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What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean?
...author of a 2024 paper on the relevance of Gödelian incompleteness for fundamental physics Kurt Gödel’s proof has far-reaching and unexpected consequences for mathematics. Given that physical laws are formulated...
Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?
...“We don’t even fully understand the underlying physics,” Roman said. What causes a magma reservoir to transition from a stable state to catastrophic failure? “They have to have shared physics,”...
The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells
...Schramma and Jalaal have obsessed over a mystery of chloroplast physics. How does each organelle balance the plant’s appetite for light with its distaste for too much? And how, in...
What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
...where physics and math must branch off from each other. It is no requirement that math and physics describe the same things (though many believe it is), and infinity might...
Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature
...the fundamental principles behind physical theories. “That’s for me the most interesting question,” Eckstein said. “Is there any new physics behind it? Can physics include such phenomena?” Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine...
A Through-The-Lens Look at the World’s Particle Physics Labs
The winning entries in the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk contest showcase the beauty of toil and discovery. Last summer, a wedding photographer walked begrudgingly into a physics laboratory outside Rome....
Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?
...typical high-energy theorist in a prestigious university physics department still thinks string theory has a good chance of being correct, at least in part. The field has become siloed between...
Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award
...create currency that couldn’t be forged. The scheme was based on the laws of quantum physics — a subject Brassard, a computer scientist, knew nothing about. “I was trapped, so...
Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff?
...equations to model the (simplified) physics of the robot. Now they train neural networks to act as “whole-body controllers” by running countless digital simulations of the humanoid. This process teaches...