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How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics
...1962 set the gold standard in physics instruction and, when later published as a three-volume set, sold millions of copies worldwide. What most people outside of the physics community are...
What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
The Navier-Stokes equations describe simple, everyday phenomena, like water flowing from a garden hose, yet they provide a million-dollar mathematical challenge. Physics contains equations that describe everything from the stretching...
The Year in Physics
From the smallest scales to the largest, the physical world provided no shortage of surprises this year. By one metric, this year’s biggest physics news happened 80 years ago. Yet...
A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics Artist’s rendering of the amplituhedron, a newly discovered mathematical object resembling a multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions. Encoded in its volume are...
Swirling Bacteria Linked to the Physics of Phase Transitions
...student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who was showing the movie at a 2015 physics meeting, highlighted a remarkable observation: As the colony grew more crowded, large groups...
Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
...and physics to stop deadly heart arrhythmia. (00:21) You may remember the horrifying scene that occurred during a recent pro football game, when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on...
A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics
...that it’s time to rethink what we want from a theory, said Jeffrey Bub, a philosopher of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park who works on quantum foundations....
Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes? A Physics Titan Weighs In.
...know why,” said Heather Logan, a particle physicist at Carleton University. In the 1970s, when physicists first worked out the Standard Model of particle physics — the still-reigning set of...
Axions Would Solve Another Major Problem in Physics
...— counterclockwise — and not the other, it would inject a plus sign into particle physics equations rather than a minus sign, yielding electrons and electron-like particles instead of their...