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A Unified Theory of Randomness
...a result of Schramm’s work, there were a lot of things in physics they’d known to be true in their physics way that suddenly entered the realm of things we...
Neutrinos Hint of Matter-Antimatter Rift
An early sign that neutrinos behave differently than antineutrinos suggests an answer to one of the biggest questions in physics. As neutrinos and antineutrinos change flavors they may illuminate the...
Mining Black Hole Collisions for New Physics
When physicists announced in February that they had detected gravitational waves firsthand, the foundations of physics scarcely rattled. The signal exactly matched the expectations physicists had arrived at after a...
A Debate Over the Physics of Time
...modern physics: Einstein’s masterpiece, the general theory of relativity, and the Standard Model of particle physics. The laws that underlie these theories are time-symmetric — that is, the physics they...
Three Puzzles Inspired by Ramanujan
...lives, and is finding applications in computer science, string theory, and the mathematical basis of black hole physics. A monthly puzzle celebrating the sudden insights and unexpected twists of scientific...
New Insights Into How Zika Harms the Brain
...researchers feel is reasonable. Some are posting their work to preprint servers, a practice that, while common in fields like physics, has never taken off in biology. Preprint papers, like...
How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
...to talk physics. We had a couple of hours to fill before dinner. I described to Feynman what I thought were exciting if speculative new ideas such as fractional spin...
Solution: ‘Is Infinity Real?’
...a Beautiful Concept — and It’s Ruining Physics.” Tegmark is exceptionally critical of the assumption of the continuum that is used in the spectacularly successful theory of cosmic inflation, giving...
Rumors Cast Doubt on Diphoton Bump
...that this 750-GeV bump, if it keeps growing, could signify a new fundamental particle. Unlike the Higgs, which was predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics, the new particle...