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![Illustration in which the particles of the Standard Model are arranged as sections of a circle, but the W boson is too big and doesn’t fit.]](https://www.quantamagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/W-Boson_520x292.jpg)
Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics
A new analysis of W bosons suggests these particles are significantly heavier than predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Physicists have found that an elementary particle called the...
Sparse Networks Come to the Aid of Big Physics
...least three continents. The switch marks a historic change for the physics community. “In physics, we are used to developing our own algorithms and computational approaches,” said Carlos Argüelles-Delgado, a...
The End of Theoretical Physics as We Know It
Computer simulations and custom-built quantum analogues are changing what it means to search for the laws of nature. Theoretical physics has a reputation for being complicated. I beg to differ....
Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics
Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments with entangled particles. The physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger...
With a Simple Twist, a ‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics
...hit the solid-state physics field since the 2004 discovery that an intact sheet of carbon atoms — graphene — could be lifted off a block of graphite with a piece...
To Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics, Join Two Kinds of Law
...are astonishingly simple. It is here that we find the two “standard models,” of particle physics and cosmology. Remarkably, modern insights about the most formidable challenge in theoretical physics —...
How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
...then, the vacuum has become a bedrock concept in physics, the foundation of any theory of something. Von Guericke’s vacuum was an absence of air. The electromagnetic vacuum is the...
Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable
...far less gets said about one of the most profound facts to have crystallized in physics over the past half-century: To an astonishing degree, nature is the way it is...
How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality
...far removed from this branch of physics. The development of quantum mechanics showed otherwise. Experiments indicated that light, which had been thought of as an electromagnetic wave, sometimes behaves like...