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Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math
...to compute. Moreover, they realized that the relationship between eigenvectors and eigenvalues — ubiquitous objects in math, physics and engineering that have been studied since the 18th century — seemed...
Does Natural Law Need Elegant Mathematics?
...of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.” Similar thoughts have been...
Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond
...or out — in clearing a path to inspiration. As a young professor at Harvard University in 1997, Juan Maldacena reshaped fundamental physics with the discovery that, as he put...
If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It
...the tantalizing possibility that physicists could do an end run around physics they don’t understand (quantum gravity in the bulk) by using only physics they do understand (quantum field theory)....
Wormhole Experiment Called Into Question
...the work was one of the hotter trends in modern physics, holography. Holography involves the study of profound relationships known as dualities. On their face, dual systems look completely different....
A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets
...with simple ratios that seemed impervious to the increasing complexities of the thicker systems. “Especially in condensed matter physics, you think that you’re doing something very close to physical or...
Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine’
...charged particle at the heart of every atom, physicists are still struggling to fully understand the proton. High school physics teachers describe them as featureless balls with one unit each...
Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole
...— is spinning not far from the innermost orbit allowed by the laws of physics. If so, this affords astronomers their closest look yet at the funhouse-mirrored space-time that surrounds...
Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles
...physics. So goes the story of cosmic inflation, the modern version of the Big Bang theory. That single short, outrageous growth spurt fits all existing cosmological data well and accounts...