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Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow
...problem. “At the end of the day when we understand what moonshine is, it will be in terms of physics,” Duncan said. Rotating a square 90 degrees and then reflecting...
Strange Stars Pulse to the Golden Mean
...as a conceivable basis of extraterrestrial communication). He then found hints that the star’s pulses were chaotic. John Learned, professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, Mānoa. But when...
In LHC’s Shadow, America’s Collider Awakens
...the plasma’s peculiar mathematical relationship to black holes, have revealed that it is an almost “perfect” liquid, possessing the lowest viscosity (or internal friction) allowed by quantum physics. A monitor...
In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory
...is a loaded word,” said Mukund Rangamani, a professor at Durham University in the United Kingdom and the co-author of a paper posted recently to the physics preprint site arXiv.org...
Joint Dust Analysis Deflates Big Bang Signal
...Andrei Linde, a professor of physics at Stanford who, along with Alexei Starobinsky and Alan Guth, won the 2014 Kavli Prize in astrophysics for pioneering the theory of inflation. “Parts...
Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease
...Thurner thought there were other, deeper questions that the data could answer as well. In a recent paper in the New Journal of Physics, Thurner and his colleagues Peter Klimek...
Quantum Computing Without Qubits
...but rather are designed to explore specific problems in quantum physics. A classical computer would have to run for thousands of years to compute the quantum equations of motion for...
A Proof That Some Spaces Can’t Be Cut
...dissertation adviser at Harvard, and Tomasz Mrowka, a topologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, combined equations that originated in quantum physics with Floer homology to construct a powerful invariant...
Scientists Conjure Curves From Flatness
...two-dimensional structure,” said Randall Kamien, a professor of physics at Penn who heads the research group behind the result. “The whole thing will just pop up all by itself.” The...