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Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect
...physics applies. “The equivalence principle allowed you to find the old physics inside the new physics,” Hardy said. “That gave Einstein just enough.” Here’s the analogous principle: Quantum gravity allows...
Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid
...gravitational physics might just resolve the longstanding dispute on dark matter — and who knows what other breakthroughs might await? “Do I need superfluid models? Physics isn’t really about what...
Remembering the Unstoppable Freeman Dyson
...early as a theoretical physicist, laying out the architecture of modern particle physics. He then moved into the design of nuclear reactors, nuclear-powered space travel, astronomy, astrobiology, climate change and...
Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow
...problem. “At the end of the day when we understand what moonshine is, it will be in terms of physics,” Duncan said. Rotating a square 90 degrees and then reflecting...
‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust
...a March 17 news conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. But in the months following the announcement, outside experts cried foul, arguing that the scientists had...
Scientists Conjure Curves From Flatness
...two-dimensional structure,” said Randall Kamien, a professor of physics at Penn who heads the research group behind the result. “The whole thing will just pop up all by itself.” The...
Joint Dust Analysis Deflates Big Bang Signal
...Andrei Linde, a professor of physics at Stanford who, along with Alexei Starobinsky and Alan Guth, won the 2014 Kavli Prize in astrophysics for pioneering the theory of inflation. “Parts...
In Natural Networks, Strength in Loops
...in leaves and the cortical blood vessels are organized in this way. “We understand the physics of the connections between entities in full, disgusting detail,” Magnasco said of simple circulatory...
The Game Theory of Life
...“More recently, there have been some interesting, and much sounder, ideas, which make a link between fields that are addressing a similar issue: Statistical physics and evolutionary biology both try...