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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...
Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?
...typical high-energy theorist in a prestigious university physics department still thinks string theory has a good chance of being correct, at least in part. The field has become siloed between...
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...
A Video Tour of the Standard Model
...the collaboration between physics and mathematics on one of the most important ideas in science: quantum field theory. The basic objects of a quantum field theory are quantum fields, which...
What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly?
...physics: the gallium anomaly. “I think it’s one of the most compelling anomalies in neutrino physics that we have today,” said Ben Jones, a neutrino physicist at the University of...
Massive Black Holes Shown to Act Like Quantum Particles
...real world? That’s what [their research] is about,” said Zvi Bern, a theoretical particle physicist at the Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It...