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For His Sporting Approach to Math, a Fields Medal
...had a hard time finding that with physics.” He ended up focusing on an area of math that hewed very close to physics and was motivated almost entirely by physical...
An Ultra-Precise Clock Links the Quantum World With Gravity
...between the top and the bottom of a millimeter-tall cloud of atoms. The work is a step toward studying physics at the intersection of general relativity and quantum mechanics, two...
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‘Impossible’ Particle Discovery Adds Key Piece to the Strong Force Puzzle
...meeting of Syracuse University’s quark physics group, Ivan Polyakov announced that he had uncovered the fingerprints of a semi-mythical particle. “We said, ‘This is impossible. What mistake are you making?’”...
The ‘Weirdest’ Matter, Made of Partial Particles, Defies Description
...some of the grittiest problems in fundamental physics. Fractons are quasiparticles — particle-like entities that emerge out of complicated interactions between many elementary particles inside a material. But fractons are...
How Bell’s Theorem Proved ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ Is Real
...about the laws of physics. So when Albert Einstein and two colleagues showed in 1935 that quantum mechanics permits “spooky action at a distance,” as Einstein put it, this feature...
How Gravity Is a Double Copy of Other Forces
...it’s rooted in a different way of understanding gravity.” Gravity Versus the Rest On one side of the fundamental physics divide stand the electromagnetic force, the weak force and the...
The Near-Magical Mystery of Quasiparticles
...Das Sarma is undeterred. “I guarantee you the Majorana will be seen, because its theory is pristine. This is an engineering problem; this is not a physics problem,” he said....
A New Map of All the Particles and Forces
...interactions. Together, the equations formed a succinct theory now known as the Standard Model of particle physics. The Standard Model is missing a few puzzle pieces (conspicuously absent are the...
Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization
...the wild,” said Strogatz. When you include a second variable, like amplitude variations, “that opens up a new zoo of phenomena.” Roukes, who is a professor of physics, applied physics...