Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess of the High-Z Supernova Search Team, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Fast forward to July of...