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‘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....
Scientists Unveil New Inventory of Universe’s Dark Contents
...— dark energy and dark matter — are mental place holders for unknown physics. “Dark energy” refers to whatever is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate, as astronomers...
Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks
...Nature in April. Yet despite this problem, even the field’s critics find the science too promising to ignore. “The physics behind the creation of Majoranas is well understood theoretically,” said...
Neutrinos Hint of Matter-Antimatter Rift
An early sign that neutrinos behave differently than antineutrinos suggests an answer to one of the biggest questions in physics. As neutrinos and antineutrinos change flavors they may illuminate the...