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Are We All Wrong About Black Holes?
...analogy. This connection gave physicists a tantalizing window into what many consider the biggest problem in theoretical physics — how to combine quantum mechanics, our theory of the very small,...
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time
New tools may reveal how quantum information builds the structure of space. Brian Swingle was a graduate student studying the physics of matter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when...
How Quantum Physicists Explained Earth’s Oscillating Weather Patterns
...matter physics, but he was also curious about climate physics and the behavior of fluids in Earth’s oceans and atmosphere. Marston suspected there was a connection between geophysical waves and...
‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party
...traveled from around the world to attend the opening reception of a six-day conference marking the centennial of the most successful theory in physics. The crowd included well-known pioneers of...
Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
...Bangs, that have always been physically disconnected from our own.) When Everett presented his thesis, and at the same time published the idea in a respected physics journal, it was...
How to Think About Relativity
Albert Einstein’s ideas about space-time aren’t exactly intuitive, and they aren’t exactly Einstein’s, either. In Newtonian physics, space and time had their independent identities, and nobody ever got them mixed...
Neutron Lifetime Puzzle Deepens, but No Dark Matter Seen
...will soon appear in the journal Science, reinforces the discrepancy with beam experiments and increases the chance that it reflects new physics rather than mere experimental error. But what new...
Janet Conrad, Seeker of Neutrinos and Other Curiosities
...accounted for in the Standard Model of particle physics. They would point a way forward for theoretical physics in the 21st century. And as a bonus, they may even account...
Squishy or Solid? A Neutron Star’s Insides Open to Debate
...edge of modern physics. A centimeter or two of normal atoms — iron and silicon, mostly — encrusts the surface like the shiny red veneer on the universe’s densest Gobstopper....