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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...
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...
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...
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
...classical physics — Newton’s laws of motion and so on — that operate at the scales of everyday life. Zurek’s key idea about how this transition occurs, called decoherence, is...
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...
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...
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...
Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds
...categorized as artificial intelligence. Schneider leans on AI to better incorporate the effects of clouds into climate models that use physics equations to see what’s ahead. Bretherton, worried that these...
Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize
...plate launches electrons into the air (he would later win the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory). Before the age of attosecond physics, physicists generally assumed that the...