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Helen Quinn: A Wormhole Between Physics and Education
Helen Quinn has blazed a singular path from the early days of the Standard Model to the latest overhaul of science education in the United States. Peter DaSilva for Quanta...
Color-Changing Material Unites the Math and Physics of Knots
Mathematicians have studied knots for centuries, but a new material is showing why some knots are better than others. One sunny day last summer, Mathias Kolle, a professor at the...
Carlo Rubbia on the Future of Particle Physics
Carlo Rubbia explains why he thinks particle physicists should take the next step by building a “Higgs factory.” Thomas Lewton for Quanta Magazine...
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...
An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands
...returning to physics. Why did you leave science for a while? As much as I love physics and I’m passionate about it, I think the field itself is quite insular,...
The Strange Second Life of String Theory
...Theoretical Physics, has publicly argued that fundamental physics faces a crisis. And then physicists began to realize that the dream of one singular theory was an illusion. The complexities of...
The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
...quantum physics, which governs the world of elementary particles such as electrons and photons. Most researchers have no access to D-Wave’s proprietary system, so they can’t simply examine its specifications...
Moonshine Master Toys With String Theory
...“moonshine”) correspondence to its unlikely source: string theory, a candidate for the fundamental theory of physics that casts elementary particles as tiny oscillating strings. The j-function describes the strings’ oscillations...
A Private View of Quantum Reality
...there is no law.” There’s no ultimate law of physics. All the laws of physics are mutable and that mutability itself is a principle of physics. He’d say, there’s no...