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The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World
...many of their peers. Many discoveries in physics flow from theory to experiment. Albert Einstein theorized that mass bends the fabric of space-time, and then Arthur Eddington observed the effects...
2024 Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
A look back at three of the biggest stories in physics this year, including evidence that dark energy may be weakening, the discovery of a supersolid, and new advances in...
The Year in Physics
Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the cosmos is far weirder than anyone suspected. Back in 1981, Cameron Gordon introduced...
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
...and why the world appears deterministic rather than quantum mechanically uncertain. But despite its fundamental importance, entropy is perhaps the most divisive concept in physics. “Entropy has always been a...
Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound
...impede electric flow. Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer’s theory of phonon-based superconductivity earned them the physics Nobel Prize in 1972. But it turned out not to be the whole story. In...
In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain
...But quantum physics has for the most part ignored reference frames. Alice and Bob, the fictional observers in many experiments in quantum physics, typically have different physical locations, but they’re...
Physicists Spot Quantum Tornadoes Twirling in a ‘Supersolid’
...predictions, but the images alone are a satisfying validation, he said. “This is very relevant for the whole physics community.” Hertkorn wants to see the results replicated by other groups...
It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All
...hypothetical particle thought to carry the force of gravity — is the ultimate physics experiment. Conventional wisdom, however, says it can’t be done. According to one infamous estimate, an Earth-size...
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...