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Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature
...the fundamental principles behind physical theories. “That’s for me the most interesting question,” Eckstein said. “Is there any new physics behind it? Can physics include such phenomena?” Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine...
What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
...where physics and math must branch off from each other. It is no requirement that math and physics describe the same things (though many believe it is), and infinity might...
The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells
...Schramma and Jalaal have obsessed over a mystery of chloroplast physics. How does each organelle balance the plant’s appetite for light with its distaste for too much? And how, in...
Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?
...“We don’t even fully understand the underlying physics,” Roman said. What causes a magma reservoir to transition from a stable state to catastrophic failure? “They have to have shared physics,”...
What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean?
...author of a 2024 paper on the relevance of Gödelian incompleteness for fundamental physics Kurt Gödel’s proof has far-reaching and unexpected consequences for mathematics. Given that physical laws are formulated...
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5. Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at...
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
...of particle physics. In the new model, both the energy density of dark energy and the mass of dark matter change in concert. Another recent study imagines something similar. According...
How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
...during a radioactive process called beta decay. Something was missing, and there was no known physics to explain it. Then in 1930, the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli proposed a radical...
Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’
...that hypothetical computers based on the laws of quantum physics would be able to rapidly solve difficult math problems. Ever since then, they’ve sought to pinpoint cases where quantum computers...