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Physicists Study How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide
...“Because it’s an experiment, it contains by definition all the physics that nature wants to put in it including quantum effects and classical effects,” Peiris said. Peiris leads a team...
The Materials Scientist Who Studies the Innards of Exoplanets
...a laboratory for mineralogy and high-pressure physics, and that’s basically how I started working in high-pressure physics. What sparked your attraction to it? In everyday life, you experience the changes...
The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes Into View
...Their method may help bring about new levels of predictive accuracy, which theorists desperately need if they are to move beyond the leading but incomplete model of particle physics. “They...
In Search of Cracks in Albert Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
...and the United Kingdom; then, at 29, she was invited back to Mexico to run the theoretical physics department of the Mesoamerican Center for Theoretical Physics. A few years later,...
Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars
...on to become one of the first women to earn a doctorate in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology. While she was there, she befriended Richard Feynman, who paid...
How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions
...the gravitational pull of the structures defining a void’s edge. Because of this, in a void “very little happens,” Pisani said. “There are no mergers, no complicated astrophysics. This makes...
Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
...September 2017, he was at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Saclay, near Paris, to speak at a meeting about dark energy and modified gravity. The official news had not...
What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?
...physics. And so there was a movement that emerged, now a couple of decades ago, to say: Why don’t we study some animal systems that have already figured it out,...
Asymmetry Detected in the Distribution of Galaxies
...a cherished symmetry of physics. But then, in 1957, the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu’s nuclear decay experiments revealed that our universe indeed has a slight handedness to it: Subatomic...