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To Win This Numbers Game, Learn to Avoid Math Patterns
...the pigeonhole principle: putting seven pigeons into three holes means at least one hole must have three pigeons in it. Notice the resemblance of this argument to the winning strategy...
A Surprise Discovery Points to the Source of Fast Radio Bursts
...outnumbered the events. The ideas include a variety of wild scenarios involving evaporating black holes, snapping cosmic strings, and even the propulsion systems of alien civilizations. But as the number...
A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
...in general relativity because inside a crumpled sheet of paper there are many singularities, like black holes, and these singularities can touch and interact with each other. So it’s an...
What Is a Particle?
...for calculating the quantum information content of black holes. “You can talk about the abstract existence of 0s and 1s, and how an operator might act on 0s and 1s,...
The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding
...these detectors have stayed quiet, and physicists are increasingly contemplating a broader spectrum of possibilities. On the heavy end, they say the universe’s invisible matter could clump into black holes...
Sharon Glotzer’s Deep Curiosity About Order From Chaos
...of the Skocpol group was to design a flange for a sputtering chamber. To design, like, where do you put the holes for the electron guns, so you could sputter...
Squishy Neutron Star Setback Dampens Hopes of Exotic Matter
...it occurs at all — might not happen until close to the point where neutron stars collapse into black holes. (The precise dividing line isn’t known exactly but is believed...
Beyond the Second Law
...some are abstract and mathematical. Some describe high-energy particles, like those smashed together at CERN; one describes chaos in black holes; and one describes the universe’s expansion. Experimentalists have tested...
Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics
...for their studies of black holes. Half of the 2019 Nobel went to the astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their 1995 discovery of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a...