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A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
...and physics at Cambridge, and now between biology, mathematics and physics at Harvard. One positive aspect of being between disciplines is being left alone to find my own way through...
Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal
Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data. One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics. The physicists who run the world’s most sensitive experimental search for dark...
Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab
...where to look for the most elusive theory in physics: one that unites quantum mechanics with the theory of general relativity that describes gravity. And, for good measure, it would...
Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math
...to compute. Moreover, they realized that the relationship between eigenvectors and eigenvalues — ubiquitous objects in math, physics and engineering that have been studied since the 18th century — seemed...
Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears Not to Conserve Energy
...be an expression of the fundamental symmetries of the universe — a “very important part of the edifice of physics,” said Chiara Marletto, a physicist at the University of Oxford....
Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness
...hundred or so years. But now we may be ready to eliminate at least one set of proposals. Recent experiments have mobilized the extreme sensitivity of particle physics instruments to...
Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond
...or out — in clearing a path to inspiration. As a young professor at Harvard University in 1997, Juan Maldacena reshaped fundamental physics with the discovery that, as he put...
If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It
...the tantalizing possibility that physicists could do an end run around physics they don’t understand (quantum gravity in the bulk) by using only physics they do understand (quantum field theory)....
Does Natural Law Need Elegant Mathematics?
...of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.” Similar thoughts have been...