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New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder
...hoping to turn the theories into theorems. Among them were Yau and his then-postdoc, Jun Yin. Yin joined Yau’s group in 2008, after finishing a Ph.D. in Princeton University’s physics...
Analog vs. Digital: The Race Is On To Simulate Our Quantum Universe
...can solve the equations of physics only at those points, circumventing the impossible task of simulating a field’s true infinite resolution. But even with this approximation, classical computer simulations hit...
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
...physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat flows spontaneously from hotter bodies to colder ones. But now, gently and almost casually, Alexssandre de Oliveira...
Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle
The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding. The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost...
Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things
...the book as an antidote to what he thought was an excessive tendency to explain everything in terms of Darwinian natural selection. His thesis — that physics, too, shapes us...
Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality
...a best-selling author of popular science books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, which has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide — placing him in a limelight he’s still...
What Is a Manifold?
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. Standing in the middle of a...
Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics
...philosopher of physics at Rutgers University. Impossible Values Living in Amsterdam in 1637 at the peak of tulip mania (the Dutch frenzy for flowers which led to impossibly valued tulip...
Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down.
The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem. On a radiant...