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The End of Theoretical Physics as We Know It
...no one can calculate how they come together to make a proton. The equations just can’t be solved by any known methods. Similarly, a merger of black holes or even...
The Physicist Who Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts
...find amazing about general relativity is that it tells you precisely when it stops working. Out of the laws of general relativity come black holes. From the outside, we think...
Random Surfaces Hide an Intricate Order
...Next, fit them together in any fashion, as long as the final shape closes up like wrapping paper around a gift (so no holes or openings). If you start with...
New Studies Rescue Gravitational-Wave Signal From the Noise
...their criticism on the experiment’s famous first signal, a squiggly line — representing the collision of giant black holes more than a billion light-years away — that was printed in...
Galaxy-Size Bubbles Discovered Towering Over the Milky Way
...and below their disks, and they’ve wondered what makes the central supermassive black holes in those galaxies churn so much more violently than ours does. The Fermi bubbles, and now...
Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math
...especially the role of black holes in the universe. But I would say, actually, what excites me most is that in this period of — kind of — turmoil and...
How to Solve Our Three John Conway-Inspired Puzzles
...and holes reduce edges by four (with a weight of 4). So single edges need to be balanced with U’s and/or holes using the following formulas: Singles(s) and U’s (u)...
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
...addition to powering solar flares, reconnection may power the speedy, high-energy particles ejected by exploding stars, the glow of jets from feasting black holes, and the constant wind blown by...
Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate
...collision of two black holes. The team held a press conference in Washington to announce the landmark findings. They also released their data. Now a team of independent physicists has...