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How Quantum Physicists Explained Earth’s Oscillating Weather Patterns
...matter physics, but he was also curious about climate physics and the behavior of fluids in Earth’s oceans and atmosphere. Marston suspected there was a connection between geophysical waves and...
How to Think About Relativity
Albert Einstein’s ideas about space-time aren’t exactly intuitive, and they aren’t exactly Einstein’s, either. In Newtonian physics, space and time had their independent identities, and nobody ever got them mixed...
Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
...Bangs, that have always been physically disconnected from our own.) When Everett presented his thesis, and at the same time published the idea in a respected physics journal, it was...
Neutron Lifetime Puzzle Deepens, but No Dark Matter Seen
...will soon appear in the journal Science, reinforces the discrepancy with beam experiments and increases the chance that it reflects new physics rather than mere experimental error. But what new...
Janet Conrad, Seeker of Neutrinos and Other Curiosities
...accounted for in the Standard Model of particle physics. They would point a way forward for theoretical physics in the 21st century. And as a bonus, they may even account...
Squishy or Solid? A Neutron Star’s Insides Open to Debate
...edge of modern physics. A centimeter or two of normal atoms — iron and silicon, mostly — encrusts the surface like the shiny red veneer on the universe’s densest Gobstopper....
Scientists Unveil New Inventory of Universe’s Dark Contents
...— dark energy and dark matter — are mental place holders for unknown physics. “Dark energy” refers to whatever is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate, as astronomers...
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
...no understanding,” as Richard Feynman described it. Paul Dirac considered the origin of the number “the most fundamental unsolved problem of physics.” Numerically, the fine-structure constant, denoted by the Greek...
Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy
...to information security in the 1980s, a few researchers discovered that computational hardness wasn’t the only way to safeguard secrets. Quantum theory, originally developed to understand the physics of atoms,...