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A New Idea for How to Assemble Life
...unlikely things, such as you and me, even exist at all. And it seeks that explanation not, in the usual manner of physics, in timeless physical laws, but in a...
Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?
...might mean in the age of quantum mechanics. The principles of thermodynamics are cornerstones of our understanding of physics. But they were discovered in the era of steam-driven technology, long...
In a Numerical Coincidence, Some See Evidence for String Theory
...at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, and the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “So these corrections are our first way to tell...
Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory
...and he had used the physics framework they provided to think about questions in geometric Langlands. But that work — let alone the physics paper that helped motivate it —...
Remembering the Unstoppable Freeman Dyson
...early as a theoretical physicist, laying out the architecture of modern particle physics. He then moved into the design of nuclear reactors, nuclear-powered space travel, astronomy, astrobiology, climate change and...
Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect
...physics applies. “The equivalence principle allowed you to find the old physics inside the new physics,” Hardy said. “That gave Einstein just enough.” Here’s the analogous principle: Quantum gravity allows...
John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality
Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them. Back in...
Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid
...gravitational physics might just resolve the longstanding dispute on dark matter — and who knows what other breakthroughs might await? “Do I need superfluid models? Physics isn’t really about what...
In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for the Universe’s Missing Matter
...“allows us to make connections between string theory, quantum gravity, particle physics and cosmology, [while] addressing some of the mysteries related to them,” said Ignatios Antoniadis, a physicist at Sorbonne...