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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
...and why the world appears deterministic rather than quantum mechanically uncertain. But despite its fundamental importance, entropy is perhaps the most divisive concept in physics. “Entropy has always been a...
In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain
...But quantum physics has for the most part ignored reference frames. Alice and Bob, the fictional observers in many experiments in quantum physics, typically have different physical locations, but they’re...
The Computer Scientist Who Builds Big Pictures From Small Details
...Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. Her work currently focuses on how the physics of phase transitions in matter — such as water...
The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology
...to his background in physics. The marriage of these worlds drives his curiosity: How does physics mold animal behavior? He pivoted to sensory ecology for graduate school and joined Robert’s...
Can Space-Time Be Saved?
Curious connections between physics and math suggest to Latham Boyle that space-time may survive the jump to the next theory of reality. Most of today’s leading theoretical physicists have a...
Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
...Coke and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for physics. Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators aspire to bring about a conceptual revolution of the sort that rocked physics in the late 1700s. Joseph-Louis Lagrange...
If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It
...the tantalizing possibility that physicists could do an end run around physics they don’t understand (quantum gravity in the bulk) by using only physics they do understand (quantum field theory)....
The Two Faces of Space-Time
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once. Anyone who has seen the classic...
The Logic That Must Lie Behind a New Physics
...the more fundamental physics — space-time depends on the physics of quantum gravity. That would be demonstrated if general relativity is derivable from quantum gravity. But space-time and its behavior...