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Charlie Wood

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A hand holds a spherical, starry universe that resembles almost all the balls in a nearby gumball machine. Two balls in the machine are a different color.
cosmology

Why This Universe? A New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical.

By Charlie Wood
November 17, 2022
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Two physicists have calculated that the universe has a higher entropy — and is therefore more likely — than alternative possible universes.

Multimedia

Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable

By Charlie Wood +1 authors
Merrill Sherman
October 19, 2022
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The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed.

three side-by-side photos of men (one a blond man in a black turtleneck, one a man with white hair and a beard, and one with brown hair and a graying mustache. overlaid on the images are magenta circles connected by dotted lines, suggesting the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.
Nobel Prize

Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics

By Charlie Wood
October 4, 2022
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Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments with entangled particles.

Video in which colorful pieces form in the center of a circule and grow as they move out to the periphery.
quantum gravity

Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe

By Charlie Wood
September 26, 2022
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The past and the future are tightly linked in conventional quantum mechanics. Perhaps too tightly. A tweak to the theory could let quantum possibilities increase as space expands.

A video in which a metallic cube floats above a dark disk as liquid nitrogen evaporates around them
condensed matter physics

High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last

By Charlie Wood
September 21, 2022
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A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory.

A photo illustration of Jie Shan and Kin Fai Mak’s faces overlaid with hexagonal grids.
condensed matter physics

Physics Duo Finds Magic in Two Dimensions

By Charlie Wood
August 16, 2022
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In exploring a family of two-dimensional crystals, a husband-and-wife team is uncovering a potent variety of new electron behaviors.

Video in which a white circle appears in the center of a blue starry field and grows until whiteness engulfs the whole image.
explainers

How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

By Charlie Wood
August 9, 2022
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The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum.

An illustration of a spherical universe sitting inside a machine hooked up to wires.
neural networks

How to Make the Universe Think for Us

By Charlie Wood
May 31, 2022
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Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors.

Illustration of pieces of paper with scientific images on them feeding into a machine. A human hand turns a crank, and equations come out of the machine.
algorithms

Powerful ‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics From Raw Data

By Charlie Wood
May 10, 2022
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Researchers say we’re on the cusp of “GoPro physics,” where a camera can point at an event and an algorithm can identify the underlying physics equation.


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