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Natalie Wolchover

Natalie Wolchover

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Infinity and Beyond: The Ultimate Test

In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds?

By Natalie Wolchover +1 authors
Peter Byrne
November 3, 2014
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Testing the multiverse hypothesis requires measuring whether our universe is statistically typical among the infinite variety of universes. But infinity does a number on statistics.

astrophysics

Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter

By Natalie Wolchover
October 25, 2014
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For five years physicists have been tantalized by possible evidence of dark matter in the Milky Way’s center. But new results from small satellite galaxies have complicated the story.

statistical physics

At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law

By Natalie Wolchover
October 15, 2014
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A potent theory has emerged explaining a mysterious statistical law that arises throughout physics and mathematics.

BICEP2 graphic.
cosmology

‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust

By Natalie Wolchover
September 21, 2014
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Cosmic dust in the high latitudes of the Milky Way could account for the entire swirl pattern that had been presented as proof of a leading Big Bang theory, according to a new data analysis from the Planck satellite.

Blanco telescope.
Q&A

Finding Dark Energy in the Details

By Natalie Wolchover
September 18, 2014
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The astrophysicist Joshua Frieman seeks to pinpoint the mysterious substance driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.

particle physics

Quark Quartet Fuels Quantum Feud

By Natalie Wolchover
August 27, 2014
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Newly discovered particles are forcing physicists to extend their simple picture of subatomic interactions or replace it with a more nuanced understanding.

theoretical physics

At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale

By Natalie Wolchover
August 18, 2014
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Physicists have begun to explore the idea that mass and length may not be fundamental properties of nature. The hypothesis could help to avoid the conclusion that our world is just a weird bubble in an endlessly foaming multiverse.

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music

By Natalie Wolchover
August 12, 2014
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Martin Hairer was named a 2014 Fields medalist for an epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis that colleagues say “created a whole world.”

Boucing droplet
quantum physics

Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality

By Natalie Wolchover
June 24, 2014
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Surprising oil drop experiments suggest that the quantum world may not be as strange as advertised.


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