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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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The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries

By K.C. Cole
June 26, 2019
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Lurking behind Einstein’s theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was.

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How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector

By Bob Henderson
September 26, 2017
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The universe has not cooperated with physicists’ hopes. In desperation, many are looking for new ways to search for surprises at the Large Hadron Collider.

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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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Visions of Future Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
September 22, 2015
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Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.

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A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass

By Natalie Wolchover
May 27, 2015
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Three physicists have proposed a new solution to one of the deepest mysteries in particle physics: why the Higgs boson has such a tiny mass.

theoretical physics

At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale

By Natalie Wolchover
August 18, 2014
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Physicists have begun to explore the idea that mass and length may not be fundamental properties of nature. The hypothesis could help to avoid the conclusion that our world is just a weird bubble in an endlessly foaming multiverse.

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Is Nature Unnatural?

By Natalie Wolchover
May 24, 2013
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Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: The universe might not make sense.

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