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Theories of Everything, Mapped
...be answered in pursuit of the theory of everything. Our map of the frontier of fundamental physics, built by the interactive developer Emily Fuhrman, weights questions roughly according to their...
Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete
...mathematical universe to the real one. Hilbert’s sixth problem called upon researchers to axiomatize the laws of physics — that is, rigorously construct them from a basic set of starting...
The New Laws of Explosive Networks
...they break — has arisen from the physics of coffee. Researchers usually think of network connectivity as happening in a slow, continuous manner, similar to the way water moves through...
Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists
...“On the basis of established wisdoms this cannot possibly happen, and henceforth completely new physics should be at work.” It is too soon to tell what, if anything, this “new...
The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox
...identified three central concepts in physics that could not all simultaneously be true around the event horizon of a black hole. One must be abandoned to resolve this so-called firewall...
A Private View of Quantum Reality
...there is no law.” There’s no ultimate law of physics. All the laws of physics are mutable and that mutability itself is a principle of physics. He’d say, there’s no...
A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass
...gravity is hundreds of millions of trillions of trillions of times weaker than magnetism and the other microscopic forces of nature. This disparity shows up in physics equations as a...
The Particle That Broke a Cosmic Speed Limit
...window into the laws of physics at otherwise unreachable scales — maybe even connecting particle physics with the evolution of the cosmos as a whole. At the very least, they...
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time
New tools may reveal how quantum information builds the structure of space. Brian Swingle was a graduate student studying the physics of matter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when...