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Seeing Time Through a Liquid Crystal Display
Time is one of the most fascinating and mysterious subjects in physics. In June, about 60 experts gathered to discuss the nature of time at the Time in Cosmology conference,...
In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter
...reflect that Aprile was not the first female professor of physics at Columbia University. The first female professor of physics at Columbia was C.S. Wu. This article was reprinted on...
Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe
...called “effective field theory,” from particle physics and condensed matter physics, fields in which it has been used for decades. By modeling the matter swirling throughout space as a viscous...
Solution: ‘Is Infinity Real?’
...a Beautiful Concept — and It’s Ruining Physics.” Tegmark is exceptionally critical of the assumption of the continuum that is used in the spectacularly successful theory of cosmic inflation, giving...
Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete
...mathematical universe to the real one. Hilbert’s sixth problem called upon researchers to axiomatize the laws of physics — that is, rigorously construct them from a basic set of starting...
A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind
...introduced self-organized criticality in a landmark 1987 paper — one of the most highly cited physics papers of the last 30 years. Bak began to see the stabilizing role of...
Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes
...to infinite. “It’s a pretty wild idea,” said Randy Hulet, a physics professor at Rice University in Houston. “You get this infinite series of molecules.” Efimov had shown that when...
A Primordial Nucleus Behind the Elements of Life
...than 50 years ago, but it has taken the rise of modern supercomputers and the development of new mathematical techniques to figure out just how the laws of physics cook...
In Lopsided Map of the Cosmos, a Glimmer of Its Origins
...trying to piece together a cosmic origin story from the grainy shadow of a new clue. Matthew Kleban, an associate professor of physics at New York University, and graduate student...