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A New Tool to Help Mathematicians Pack
...in 8-D and a Leech lattice in 24-D. These arrangements are not only densest; they are “universally” optimal. Perhaps for this reason, the structures appear broadly throughout mathematics and physics....
A New Physics Theory of Life
...2014, to reflect that Ilya Prigogine won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, not physics. Jeremy England, a 31-year-old physicist at MIT, thinks he has found the underlying physics driving the...
Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe
...called “effective field theory,” from particle physics and condensed matter physics, fields in which it has been used for decades. By modeling the matter swirling throughout space as a viscous...
A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge
...don’t fully capture the ocean’s physics.) “My mindset has certainly changed,” he said. A central insight of computer science is that, whenever a physical phenomenon is complex enough, it should...
Case for Dark Matter Signal Strengthens
...astrophysics, but it’s almost always astrophysics. All of these groups have tried to be very careful, but it is difficult, and nature may surprise us with astrophysics yet again.” Correction:...
Betting on the Future of Quantum Gravity
...professor of particle physics at Imperial College London and Bern’s frequent opponent. Each loss has its consolation prize, however. As Bern and his team pull off increasingly sophisticated calculations, the...
Possible Echo of Big Bang Detected
...provide strong hints that the new physics responsible for inflation may involve grand unification,” said Marc Kamionkowski, a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, referring to the...
A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
...achievements in math, physics, astronomy and public affairs. H. T. Yau of Harvard University commenced the math section, launching into Dyson’s work on the universality of random matrices. George Andrews...
A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind
...introduced self-organized criticality in a landmark 1987 paper — one of the most highly cited physics papers of the last 30 years. Bak began to see the stabilizing role of...