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Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes
...physics — the reigning set of equations describing the subatomic world. Taken alone, each oddity looks like a statistical fluctuation, and they may all evaporate with additional data, as has...
Neutrinos Suggest Solution to Mystery of Universe’s Existence
...Model of particle physics, every particle has a mirror-image particle that carries the opposite electrical charge — an antimatter particle. When matter and antimatter particles collide, they annihilate in a...
Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
...battery — but all he has access to is empty space. Fortunately, his friend Alice has a fully equipped physics lab in a far-off location. Alice measures the field in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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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?’”...