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After Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash
...the same black-hole merger that produced the gravitational waves observed by LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory). The correlation, which is far from certain, would upend entrenched assumptions in physics....
Droplets That ‘Come to Life’
...these active-droplet “protocells” divided and proliferated, evolution could have acted on them, gradually making them more complex and leading to the rise of living cells. The physics of active-droplet division...
A Defense of the Reality of Time
...reality. Change is real, as opposed to an illusion or an artifact of perspective. The laws of physics act within time to generate each moment. Mixing mathematics, physics and philosophy,...
How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
...there’s nothing outside the universe — there’s no observer outside the universe — implies that we need a formulation of physics without background structure. All the theories of physics we...
Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?
...which is associated with the new physics which is beyond the Standard Model. Strogatz (15:10): I see, yeah. Kaplan: So instead of saying there’s some unknown physics so far above...
In the Hunt for Dark Matter, Promises to Keep?
...to another subatomic particle called a neutrino in that it rarely interacts with other matter. With the discovery of the Higgs boson last year, one era of particle physics has...
Could Knots Unravel Mysteries of Fluid Flow?
...offer clues for untangling turbulence — one of the last great unknowns of classical physics — but any order exhibited by the knots was lost in the surrounding chaos. Now,...
Finding Dark Energy in the Details
...astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago and a senior staff scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in nearby Batavia, Ill., co-founded the Dark Energy Survey (DES),...
Strange Stars Pulse to the Golden Mean
...as a conceivable basis of extraterrestrial communication). He then found hints that the star’s pulses were chaotic. John Learned, professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa. But when...