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Imagining Data Without Division
...Early on, the team realized that its data, while mid-size compared with the largest physics and biology projects, would be big in complexity. “NEON’s contribution to big data is not...
Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter
...sphere and the torus. They’ve also begun to explore the wilderness of phases that can arise near absolute zero in 3-D matter. “It’s not a particular law of physics” that...
Elusive Higgs-Like State Created in Exotic Materials
Two teams of physicists have created the “Higgs mode” – a link between particle physics and the physics of matter. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of...
New Quantum Paradox Clarifies Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong
...the foundations of quantum physics. The experiment is decidedly strange. For example, it requires making measurements that can erase any memory of an event that was just observed. While this...
Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch
...Thomas Galley of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, and Markus Müller of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna have proposed a new...
Trouble Detected in Infamous Dark Matter Signal
...saw otherwise. In a paper posted April 4 to the physics preprint site arxiv.org, three physicists showed that a standard dark-matter WIMP cannot produce the new DAMA signal. “The vanilla...
Black, Hot Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water
...crystals, causing its melting point to soar upward. But all this was easy to imagine and hard to trust. The first models used simplified physics, hand-waving their way through the...
Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning
...Physics in Waterloo, Canada, and a former collaborator of Hawking’s. The proposal represented a first guess at the quantum description of the cosmos — the wave function of the universe....
Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness
...at the quantum scale to Niels Bohr’s most important physics research: his 1913 calculations of the electronic energy levels of the hydrogen atom. Bohr realized that when electrons jump between...