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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
...classical physics — Newton’s laws of motion and so on — that operate at the scales of everyday life. Zurek’s key idea about how this transition occurs, called decoherence, is...
Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
...a new series of essays in Quanta Magazine, I’m taking stock. Is particle physics dying, as Falkowski predicted? Can new physics still be found? What’s the future for particle physicists?...
In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything
...with the infinities. In physics — or most of physics, at any rate — energy differences are what really matters, and with care physicists can subtract one infinity from another...
The Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics: 2025
In 2025, physicists spotted a paradigm-shifting new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and discovered that the Earth’s deep interior may be more connected than previously thought, reshaping...
The Year in Physics
...100th Birthday Party It in no way reflects my feelings toward Quanta staff writer Charlie Wood that my favorite moment of the year in physics happened when he got seasick...
What Are Lie Groups?
...are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics, and they’ve made lasting contributions to number theory and chemistry. The key to their success is the way they...
Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider
...place but are very capable of addressing.” This convergence of quantum information theory and particle physics “really is an emergent field,” said Regina Demina, a physicist at the University of...
Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe
Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has them questioning fundamental assumptions about how physics ought to...
Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback
...strange things. But in one corner of the theoretical-physics world, the particle approach is staging a comeback. A growing band of physicists has been using the typical approach to particle...