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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...
What Are Lie Groups?
...are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics, and they’ve made lasting contributions to number theory and chemistry. The key to their success is the way they...
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...
Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics
...philosopher of physics at Rutgers University. Impossible Values Living in Amsterdam in 1637 at the peak of tulip mania (the Dutch frenzy for flowers which led to impossibly valued tulip...
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....
Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe
Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has them questioning fundamental assumptions about how physics ought to...
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...