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Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
...next step in physics, you actually have to do it that way. At that point, physics became linked to mathematics. Mathematics is the language of physics. We’re now going through...
Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences
...in certain fields of physics. A major drive in physics is to reduce the world to its fundamental rules and parts, but you’ve gone in a different direction. Why? We’re...
Charlie Marcus Knows That Quantum Facts Aren’t Complicated
...Because it’s very cool, this whole thing. This is partly I think why you get books like The Tao of Physics. Once, when I was giving a lecture about Taoism...
An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence
Having solved a central mystery about the “twirliness” of tornadoes and other types of vortices, William Irvine has set his sights on turbulence, the white whale of classical physics. It’s...
Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’
...vision of the universe, and with it, a new way of doing physics. Theorists of the era were struggling to find order in an unruly zoo of newfound particles. They...
Job One for Quantum Computers: Boost Artificial Intelligence
...physics professor at Wichita State University, began working to combine quantum physics with artificial intelligence — in particular, the then-maverick technology of neural networks. Most people thought she was mixing...
In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain
...But quantum physics has for the most part ignored reference frames. Alice and Bob, the fictional observers in many experiments in quantum physics, typically have different physical locations, but they’re...
The (Often) Overlooked Experiment That Revealed the Quantum World
...published a review and edited a book on the subject. “It was indeed one of the most important experiments in physics of all time.” The experiment’s interpretation also launched decades...
Spotting Quantum Black Holes in the Lab
Can we test speculations about how quantum physics affects black holes and the Big Bang? In physics, we discover a new law by making a guess, and then comparing the...