supersymmetry – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 After a Quantum Clobbering, One Approach Survives Unscathed https://www.quantamagazine.org/after-a-classical-clobbering-a-quantum-advantage-remains-20221207/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/after-a-classical-clobbering-a-quantum-advantage-remains-20221207/#respond Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:20:10 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=121206 The post After a Quantum Clobbering, One Approach Survives Unscathed first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Quantum computers get a lot of hype, but the truth is we’re still not sure what they’ll be good for. These devices leverage the peculiar physics of the subatomic world and have the potential to perform calculations that regular, classical computers simply can’t. But it’s proved difficult to find examples of any algorithms with a clear “quantum advantage” that enables performance beyond the reach...

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]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/after-a-classical-clobbering-a-quantum-advantage-remains-20221207/feed/ 0 A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws https://www.quantamagazine.org/crisis-in-particle-physics-forces-a-rethink-of-what-is-natural-20220301/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/crisis-in-particle-physics-forces-a-rethink-of-what-is-natural-20220301/#respond Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:12:58 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=112796 The post A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn observed that scientists spend long periods taking small steps. They pose and solve puzzles while collectively interpreting all data within a fixed worldview or theoretical framework, which Kuhn called a paradigm. Sooner or later, though, facts crop up that clash with the reigning paradigm. Crisis ensues.

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]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/crisis-in-particle-physics-forces-a-rethink-of-what-is-natural-20220301/feed/ 0 How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-hidden-higgs-could-reveal-our-universes-dark-sector-20170926/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-hidden-higgs-could-reveal-our-universes-dark-sector-20170926/#respond Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:54:08 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=51335 The post How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, has failed to find any of the hoped-for particles that would lead physicists beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. But it’s possible that the LHC has been producing such pivotal new particles all along, and that we’re just not seeing them. “The core of the story...

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]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-hidden-higgs-could-reveal-our-universes-dark-sector-20170926/feed/ 0 Supersymmetry Bet Settled With Cognac https://www.quantamagazine.org/supersymmetry-bet-settled-with-cognac-20160822/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/supersymmetry-bet-settled-with-cognac-20160822/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:14:18 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=28865 The post Supersymmetry Bet Settled With Cognac first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Physicists gathered in Copenhagen today to settle a high-profile wager on a leading theory of nature. The bet, made in 2000 just as construction began on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s biggest atom smasher — forced several renowned physicists to put their money where their theories were. Each participant staked a position on whether at least one of the particles predicted by an...

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]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/supersymmetry-bet-settled-with-cognac-20160822/feed/ 13 What No New Particles Means for Physics https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-no-new-particles-means-for-physics-20160809/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-no-new-particles-means-for-physics-20160809/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2016 16:10:04 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=28430 The post What No New Particles Means for Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe have explored the properties of nature at higher energies than ever before, and they have found something profound: nothing new. It’s perhaps the one thing that no one predicted 30 years ago when the project was first conceived. The infamous “diphoton bump” that arose in data plots in December has disappeared, indicating that it was a...

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