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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...
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case.
...finding, presented today at the Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California, aligns with that of a second group of cosmologists, the 400-strong Dark Energy Survey (DES). Having also observed a...
A New Theory for Systems That Defy Newton’s Third Law
...systems are elegantly described with statistical mechanics, the branch of physics that explains how collections of objects behave. This allows researchers to fully model the conditions that give rise to...