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Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

September 25, 2024

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move.

If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It

September 25, 2024

A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic space-time fabric.

John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality

September 25, 2024

Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them.

The Unraveling of Space-Time

This special issue of Quanta Magazine explores the ultimate scientific quest: the search for the fundamental nature of reality.

Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?

September 12, 2024

The Industrial Revolution brought us the laws of thermodynamics, and new ideas about work, energy and efficiency. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern about what these concepts might mean in the age of quantum mechanics.

How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles

September 3, 2024

In this article adapted from his new book, "Waves in an Impossible Sea," physicist Matt Strassler explains that the origin of mass in the universe has a lot to do with music.

Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

August 28, 2024

While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on entanglement.

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

August 7, 2024

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Probe Our Hidden Assumptions About Reality

July 30, 2024

Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe.

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