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Solution: ‘Natural Law and Elegant Math’
...our object will continue to have a finite velocity and will therefore cover the distance in finite time. Hence, by the idealized laws of physics, the object will never stop,...
Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
...to misusing a refrigerator.” Thus begins a 1969 paper in the journal Physics Education in which Mpemba described an incident at Magamba Secondary School in Tanzania when he and his...
In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
...in one specialist’s words, but which, despite their seeming senselessness, arise frequently in physics. The equations are mathematical abstractions of growth, the hustle and bustle of elementary particles and other...
In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness
...particle physics experiment on Earth will cut to the heart of the mystery much faster. But uncovering these isolated pockets of darkness — and any intricate physics that accompanies them...
The Mysterious Forces Inside the Nucleus Grow a Little Less Strange
...nuclear physics,” said Laura Fabbietti, a physicist at the Technical University of Munich, “understanding [these] interactions from first principles.” After decades of work, powerful ways of spying on “hadrons” —...
Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill
Physicists have solved a key problem of robotic locomotion by revising the usual rules of interaction between simple component parts. In a physics lab in Amsterdam, there’s a wheel that...
The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads
...use a collection of telescopes in the Chilean desert and at the South Pole. Dvorkin’s research sits at the nexus of particle physics and cosmology, which have both reached a...
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?
...you get to longer periods. Strogatz (10:40): Just to make sure I’m following because I think I know what period means, like, say in a first-year physics course, where I’m...
Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab?
...is one of the biggest unresolved and challenging problems in physics, as it seeks to reconcile quantum mechanics, which governs the microscopic world, and general relativity, which describes the macroscopic...