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Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles
...physics. So goes the story of cosmic inflation, the modern version of the Big Bang theory. That single short, outrageous growth spurt fits all existing cosmological data well and accounts...
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus
...theorist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, said Bacca and her colleagues have exposed a significant problem in nuclear physics. They’ve found, he said, an instance where our...
Why This Universe? A New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical.
...for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, for the same reason that air spreads evenly throughout a room: Weirder options are conceivable, but exceedingly improbable. The universe “may seem extremely fine-tuned,...
Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
...an intriguing talk at the Strings conference in South Korea. The speaker, Juan Maldacena, a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, had recently...
A New Theory for Systems That Defy Newton’s Third Law
...systems are elegantly described with statistical mechanics, the branch of physics that explains how collections of objects behave. This allows researchers to fully model the conditions that give rise to...
Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
...is amazing: You evade the second law of thermodynamics,” said Roderich Moessner, director of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, and a co-author...
How the Universe Got Its Bounce Back
...ways that bounces could conceivably occur. One of the models, described in a paper that will appear in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, comes from Anna Ijjas of...
A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World
...quantum physics. It’s a potpourri of insights that cohere around the positive Grassmannian, and around the unique mind that generated them. “Lauren is one of these people who thinks so...
Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang
...physics, nuclear physics, cosmology and astronomy,” he said. The reaction involves deuterium, a form of hydrogen consisting of one proton and one neutron that fused within the cosmos’s first three...