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Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
...time, it fulfills his ambition by other means, showing that his intuition about the physics inside black holes was correct, just not for the reason he suspected. Relativity’s Cardinal Sin...
What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory
...from melted bits of Earth. The Apollo rocks are then in direct conflict with what the physics insist must be true. “The canonical model is in serious crisis,” said Sarah...
Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever
...big physics ideas spanning the past half-century, has proposed a solution to an important puzzle about black holes. The problem is that even though these mysterious, invisible spheres appear to...
Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
...formula says that any changes to the microscopic physics of the gas, such as the type of atoms that comprise it, produce equal and opposite shifts in its energy and...
Why the Tiny Weight of Empty Space Is Such a Huge Mystery
...physics, has to say about empty space. A quantum field is empty when there are no particle excitations rippling through it. But because of the uncertainty principle in quantum physics,...
Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time
...Thorne, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology whose work on gravitational waves earned him part of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. “It is connected ultimately to the...
The Algorithm That Lets Particle Physicists Count Higher Than Two
...saw terms merge together and melt away by the thousands. In the 19 computable expressions that remained, he glimpsed the future of particle physics. Today the reduction procedure, known as...
Strange Solar Gamma Rays Discovered at Even Higher Energies
...dynamics of the cosmic particles winding around them. Beyond solving the gamma-ray mystery, researchers think that the HAWC measurements may lead to broader insights into solar and particle physics. The...
The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
...wrote last year in Journal of Physics A. “The other theories find her somewhat odd, somehow different in nature from the rest, yet everyone comes to her for advice, and...