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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...
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...
The Case Against Dark Matter
...he says it’s too soon to tell whether everything in the paper — which draws from quantum information theory, thermodynamics, condensed matter physics, holography and astrophysics — hangs together. Either...
New Proof Distinguishes Mysterious and Powerful ‘Modular Forms’
Using “refreshingly old” tools, mathematicians resolved a 50-year-old conjecture about how to categorize important functions called modular forms, with consequences for number theory and theoretical physics. In a new proof,...
Physicists Study How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide
...“Because it’s an experiment, it contains by definition all the physics that nature wants to put in it including quantum effects and classical effects,” Peiris said. Peiris leads a team...
Asymmetry Detected in the Distribution of Galaxies
...a cherished symmetry of physics. But then, in 1957, the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu’s nuclear decay experiments revealed that our universe indeed has a slight handedness to it: Subatomic...
The Materials Scientist Who Studies the Innards of Exoplanets
...a laboratory for mineralogy and high-pressure physics, and that’s basically how I started working in high-pressure physics. What sparked your attraction to it? In everyday life, you experience the changes...