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The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
...named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove six hours south to Pennsylvania State University, eager to talk to a physics professor there named Murat Günaydin. Furey had figured out...
A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
...physics as “the UV,” drawing an analogy with infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths of light. In the 1960s and ’70s, the particle physics titans Kenneth Wilson and Steven Weinberg put their...
The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology
...theory in ecology that applies insights from physics to the study of the environment. John Harte, a professor of ecology at the University of California, Berkeley, has a wry, wizened...
How to Hang Far Out Over the Edge
...to project past the edge of the table? Can you derive a formula for the maximum overhang possible for n blocks? Those who feel intimidated by the physics can relax....
Theories of Everything, Mapped
...be answered in pursuit of the theory of everything. Our map of the frontier of fundamental physics, built by the interactive developer Emily Fuhrman, weights questions roughly according to their...
Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?
...successful conceptual breakthroughs of modern physics, but Einstein’s description of gravity as a curvature in space-time doesn’t easily mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. Recent work that...
The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries
Lurking behind Einstein’s theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry...
Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works
...theories of fundamental physics: quantum fields. “This is a masterpiece in mathematical physics,” said Xin Sun, a mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania. Infinite Fields In physics today, the main...
Quark Quartet Fuels Quantum Feud
...it,” explained Thomas Cohen, a physics professor at the University of Maryland. Quantum Chromodynamics Quarks have one of three “color charges,” which are analogous to the primary colors red, green...