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Three Puzzles Inspired by Ramanujan
...lives, and is finding applications in computer science, string theory, and the mathematical basis of black hole physics. A monthly puzzle celebrating the sudden insights and unexpected twists of scientific...
Solution: ‘Which Forecasts Are True?’
...as I’ve said before in these columns, is that physics of one or two particles is far simpler, and therefore far kinder to our mathematical models, than the highly messy...
How Life Turns Asymmetric
...view on this: Anything that’s not forbidden by the laws of physics is possible.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com. Scientists are uncovering how our bodies — and everything within...
How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
...physics,” Dunne said. Despite its triumph in physics, the path integral makes mathematicians queasy. Even a simple particle moving through space has infinitely many possible paths. Fields are worse, with...
One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles
...particle physics or cosmology — a state of affairs that could continue indefinitely — this could be the most promising route for putting the latest ideas about quantum gravity to...
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
...time that would happen inside a black hole, and, and the laws of physics would break down in there. We still don’t even know what would happen inside of a...
Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity
...physics. Perhaps, given the chance, the whip-smart Bronstein might have helped to speed things along. Aside from quantum gravity, he contributed to astrophysics and cosmology, semiconductor theory, and quantum electrodynamics,...
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
...In other words, in this view there’s a kind of physics of evolution — and it’s a kind of physics we know about already. The Biosphere Creates Its Own Possibilities...
The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change
...the transition to observe whether the laws of physics vary over time, as predicted by many theories of fundamental physics. Thanks to an apparently accidental, nearly exact cancellation of two...