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Science Evolves. Will Science Education?
...studied a mix of physics, mathematical physics and literature at Cornell University.) I also looked for ways to extend my teaching beyond the canned lessons in the school-approved curricular guide....
Physicists Eye Quantum-Gravity Interface
It starts like a textbook physics experiment, with a ball attached to a spring. If a photon strikes the ball, the impact sets it oscillating very gently. But there’s a...
Forging a Qubit to Rule Them All
...qubit. “From a theorist’s perspective, topological quantum computing is the most elegant way of achieving robust quantum computation,” said John Preskill, a professor of theoretical physics and director of the...
On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle
...office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. QUANTA MAGAZINE: What would it mean for physics if sterile neutrinos exist? JANET CONRAD: The Standard Model of particle physics has done very...
The Case for Complex Dark Matter
...my time on is figuring out the cleanest and clearest cases for determining what comes from the physics of dark matter versus the physics of star formation and galaxy formation....
How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
...to talk physics. We had a couple of hours to fill before dinner. I described to Feynman what I thought were exciting if speculative new ideas such as fractional spin...
In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory
...is a loaded word,” said Mukund Rangamani, a professor at Durham University in the United Kingdom and the co-author of a paper posted recently to the physics preprint site arXiv.org...
Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time
...about quantum physics that goes beyond classical physics to endow particles with this supermemory? Researchers have differing opinions. Some say the key is that quantum measurements inevitably disturb a particle....
The Particle That Broke a Cosmic Speed Limit
...window into the laws of physics at otherwise unreachable scales — maybe even connecting particle physics with the evolution of the cosmos as a whole. At the very least, they...