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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...
Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox
...Joe Polchinski, a researcher at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose own stunning paradox about firewalls in the throats of black holes...
Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
...some of the stuff I would later be teaching in my book. But still, this was just a hobby; at the time my academic interest was physics. I did physics...
For Persi Diaconis’ Next Magic Trick …
...smooshing will confer only inconsequentially tiny increments of additional randomness. The cutoff phenomenon, which occurs in a variety of situations in math and physics, owes its discovery to an earlier...
A Grand Theory of Wrinkles
...but they don’t provide much insight into the underlying physics. “There are these huge programs where they basically just put everything and the kitchen sink into it, and then yeah,...
Dark Energy Tested on a Tabletop
...physics,” said Burrage. “Pretty much anytime you want to go beyond that, the new physics you try and introduce gives you new scalar fields.” Scalar fields could produce dark energy...
‘Penguin’ Anomaly Hints at Missing Particles
...governed particle physics for 40 years. “What we find is that this anomaly has persisted,” said Guy Wilkinson, a physicist at the University of Oxford and the spokesperson for the...
Science’s Path From Myth to Multiverse
...Why did you focus on the history of physics and astronomy? Well, that’s what I know about; that’s where I have some competence. But there’s another reason: It’s in physics...