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In a Grain, a Glimpse of the Cosmos
...deep inside the mantle or during an outer-space impact. Paul Steinhardt, a professor of physics at Princeton University, with a constructible model of a quasicrystal. A New Mineral Steinhardt, a...
Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory
...never completely went away. And recently, it has found a high-profile champion in Lisa Randall, a professor of physics at Harvard University, who has rescued the disk from scientific oblivion...
How Is Science Even Possible?
...and physics is so powerful in its explanations makes another assumption. That assumption is reductionism. This goes back to another quote of another founder of modern physics, Paul Dirac, who...
‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality
...where previous work in physics let its metaphysics go unacknowledged, in Bell’s work the two were truly and explicitly inseparable. The theorem was not about any particular theory of physics....
Sharon Glotzer’s Deep Curiosity About Order From Chaos
...a course from Bob Cousins, Professor Cousins on, like, particle physics. Like, you know, the upper division Intro to Particle Physics where you learn about quarks and color. And I’m...
At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law
...appeared in models of the wriggling perimeter of a bacterial colony and other kinds of random growth. Before long, it was showing up all over physics and mathematics. “The big...
A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
...physics as “the UV,” drawing an analogy with infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths of light. In the 1960s and ’70s, the particle physics titans Kenneth Wilson and Steven Weinberg put their...
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
...named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove six hours south to Pennsylvania State University, eager to talk to a physics professor there named Murat Günaydin. Furey had figured out...
How to Hang Far Out Over the Edge
...to project past the edge of the table? Can you derive a formula for the maximum overhang possible for n blocks? Those who feel intimidated by the physics can relax....