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An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita
...you wanted to study? I wanted to be a physicist, no question. But I wasn’t sure which area. I finished all the graduate courses in physics by the time I...
New Studies Rescue Gravitational-Wave Signal From the Noise
...whose paper appeared on the physics preprint site arxiv.org in November and is under review by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. “We are in the process of writing...
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time
New tools may reveal how quantum information builds the structure of space. Brian Swingle was a graduate student studying the physics of matter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when...
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....