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Is Infinity Real?
...laws of physics. We don’t have to examine the foundations of physics to see examples of how the infinity assumption can give qualitative answers that are not quite correct in...
LIGO Reports Second Black-Hole Merger
...professor of physics at Syracuse University, told Quanta that the two observations to date “tell us the black holes exist over a broad range of masses, from about seven to...
Have Physicists Discovered a New Boson?
In 2012, the world’s biggest supercollider discovered the Higgs boson, completing the Standard Model of particle physics. Now a team of little-known Hungarian physicists claim to have found a new,...
An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
...returning to physics. Why did you leave science for a while? As much as I love physics and I’m passionate about it, I think the field itself is quite insular,...
Evidence of a ‘Fifth Force’ Faces Scrutiny
...particle physicist at the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues. After spending months translating the nuclear physics finding into the language of particle physics and ensuring that no particle physics...
Solution: ‘A Random Place at the Table’
...longer to fall down from the top of its flight back to its initial height? In high school physics, when students are asked to solve such problems, they are told...
New Support for Alternative Quantum View
...is exactly what the standard view of quantum mechanics, often called the Copenhagen interpretation, asks us to believe. Instead of the clear-cut positions and movements of Newtonian physics, we have...
A Random Place at the Table
...longer to fall down from the top of its flight back to its initial height? In high school physics, when students are asked to solve such problems, they are told...
Janna Levin’s Theory of Doing Everything
...of her physics career. She has also studied the limits of knowledge, ideas that found their way into her award-winning novel about the mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel. Lately...