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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...
At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale
...for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg who has co-authored several new papers on the scale symmetry approach. The basic equations of particle physics need something extra to rein in the Higgs...
In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
...in one specialist’s words, but which, despite their seeming senselessness, arise frequently in physics. The equations are mathematical abstractions of growth, the hustle and bustle of elementary particles and other...
In Search of Dark Stars
...understand dark matter and her experiences as a woman in physics. “In my entire career I’ve always been aware of being a woman in physics,” she said. “Every room, every...
The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting
...physics tells him so. “The whole of physics is about prediction, and we’ve gotten quite good at it,” said Lässig, a physicist at the University of Cologne. “When we know...
A Bold Critic of the Big Bang’s ‘Smoking Gun’
In mid-March, a panel of four astrophysicists working on an experiment to probe the first moments of time held an extraordinary press conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)...
Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
...only describes simple interactions between matter and electromagnetic fields, according to David Wallace, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford in England, and cannot even capture the physics...
The Game Theory of Life
...“More recently, there have been some interesting, and much sounder, ideas, which make a link between fields that are addressing a similar issue: Statistical physics and evolutionary biology both try...
In a Grain, a Glimpse of the Cosmos
...deep inside the mantle or during an outer-space impact. Paul Steinhardt, a professor of physics at Princeton University, with a constructible model of a quasicrystal. A New Mineral Steinhardt, a...