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Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time
...Thorne, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology whose work on gravitational waves earned him part of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. “It is connected ultimately to the...
Physicists Finally Nail the Proton’s Size, and Hope Dies
...— a fundamental discovery. Hundreds of papers speculating about the possibility have been written in the near-decade since. But hopes that the “proton radius puzzle” would upend particle physics and...
How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists
The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information. The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example,...
The Physicist Who Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts
...their beauty and depth. Einstein built general relativity on some pillars called Einstein’s principles. One is the equivalence principle: The laws of physics surely shouldn’t depend on who’s observing that...
The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
...wrote last year in Journal of Physics A. “The other theories find her somewhat odd, somehow different in nature from the rest, yet everyone comes to her for advice, and...
Star-Swallowing Black Holes Reveal Secrets in Exotic Light Shows
...of astrophysicists proposed a new theoretical model for how TDEs work. The model can explain why different TDEs can appear to behave differently, even though the underlying physics is presumably...
On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity
...of mathematical physics, whereas I stayed with phenomenology physics. My work had more links to observation. Can you tell us more about why the 1960s were such a remarkable moment...
A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
...buttoned-up professor of physics at the University of Oxford. Then, a decade ago, he decamped to the University of Miami — a young institution that he sees as unconstrained by...
This Animal’s Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed
...the behavior of Trichoplax could be described entirely in the language of physics and dynamical systems. Mechanical interactions that began at the level of a single cilium, and then multiplied...