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A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
...and ubiquitous mathematical techniques in physics, a procedure for calculating the large-scale behavior of physical systems such as elementary particles, fluids and the cosmos. The new work, completed by Pankaj...
Multiverse Collisions May Dot the Sky
...Aspen Center for Physics, Peiris found herself chatting with the Perimeter Institute’s Matt Johnson, who mentioned his interest in developing tools to study the idea. He suggested that they collaborate....
In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds?
Testing the multiverse hypothesis requires measuring whether our universe is statistically typical among the infinite variety of universes. But infinity does a number on statistics. If modern physics is to...
Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter
...get more creative. “Even though many people are working very hard on the WIMP paradigm, people are starting to think more broadly,” said Mark Trodden, a professor of theoretical physics...
At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law
...appeared in models of the wriggling perimeter of a bacterial colony and other kinds of random growth. Before long, it was showing up all over physics and mathematics. “The big...
‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust
...a March 17 news conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. But in the months following the announcement, outside experts cried foul, arguing that the scientists had...
Finding Dark Energy in the Details
...astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago and a senior staff scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in nearby Batavia, Ill., co-founded the Dark Energy Survey (DES),...
The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology
...theory in ecology that applies insights from physics to the study of the environment. John Harte, a professor of ecology at the University of California, Berkeley, has a wry, wizened...
Quark Quartet Fuels Quantum Feud
...it,” explained Thomas Cohen, a physics professor at the University of Maryland. Quantum Chromodynamics Quarks have one of three “color charges,” which are analogous to the primary colors red, green...