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Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder
...of what will probably happen. “We like laws of physics to be exact,” said the physicist Chiara Marletto of the University of Oxford. Can the second law be tightened up...
In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death
...physicists. It was an early example of how everyday physics connects to the grandest themes in cosmology. Drop ice cubes into a glass of water, and you create a situation...
The S-Matrix Is the Oracle Physicists Turn To in Times of Crisis
...results. These infinities led Heisenberg to distrust the way quantum physics was depicting reality, and to expect that a revolutionary new theory would eventually overthrow particle physics and fix the...
Explorers Find Passage to Earth’s Dark Age
...the group was in Santa Barbara for the annual Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research (CIDER) workshop at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Each summer, a rotating cast of...
The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential New Particles
...important for new physics.” Poaching Elephants The Standard Model of Particle Physics is our best roster of all the particles that exist in the universe’s zoo. The theory has held...
Pondering the Bits That Build Space-Time and Brains
...the information content of various systems. A playful polymath who is prone to leaping from physics to Proust in mid-conversation, Balasubramanian directs an entire second research group at Penn that...
This Cosmologist Knows How It’s All Going to End
...get to vacuum decay as a possibility is to say that the Standard Model of particle physics — our current understanding of how particle physics works — is the whole...
Physicists Mourn Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes
...Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he interacted meaningfully with much of the theoretical physics community worldwide, conscious of the fact that important insights come...
Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox
...Joe Polchinski, a researcher at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose own stunning paradox about firewalls in the throats of black holes...