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A Fight for the Soul of Science
...declared a “battle for the heart and soul of physics.” The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say...
As Supersymmetry Fails Tests, Physicists Seek New Ideas
...presented last week at the Hadron Collider Physics conference in Kyoto, Japan, ruled out another broad class of supersymmetry models, as well as other theories of “new physics,” by finding...
Is Nature Unnatural?
On an overcast afternoon in late April, physics professors and students crowded into a wood-paneled lecture hall at Columbia University for a talk by Nima Arkani-Hamed, a high-profile theorist visiting...
Decoding the Secrets of Superconductivity
...change how you transport electricity and enable new ways of using electricity,” said Louis Taillefer, a professor of physics at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec. Materials that superconduct under...
A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
...and ubiquitous mathematical techniques in physics, a procedure for calculating the large-scale behavior of physical systems such as elementary particles, fluids and the cosmos. The new work, completed by Pankaj...
How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder
What’s the difference between physics and biology? Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa. The laws of physics allow you to predict...
A New Spin on the Quantum Brain
...when he published a paper in Annals of Physics proposing that the nuclear spins of phosphorus atoms could serve as rudimentary “qubits” in the brain — which would essentially enable...
Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
...only describes simple interactions between matter and electromagnetic fields, according to David Wallace, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford in England, and cannot even capture the physics...
Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time
...the fundamental laws of physics, was hard to swallow. Did the work constitute a major breakthrough or faulty logic? Jakub Zakrzewski, a professor of physics and head of atomic optics...