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In Quantum Games, There’s No Way to Play the Odds
...thinking about physics. These “nonlocal” games were conceived in the 1960s by the physicist John Stewart Bell as a way to understand the bizarre quantum phenomenon called entanglement. While quantum...
Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time and Lights Up the Sky
...questions in astrophysics. “In one fell swoop, gravitational wave measurements” have opened “a window onto nuclear astrophysics, neutron star demographics and physics and precise astronomical distances,” said Scott Hughes, an...
Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise
...more than five times longer than the result in 2018. “This is basically a breakthrough result,” said Brian Reville, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in...
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes
...can form. Nevertheless, for the past 50 years, extremal black holes have served as useful models in theoretical physics. “They have nice symmetries that make it easier to calculate things,”...
How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?
...in South Korea and a co-author of a September paper in Physics Letters B describing the idea. The black holes would cause this dark matter to vibrate like a bell...
The Voyage to the End of Ice
...rest of the planet. To nail down the answer, an expedition to the top of the world has to untangle the knotty physics of ice. “Pull out your ice picks,”...
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...
Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory
...in Nature Physics. The experiment was also able to mimic a region around the sun where the plasma hangs in a precarious balance. Within this boundary, plasmas are contained by...
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...