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Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory
...and he had used the physics framework they provided to think about questions in geometric Langlands. But that work — let alone the physics paper that helped motivate it —...
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness
...Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Russia, and Alexei Kitaev of the California Institute of Technology worked out two schemes for pulling off any quantum calculation: You could include T...
The (Often) Overlooked Experiment That Revealed the Quantum World
...published a review and edited a book on the subject. “It was indeed one of the most important experiments in physics of all time.” The experiment’s interpretation also launched decades...
2023’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
In 2023, physicists found the gravitational wave background that’s made by supermassive black hole collisions, teleported quantum energy in the lab, and puzzled over JWST’s potentially cosmology-breaking discoveries.
The Year in Physics
From the smallest scales to the largest, the physical world provided no shortage of surprises this year. By one metric, this year’s biggest physics news happened 80 years ago. Yet...
In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for the Universe’s Missing Matter
...“allows us to make connections between string theory, quantum gravity, particle physics and cosmology, [while] addressing some of the mysteries related to them,” said Ignatios Antoniadis, a physicist at Sorbonne...
A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart.
...disorder may not be so easily overcome. It is a truth of both physics and everyday experience that things fall apart. Ice melts. Buildings crumble. Any object, if you wait...
What Is the Nature of Time?
...in the past? And how might quantum physics redefine it in the future? Frank is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at M.I.T., a distinguished professor at Arizona State University,...
What Is Quantum Teleportation?
...fundamental questions, including in condensed matter physics, where we’re trying to understand highly entangled states of quantum matter, and in gravitational physics. This story goes back a long way to...