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In Lopsided Map of the Cosmos, a Glimmer of Its Origins
...trying to piece together a cosmic origin story from the grainy shadow of a new clue. Matthew Kleban, an associate professor of physics at New York University, and graduate student...
Is Nature Unnatural?
On an overcast afternoon in late April, physics professors and students crowded into a wood-paneled lecture hall at Columbia University for a talk by Nima Arkani-Hamed, a high-profile theorist visiting...
Waiting for the Revolution
...QUANTA MAGAZINE: Why physics, David? DAVID GROSS: At age 13, I read a wonderful book by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld called “The Evolution of Physics.” I was enormously excited...
Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time
...the fundamental laws of physics, was hard to swallow. Did the work constitute a major breakthrough or faulty logic? Jakub Zakrzewski, a professor of physics and head of atomic optics...
Solid or Liquid? Physicists Redefine States of Matter
...physics textbooks say. The atomic patterns in quasicrystals like this model of an aluminium-palladium-manganese surface exhibit order, but never repeat. But this long-accepted explanation for the rigidity of solids fails...
Treading Softly in a Connected World
...complications, and Stanley, a professor of physics at Boston University, thinks he knows why. “Everything depends on everything else,” he said. Three years ago, Stanley and his colleagues discovered the...
Peering Into the Early Universe
...fields of astronomy, physics and cosmology. In addition to the planned experiments, scientists hope to be surprised by unforeseen, paradigm-shifting observations, the way a previous generation of four-meter telescopes discovered...
In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge
...on a computer, their suspicions were confirmed: The interaction between drivers caused the spacing between departures to exhibit a distinctive pattern previously observed in quantum physics experiments. “I was thinking...
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire
...of three cherished notions in theoretical physics must be wrong. When Alice’s fiery fate was proposed this summer, it set off heated debates among physicists, many of whom were highly...