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A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics
...physics, researchers are looking to higher symmetries to assist with one of the biggest open questions of all: what principles organize physics beyond the Standard Model. “I want to get...
Ann Nelson Took On the Biggest Problems in Physics
...postdocs and faculty from around the world. Particle physics, particularly theoretical particle physics, can be an incredibly competitive field, but anyone who worked with her would say that Ann was...
Nathan Seiberg on How Math Might Complete the Ultimate Physics Theory
...a lot of cross-fertilization between what today we call math and physics. [Isaac] Newton is a great example. He was motivated by physics when he invented calculus. Over the 20th...
The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI
...for the physics of these old systems.” In 2024, Hopfield and his fellow AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the statistical physics...
Contemplating the End of Physics
Has physics reached the limits of what we can discover — or are the possibilities only just beginning? Is physics finished? The 21st century is often called the age of...
Physics Duo Finds Magic in Two Dimensions
...dubbed it) was a whole new category of substance — a 2D material. Its discovery transformed condensed matter physics, the branch of physics that seeks to understand the many forms...
The Man Making Rwanda Into a Hub for Physics
...partner institute, the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Italy. But another thing I can say, from my past experiences working in Nigeria, is that theoretical physics is the cheapest...
How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?
...In terms of modern physics — by modern, I mean, post-20th century physics, as opposed to Newtonian physics — one of the key ideas is to break away from Euclidean...
Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting
...the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist...