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Asymmetry Detected in the Distribution of Galaxies
...a cherished symmetry of physics. But then, in 1957, the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu’s nuclear decay experiments revealed that our universe indeed has a slight handedness to it: Subatomic...
Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence
...particle physics calculations outpaces the exponential growth of computing power. As crucial as software like FORM is for physics, the effort to develop it is often undervalued. Vermaseren was lucky...
Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
...the holographic principle, a sweeping hypothesis about how the two pillars of fundamental physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, fit together. Physicists have strived since the 1930s to reconcile these...
Why This Universe? A New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical.
...for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, for the same reason that air spreads evenly throughout a room: Weirder options are conceivable, but exceedingly improbable. The universe “may seem extremely fine-tuned,...
How to Think About Relativity
Albert Einstein’s ideas about space-time aren’t exactly intuitive, and they aren’t exactly Einstein’s, either. In Newtonian physics, space and time had their independent identities, and nobody ever got them mixed...
A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts
...liked physics. I did well in my physics classes, but never felt like I gained an intuitive understanding of everyday physical events. But when I started working with my Ph.D....
Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness
...hundred or so years. But now we may be ready to eliminate at least one set of proposals. Recent experiments have mobilized the extreme sensitivity of particle physics instruments to...
Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine’
...charged particle at the heart of every atom, physicists are still struggling to fully understand the proton. High school physics teachers describe them as featureless balls with one unit each...
Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics
Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments with entangled particles. The physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger...