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Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization
...the wild,” said Strogatz. When you include a second variable, like amplitude variations, “that opens up a new zoo of phenomena.” Roukes, who is a professor of physics, applied physics...
How Gravity Is a Double Copy of Other Forces
...it’s rooted in a different way of understanding gravity.” Gravity Versus the Rest On one side of the fundamental physics divide stand the electromagnetic force, the weak force and the...
The Near-Magical Mystery of Quasiparticles
...Das Sarma is undeterred. “I guarantee you the Majorana will be seen, because its theory is pristine. This is an engineering problem; this is not a physics problem,” he said....
A New Map of All the Particles and Forces
...interactions. Together, the equations formed a succinct theory now known as the Standard Model of particle physics. The Standard Model is missing a few puzzle pieces (conspicuously absent are the...
Did the Chicken Come First or Is It Turtles All the Way Down?
The apparent paradox of the chicken and the egg smells like “turtles all the way down.” This puzzle shows how biology and physics can overcome infinite regress. When you consider...
Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
...September 2017, he was at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Saclay, near Paris, to speak at a meeting about dark energy and modified gravity. The official news had not...
The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
...a different approach to this abridgement, picking and programming what they saw as the key astrophysics. Then, in 2012, a study by Cecilia Scannapieco of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics...
How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions
...the gravitational pull of the structures defining a void’s edge. Because of this, in a void “very little happens,” Pisani said. “There are no mergers, no complicated astrophysics. This makes...
What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?
...physics. And so there was a movement that emerged, now a couple of decades ago, to say: Why don’t we study some animal systems that have already figured it out,...