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The Year in Physics
...irreconcilably smaller than the generally accepted number. A flurry of activity followed — hundreds of papers speculating on how the laws of physics would have to be modified to accommodate...
First Support for a Physics Theory of Life
...near volcanic vents in early Earth’s primordial soup (but replicating the conditions that actually gave rise to life is guesswork). Rahul Sarpeshkar, a professor of engineering, physics and microbiology at...
The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life
...be due to the physics of cold water. A Frozen Paradox “Snowball Earth” was on everyone’s lips when Simpson was an undergraduate in the late 1990s. In 1992, the geochemist...
The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics
It’s one thing to smash protons together. It’s another to make scientific sense of the debris that’s left behind. This is the situation at CERN, the laboratory that houses the...
A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
...I was a postdoc, I was teaching myself physics and becoming a physicist, and some of it was tangible, especially since I’m often interested in macroscopic phenomena. So I decided...
The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology
...series dives deep into math and physics theories, kicking off with ‘universality,’ a phenomenon that reveals underlying mathematical connections in the world,” Driscoll wrote in an email. “Depicting universality on...
2020’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
This year, two teams of physicists made profound progress on ideas that could bring about the next revolution in physics. Another has identified the source of a longstanding cosmic mystery....
The Theory That Could Rewrite the Laws of Physics
Marletto explains why traditional approaches to physics fail in important cases such as information theory, and how constructor theory might succeed. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Philipp Ammon for Quanta Magazine...
Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics
...potential applications, we need to understand the fundamental physics that drives the theory of quantum computing. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Adrian Vasquez de Velasco, Chris FitzGerald and DVDP for Quanta Magazine...