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What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?
...physics. And so there was a movement that emerged, now a couple of decades ago, to say: Why don’t we study some animal systems that have already figured it out,...
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
...you get to longer periods. Strogatz (10:40): Just to make sure I’m following because I think I know what period means, like, say in a first-year physics course, where I’m...
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus
...theorist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, said Bacca and her colleagues have exposed a significant problem in nuclear physics. They’ve found, he said, an instance where our...
Sparse Networks Come to the Aid of Big Physics
...least three continents. The switch marks a historic change for the physics community. “In physics, we are used to developing our own algorithms and computational approaches,” said Carlos Argüelles-Delgado, a...
In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death
...physicists. It was an early example of how everyday physics connects to the grandest themes in cosmology. Drop ice cubes into a glass of water, and you create a situation...
Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?
Leonard Susskind and collaborators set out to understand why black hole interiors grow forever. They ended up proposing a new law of physics. Christopher Webb Young/Quanta Magazine...
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...
Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?
...which is associated with the new physics which is beyond the Standard Model. Strogatz (15:10): I see, yeah. Kaplan: So instead of saying there’s some unknown physics so far above...
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
...reconnection, tiny physics plays a big role. In particular, it explains why some reconnection events are so stupefyingly fast — and why the strongest seem to occur at a characteristic...