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Physicists Mourn Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes
...Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he interacted meaningfully with much of the theoretical physics community worldwide, conscious of the fact that important insights come...
How Scientists Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Solar Cycle Prediction
...physics-based methods that are similar to complex climate prediction models. These computer simulations use fluid dynamics and electromagnetism to re-create solar physics; scientists then feed in observational data to anticipate...
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science
...it? Dismissive claims by famous physicists that philosophy is either a useless intellectual exercise, or not on a par with physics because of being incapable of progress, seem to start...
A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart.
...disorder may not be so easily overcome. It is a truth of both physics and everyday experience that things fall apart. Ice melts. Buildings crumble. Any object, if you wait...
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
...physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat flows spontaneously from hotter bodies to colder ones. But now, gently and almost casually, Alexssandre de Oliveira...
Can Space-Time Be Saved?
Curious connections between physics and math suggest to Latham Boyle that space-time may survive the jump to the next theory of reality. Most of today’s leading theoretical physicists have a...
How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?
...am I right, that you were once trained in the world of physics? Moore (02:02): Yeah, it was a physics double major with math, when I was an undergraduate. I...
A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts
...liked physics. I did well in my physics classes, but never felt like I gained an intuitive understanding of everyday physical events. But when I started working with my Ph.D....
Is the Great Neutrino Puzzle Pointing to Multiple Missing Particles?
...and half results. In recent years, they’ve devised new theories that are more complicated than the sterile neutrino, but which, if correct, would thoroughly revolutionize physics — resolving anomalies in...