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In Quantum Games, There’s No Way to Play the Odds
...thinking about physics. These “nonlocal” games were conceived in the 1960s by the physicist John Stewart Bell as a way to understand the bizarre quantum phenomenon called entanglement. While quantum...
What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory
...from melted bits of Earth. The Apollo rocks are then in direct conflict with what the physics insist must be true. “The canonical model is in serious crisis,” said Sarah...
Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever
...big physics ideas spanning the past half-century, has proposed a solution to an important puzzle about black holes. The problem is that even though these mysterious, invisible spheres appear to...
Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
...formula says that any changes to the microscopic physics of the gas, such as the type of atoms that comprise it, produce equal and opposite shifts in its energy and...
This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
...— then seemed to be permanently lost. Hawking’s calculation posed a paradox — the infamous “black hole information paradox” — that has motivated research in fundamental physics ever since. On...
Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn
...stuff,” said Donald Marolf, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and one of the four co-authors. The argument caused an uproar in the theoretical physics community, much...
Strange Solar Gamma Rays Discovered at Even Higher Energies
...dynamics of the cosmic particles winding around them. Beyond solving the gamma-ray mystery, researchers think that the HAWC measurements may lead to broader insights into solar and particle physics. The...
The Physicist Who Glues Together Universes
...work in economics, but I soon got homesick for physics, which I had studied as an undergraduate. Economics is about predicting the behavior of people. High-energy physics, with its fundamental...
Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory
...in Nature Physics. The experiment was also able to mimic a region around the sun where the plasma hangs in a precarious balance. Within this boundary, plasmas are contained by...