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As Supersymmetry Fails Tests, Physicists Seek New Ideas
...presented last week at the Hadron Collider Physics conference in Kyoto, Japan, ruled out another broad class of supersymmetry models, as well as other theories of “new physics,” by finding...
A Primordial Nucleus Behind the Elements of Life
...than 50 years ago, but it has taken the rise of modern supercomputers and the development of new mathematical techniques to figure out just how the laws of physics cook...
Classical Computing Embraces Quantum Ideas
Someday, quantum computers may be able to solve complex optimization problems, quickly mine huge data sets, simulate the kind of physics experiments that currently require billion-dollar particle accelerators, and accomplish...
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire
...of three cherished notions in theoretical physics must be wrong. When Alice’s fiery fate was proposed this summer, it set off heated debates among physicists, many of whom were highly...
In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge
...on a computer, their suspicions were confirmed: The interaction between drivers caused the spacing between departures to exhibit a distinctive pattern previously observed in quantum physics experiments. “I was thinking...
Peering Into the Early Universe
...fields of astronomy, physics and cosmology. In addition to the planned experiments, scientists hope to be surprised by unforeseen, paradigm-shifting observations, the way a previous generation of four-meter telescopes discovered...
Treading Softly in a Connected World
...complications, and Stanley, a professor of physics at Boston University, thinks he knows why. “Everything depends on everything else,” he said. Three years ago, Stanley and his colleagues discovered the...
Solid or Liquid? Physicists Redefine States of Matter
...physics textbooks say. The atomic patterns in quasicrystals like this model of an aluminium-palladium-manganese surface exhibit order, but never repeat. But this long-accepted explanation for the rigidity of solids fails...
Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time
...the fundamental laws of physics, was hard to swallow. Did the work constitute a major breakthrough or faulty logic? Jakub Zakrzewski, a professor of physics and head of atomic optics...