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After a Quantum Clobbering, One Approach Survives Unscathed

By Allison Parshall
December 7, 2022
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A quantum approach to data analysis that relies on the study of shapes will likely remain an example of a quantum advantage — albeit for increasingly unlikely scenarios.

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.

Particle trails
particle physics

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.

Signatories of a bet placed in 2011.
Abstractions blog

Supersymmetry Bet Settled With Cognac

By Natalie Wolchover
August 22, 2016
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The absence of supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider has settled a 16-year-old bet among physicists.

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?

Physics

String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity

By Sabine Hossenfelder
January 12, 2016
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Two leading candidates for a “theory of everything,” long thought to be incompatible, may be two sides of the same coin.

Physics

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.

LHC tunnel
supersymmetry

As Supersymmetry Fails Tests, Physicists Seek New Ideas

By Natalie Wolchover
November 20, 2012
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As the elegant theory of supersymmetry continues to fail experimental tests, physicists debate whether to change course and what the future holds for particle physics.

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