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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...
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...
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...
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...
How Scientists Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Solar Cycle Prediction
...physics-based methods that are similar to complex climate prediction models. These computer simulations use fluid dynamics and electromagnetism to re-create solar physics; scientists then feed in observational data to anticipate...
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science
...it? Dismissive claims by famous physicists that philosophy is either a useless intellectual exercise, or not on a par with physics because of being incapable of progress, seem to start...
Can Space-Time Be Saved?
Curious connections between physics and math suggest to Latham Boyle that space-time may survive the jump to the next theory of reality. Most of today’s leading theoretical physicists have a...
A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart.
...disorder may not be so easily overcome. It is a truth of both physics and everyday experience that things fall apart. Ice melts. Buildings crumble. Any object, if you wait...
How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?
...am I right, that you were once trained in the world of physics? Moore (02:02): Yeah, it was a physics double major with math, when I was an undergraduate. I...