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For His Sporting Approach to Math, a Fields Medal
...had a hard time finding that with physics.” He ended up focusing on an area of math that hewed very close to physics and was motivated almost entirely by physical...
New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence
...around Normandy and across the English Channel into England. The aeronauts were unwittingly participating in an experiment that would alter the course of mathematical physics. Nearly two decades later, a...
The ‘Weirdest’ Matter, Made of Partial Particles, Defies Description
...some of the grittiest problems in fundamental physics. Fractons are quasiparticles — particle-like entities that emerge out of complicated interactions between many elementary particles inside a material. But fractons are...
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....
How Bell’s Theorem Proved ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ Is Real
...about the laws of physics. So when Albert Einstein and two colleagues showed in 1935 that quantum mechanics permits “spooky action at a distance,” as Einstein put it, this feature...
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...
An Ultra-Precise Clock Links the Quantum World With Gravity
...between the top and the bottom of a millimeter-tall cloud of atoms. The work is a step toward studying physics at the intersection of general relativity and quantum mechanics, two...
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...
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...