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Multiverse Collisions May Dot the Sky
...Aspen Center for Physics, Peiris found herself chatting with the Perimeter Institute’s Matt Johnson, who mentioned his interest in developing tools to study the idea. He suggested that they collaborate....
The Physical Origin of Universal Computing
...this form of Deutsch’s principle from the laws of physics. Part of the reason is that we don’t yet know what the laws of physics are! In particular, we don’t...
Time’s Arrow Traced to Quantum Source
...from their rubble and sunlight would slink back into the sun. “In classical physics, we were struggling,” said Sandu Popescu, a professor of physics at the University of Bristol in...
Betting on the Future of Quantum Gravity
...professor of particle physics at Imperial College London and Bern’s frequent opponent. Each loss has its consolation prize, however. As Bern and his team pull off increasingly sophisticated calculations, the...
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...
A Fight for the Soul of Science
...declared a “battle for the heart and soul of physics.” The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say...
As Supersymmetry Fails Tests, Physicists Seek New Ideas
...presented last week at the Hadron Collider Physics conference in Kyoto, Japan, ruled out another broad class of supersymmetry models, as well as other theories of “new physics,” by finding...
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...
Decoding the Secrets of Superconductivity
...change how you transport electricity and enable new ways of using electricity,” said Louis Taillefer, a professor of physics at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec. Materials that superconduct under...