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A hand holds a spherical, starry universe that resembles almost all the balls in a nearby gumball machine. Two balls in the machine are a different color.
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Why This Universe? A New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical.

By Charlie Wood
November 17, 2022
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Two physicists have calculated that the universe has a higher entropy — and is therefore more likely — than alternative possible universes.

Video in which a white circle appears in the center of a blue starry field and grows until whiteness engulfs the whole image.
explainers

How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

By Charlie Wood
August 9, 2022
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The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum.

particle physics

A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws

By Natalie Wolchover
March 1, 2022
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Physicists are reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.

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Abstractions blog

Physicists Study How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide

By Charlie Wood
January 25, 2021
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Since they can’t prod actual universes as they inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process.

The cyclic universe.
Abstractions blog

Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang

By Charlie Wood
August 4, 2020
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Detailed computer simulations have found that a cosmic contraction can generate features of the universe that we observe today.

Multimedia

Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math

By Thomas Lin
November 21, 2018
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On November 16, 2018, more than 200 readers joined writers and editors from Quanta Magazine for a wide-ranging panel discussion that examined the newest ideas in fundamental physics, biology and mathematics research.

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Q&A

Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science

By Philip Ball
May 24, 2018
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In an era when untestable ideas such as the multiverse hold sway, Michela Massimi defends science from those who think it hopelessly unmoored from physical reality.

Illustration of a bowl of dark energy on a weighing scale
Abstractions blog

Why the Tiny Weight of Empty Space Is Such a Huge Mystery

By Natalie Wolchover
March 12, 2018
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The amount of energy infusing empty space seems too small to explain without a multiverse. But physicists have at least one alternative left to explore.

particle physics

What No New Particles Means for Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
August 9, 2016
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Physicists are confronting their “nightmare scenario.” What does the absence of new particles suggest about how nature works?


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