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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...
The Computer Scientist Who Builds Big Pictures From Small Details
...Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. Her work currently focuses on how the physics of phase transitions in matter — such as water...
The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology
...to his background in physics. The marriage of these worlds drives his curiosity: How does physics mold animal behavior? He pivoted to sensory ecology for graduate school and joined Robert’s...
Can Space-Time Be Saved?
Curious connections between physics and math suggest to Latham Boyle that space-time may survive the jump to the next theory of reality. Most of today’s leading theoretical physicists have a...