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The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games
A two-player game can reveal whether the universe has an infinite amount of complexity. One of the biggest and most basic questions in physics involves the number of ways to...
Cosmologists Debate How Fast the Universe Is Expanding
...Perlmutter of the Supernova Cosmology Project and Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess of the High-Z Supernova Search Team, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Fast forward to July of...
Her Key to Modeling Brains: Ignore the Right Details
...a scientific perspective. It’s still a very cool area of physics for inspiring interesting math and making connections to all kinds of mathematics that aren’t typically considered applied. But from...
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?
...biology with John Tyler Bonner. RATCLIFF: That’s really cool. STROGATZ: He was a very sweet man too. And you know what else, he had a lot of interest in physics,...
How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories
...1980s. Now few areas of physics remain untouched by Bethe’s nearly century-old insight. “Its importance has continued growing to this day,” said Charlotte Kristjansen, a professor at the Niels Bohr...
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
...and why the world appears deterministic rather than quantum mechanically uncertain. But despite its fundamental importance, entropy is perhaps the most divisive concept in physics. “Entropy has always been a...
Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes
...physics, which has long predicted that space should be suffused with substantial amounts of energy. The quantum fields that permeate space fluctuate in strength, never staying exactly at zero; particles...
Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness
...hundred or so years. But now we may be ready to eliminate at least one set of proposals. Recent experiments have mobilized the extreme sensitivity of particle physics instruments to...
Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears Not to Conserve Energy
...be an expression of the fundamental symmetries of the universe — a “very important part of the edifice of physics,” said Chiara Marletto, a physicist at the University of Oxford....