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The Algorithm That Lets Particle Physicists Count Higher Than Two
...saw terms merge together and melt away by the thousands. In the 19 computable expressions that remained, he glimpsed the future of particle physics. Today the reduction procedure, known as...
Black Hole Echoes Would Reveal Break With Einstein’s Theory
...in theoretical physics. We dream of the day when one of our equations will be plotted against data and fit spot on. It’s rare for this dream to come true....
Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
...needed Jerolmack’s help to show that this is what nature does. “It was geometry with an exact prediction that was borne out in the natural world, with essentially no physics...
How to Make the Universe Think for Us
...compute 3.532 times 1.567 or something,” Scellier said. “It’s done, but implicitly, just by the laws of physics directly.” The Thinking Part McMahon and his collaborators have made progress on...
Squishy Neutron Star Setback Dampens Hopes of Exotic Matter
...Born from supernovas, these objects contain a star-size mass in a city-size space. This unique trait has led scientists to believe that some extreme physics might take place in their...
The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy
...acrobatics his peers performed to tackle one of the most notorious problems in modern physics: the black hole information paradox. In 2017, Oppenheim started searching for alternatives that avoided the...
Why the Tiny Weight of Empty Space Is Such a Huge Mystery
...physics, has to say about empty space. A quantum field is empty when there are no particle excitations rippling through it. But because of the uncertainty principle in quantum physics,...
The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space
...their existence was impossible. But a couple of decades later, these same shapes became extremely important in both math and physics. The results ended up having a far broader reach...
In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’
...the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. That paradox distills the fundamental conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics, the two great pillars of 20th-century physics. “If you...