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Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
...battery — but all he has access to is empty space. Fortunately, his friend Alice has a fully equipped physics lab in a far-off location. Alice measures the field in...
How Will the Universe End?
...it happen? (01:00) This isn’t the makings of a superhero movie. This is the type of theoretical physics that Dr. Katie Mack thinks about a lot. Dr. Mack is a...
How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
...physics,” Dunne said. Despite its triumph in physics, the path integral makes mathematicians queasy. Even a simple particle moving through space has infinitely many possible paths. Fields are worse, with...
Could One Physics Theory Unlock the Mysteries of the Brain?
The phenomenon of criticality can explain the sudden emergence of new properties in a wide range of complex systems, from avalanches to flocks of birds to stock market crashes. Neuroscientists...
How Quantum Physicists ‘Flipped Time’ (and How They Didn’t)
...computers, and Zeilinger’s work on the phenomenon won him a share of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. For the flippable nature of quantum time, Franke-Arnold said, “it’s very early...
Starfish Whisperer Develops a Physical Language of Life
...to in physics, but I think that’s an exciting challenge. In the past, physics has shown that this approach of trying to understand a unit as more than the sum...
The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art
...physics — lay dormant, until two graduate students made technical breakthroughs that brought the beast to life. DALL·E 2 is such a beast. The key insight that makes DALL·E 2’s...
The Year in Physics
...Garcia Garcia also studies the physics of nothing — the subject of a rollicking explainer published in August.) 2D Physics Unlocked Thousands of condensed matter physicists have studied graphene,...
She Turns Fluids Into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’
...“It’s mind-blowing how physics really works,” she told me recently. “It just seems like nature threw us a bone when things are really hard.” The hard physics that’s out of...