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Dark Energy Tested on a Tabletop
...physics,” said Burrage. “Pretty much anytime you want to go beyond that, the new physics you try and introduce gives you new scalar fields.” Scalar fields could produce dark energy...
‘Penguin’ Anomaly Hints at Missing Particles
...governed particle physics for 40 years. “What we find is that this anomaly has persisted,” said Guy Wilkinson, a physicist at the University of Oxford and the spokesperson for the...
Science’s Path From Myth to Multiverse
...Why did you focus on the history of physics and astronomy? Well, that’s what I know about; that’s where I have some competence. But there’s another reason: It’s in physics...
Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow
...problem. “At the end of the day when we understand what moonshine is, it will be in terms of physics,” Duncan said. Rotating a square 90 degrees and then reflecting...
Strange Stars Pulse to the Golden Mean
...as a conceivable basis of extraterrestrial communication). He then found hints that the star’s pulses were chaotic. John Learned, professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa. But when...
In LHC’s Shadow, America’s Collider Awakens
...the plasma’s peculiar mathematical relationship to black holes, have revealed that it is an almost “perfect” liquid, possessing the lowest viscosity (or internal friction) allowed by quantum physics. A monitor...
In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory
...is a loaded word,” said Mukund Rangamani, a professor at Durham University in the United Kingdom and the co-author of a paper posted recently to the physics preprint site arXiv.org...
Joint Dust Analysis Deflates Big Bang Signal
...Andrei Linde, a professor of physics at Stanford who, along with Alexei Starobinsky and Alan Guth, won the 2014 Kavli Prize in astrophysics for pioneering the theory of inflation. “Parts...
Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease
...Thurner thought there were other, deeper questions that the data could answer as well. In a recent paper in the New Journal of Physics, Thurner and his colleagues Peter Klimek...