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The Strange Second Life of String Theory
...Theoretical Physics, has publicly argued that fundamental physics faces a crisis. And then physicists began to realize that the dream of one singular theory was an illusion. The complexities of...
Seeing Time Through a Liquid Crystal Display
Time is one of the most fascinating and mysterious subjects in physics. In June, about 60 experts gathered to discuss the nature of time at the Time in Cosmology conference,...
Responding Rapidly to Big Discoveries
...to three-week-long rapid response workshops are rush-approved and scheduled within six months. Similar programs are held at the Aspen Center for Physics and the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics....
Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story of Stars
...universe, akin, some said, to when Galileo first pointed a telescope at the sky. Already, the new gravitational-wave data has shaken up the field of astrophysics. In response, three dozen...
A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
...was introduced to a new young professor in the astrophysics department named Doug Finkbeiner. And Doug at that time was looking for a student with some particle physics training. I...
Jammed Cells Expose the Physics of Cancer
...physics community there’s momentum,” Fredberg said. “If the physicists are on board with it, the biologists are going to have to. Cells obey the rules of physics — there’s no...
New Measurement Deepens Proton Puzzle
...times as heavy but otherwise identical. It’s as if the proton tightens its belt in the muon’s presence. And yet, according to the reigning theory of particle physics, the proton...
What No New Particles Means for Physics
...of new physics deepens a crisis that started in 2012 during the LHC’s first run, when it became clear that its 8-TeV collisions would not generate any new physics beyond...
Moonshine Master Toys With String Theory
...“moonshine”) correspondence to its unlikely source: string theory, a candidate for the fundamental theory of physics that casts elementary particles as tiny oscillating strings. The j-function describes the strings’ oscillations...