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Carlo Rubbia on the Future of Particle Physics
Carlo Rubbia explains why he thinks particle physicists should take the next step by building a “Higgs factory.” Thomas Lewton for Quanta Magazine...
What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner
Frank Wilczek discusses the work that led to his Nobel and the inherent beauty of physical law. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Ian MacLellan for Quanta Magazine...
Waiting for the Revolution
...QUANTA MAGAZINE: Why physics, David? DAVID GROSS: At age 13, I read a wonderful book by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld called “The Evolution of Physics.” I was enormously excited...
An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
...returning to physics. Why did you leave science for a while? As much as I love physics and I’m passionate about it, I think the field itself is quite insular,...
The Strange Second Life of String Theory
...Theoretical Physics, has publicly argued that fundamental physics faces a crisis. And then physicists began to realize that the dream of one singular theory was an illusion. The complexities of...
The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
...quantum physics, which governs the world of elementary particles such as electrons and photons. Most researchers have no access to D-Wave’s proprietary system, so they can’t simply examine its specifications...
Moonshine Master Toys With String Theory
...“moonshine”) correspondence to its unlikely source: string theory, a candidate for the fundamental theory of physics that casts elementary particles as tiny oscillating strings. The j-function describes the strings’ oscillations...
A Private View of Quantum Reality
...there is no law.” There’s no ultimate law of physics. All the laws of physics are mutable and that mutability itself is a principle of physics. He’d say, there’s no...
Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind
...theorem turned out to be important in physics? Oh, yes. I did all this geometry not having any notion that it would be linked to physics. It was a big...