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Time’s (Almost) Reversible Arrow
...time’s arrow would be embedded in the fundamental laws of physics. But the opposite is true. If you could take a movie of subatomic events, you’d find that the backward-in-time...
How Strange Twists in DNA Orchestrate Life
...shape and flexibility. “These experiments are going to stimulate a lot of thinking and rethinking, especially in the physics community,” said Wilma Olson, a biophysical chemist at Rutgers University in...
A Fight for the Soul of Science
...declared a “battle for the heart and soul of physics.” The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say...
‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem
...different to Kalai. It seemed connected to the famous Kadison-Singer problem, a question about the foundations of quantum physics that had remained unsolved for almost 50 years. Over the decades,...
The Information Theory of Life
...transmissions over a wire. Since then, the field has found wide application, and few researchers have done more in that regard than Adami, who is a professor of physics and...
The Physical Origin of Universal Computing
...this form of Deutsch’s principle from the laws of physics. Part of the reason is that we don’t yet know what the laws of physics are! In particular, we don’t...
A Twisted Path to Equation-Free Prediction
...modeling began almost 100 years ago, and from the start it was influenced heavily by physics and engineering, which had used differential equations to describe dynamic systems for the previous...
Solution: ‘The Road Less Traveled’
...example from real science, beautifully described by Natalie Wolchover here in Quanta Magazine, is the amplituhedron, the jewel at the heart of quantum physics. In our case, the clever trick...
Nima Arkani-Hamed’s Visions of Future Physics
Nima Arkani-Hamed makes his “big-picture” case for building a 100-TeV particle collider. Béatrice de Géa for Quanta Magazine...