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A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
...physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat flows spontaneously from hotter bodies to colder ones. But now, gently and almost casually, Alexssandre de Oliveira...
Analog vs. Digital: The Race Is On To Simulate Our Quantum Universe
...can solve the equations of physics only at those points, circumventing the impossible task of simulating a field’s true infinite resolution. But even with this approximation, classical computer simulations hit...
New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder
...hoping to turn the theories into theorems. Among them were Yau and his then-postdoc, Jun Yin. Yin joined Yau’s group in 2008, after finishing a Ph.D. in Princeton University’s physics...
‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party
...traveled from around the world to attend the opening reception of a six-day conference marking the centennial of the most successful theory in physics. The crowd included well-known pioneers of...
Why Did The Universe Begin?
...physics. And eventually, I met Stephen who happened to have a very, similar approach to physics. To me, Stephen was really someone who stuck to the scientific method, who stuck...
AI Comes Up With Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.
...that it’s something thousands of people failed to do.” Although AI has not yet led to new discoveries in physics, it’s becoming a powerful tool across the field. Along with...
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.
...space-time continuum itself, as emergent from deeper, more microscopic physics. Carney’s line of thinking, known as entropic gravity, pegs that deeper physics as essentially just the physics of heat. It...
Does Form Really Shape Function?
...whose career has been devoted to using mathematics and physics to explore the form and function of common phenomena. Mahadevan, or Maha to his friends and colleagues, has long been...
Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time
...expertise to the realm of particles, he has now resolved a major open problem in mathematical physics. Zaher Hani studies solutions to equations that arise in oceanography, plasma physics and...