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Dimensional Reduction: the key to physics’ greatest mystery?
Could the secret to understanding gravity be held in reducing, not increasing, the number of dimensions? By Sabine Hossenfelder
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Meet the scientist on a quest to reunite with his dead father - by building a time machine
Way back in time, in the mid 1950s, 10-year-old Ron Mallett was growing up in the Bronx when he happened upon a comic-book that had a curious contraption on the cover... By Will Storr.
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Neutrinos Hint of Matter-Antimatter Rift
A hint that neutrinos behave differently than antineutrinos suggests an answer to one the biggest questions in physics. By Natalie Wolchover.
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No individual identities for traveling neutrinos
Physicists at MIT announce that subatomic particles called neutrinos can be in “superposition” – that is, without individual identities – when traveling hundreds of miles. By Jennifer Chu.
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The Noise at the Bottom of the Universe
The origin of quantum noise is the modern incarnation of a millennia-old debate. By George Musser.
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Researchers blur the line between classical and quantum physics by connecting chaos and entanglement
Using a small quantum system consisting of three superconducting qubits, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Google have uncovered a link between aspects of classical and quantum physics thought to be unrelated: classical chaos and quantum entanglement. Their findings suggest that it would be possible to use controllable quantum systems to investigate certain fundamental aspects of nature.
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A Fifth Force: Fact or Fiction?
Some physicists claim a new force of nature might have been discovered. If true, that would mean that we have to rewrite the textbooks. By Don Lincoln.
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How Quantum Mechanics Could Be Even Weirder
And what it could mean for the future of computing. By Philip Ball. (June 22, 2016)
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Has a Hungarian physics lab found a fifth force of nature?
Radioactive decay anomaly could imply a new fundamental force, theorists say. By Edwin Cartlidge. (May 25)
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Schrödinger’s cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half
A clever experiment preserves the quantum nature of a set of electromagnetic waves even when they're split apart, a stunt that could help make working quantum computers. By Joshua Sokol (May 26 ’16)
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Electrons slide through the hourglass on surface of bizarre material
A team of researchers at Princeton University has predicted the existence of a new state of matter in which current flows only through a set of surface channels that resemble an hourglass. These channels are created through the action of a newly theorized particle, dubbed the “hourglass fermion,” which arises due to a special property of the material...
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Astronomers in South Africa discover mysterious alignment of black holes
Deep radio imaging by researchers in the University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape, in South Africa, has revealed that supermassive black holes in a region of the distant universe are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction – most likely a result of primordial mass fluctuations in the early universe.
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Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory
University of Houston physicists report finding major theoretical flaws in the generally accepted understanding of how a superconductor traps and holds a magnetic field.
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Why are theoreticians filled with wanderlust?
A large tin holding dozens of keys sits in the office of the [CERN] Theory Secretariat. Each one unlocks a stay on a Theory corridor. Nanie Perrin hands them out, and collects them back, in a constant game of musical chairs - or rather, musical offices. On the Secretariat’s board (the only whiteboard in the corridor), departures are listed in red, arrivals in green.. By Corinne Pralavorio.
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In One Universe, the Cat Dies
How the uncertain fate of a fictional tabby gave us the multiverse.
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Hints of new LHC particle get slightly stronger
One fresh analysis keeps alive physicists’ hope for a breakthrough, but another is disappointing. By Davide Castelvecchi and Elizabeth Gibney. (Mar. 17)
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The hidden neutrino
The explanation for some strange experimental results could lie in undiscovered particles called sterile neutrinos. By Laura Dattaro.
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Hold Up, Did We Just Crack Time Travel?
Astrophysicists famously proved Einstein’s theory on the existence of gravitational waves last week. Here’s the less covered part of it all: It might, down the line, bring us closer to moving through time. By Michael Howard.
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After 100 years, scientists are finally closing in on Einstein’s ripples
The rain began to fall as Joe Giaime and I scrambled down a lonely rise, back toward the observatory’s main building. It wasn’t so much rain as a hard mist, characteristic of the muggy weather southern Louisiana often sees in January when moisture rolls inland from the Gulf of Mexico. As gray clouds fell like a shroud over the loblolly pines all around us, Giaime mused, “Well, I guess you’ve already gathered that we’re in the middle of nowhere."
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Taming Superconductors With String Theory
The physicist Subir Sachdev borrows tools from string theory to understand the puzzling behavior of high-temperature superconductors. By Kevin Hartnett.
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