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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
Jun 10, 2021 — The most prominent of these theories is known as the Standard Model, and it is this framework of physics that has been so successful. “It can explain at a fundamental level literally every single experiment that we’ve ever done,” said David Tong, a physicist at the University of Cambridge. But quantum field theory, or QFT, is indisputably ...
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Oct 7, 2024 — The philosopher Karen Crowther digs into how the space-time fabric could possibly emerge from something non-spatiotemporal. The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles.
High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last - Quanta …
Sep 21, 2022 — The late Philip Anderson, an American Nobel laureate and all-around legend in condensed matter physics, put forth a theory just months after high-temperature superconductivity was discovered. At the heart of the glue, he argued, lay a previously described quantum phenomenon called superexchange — a force arising from electrons’ ability to hop.
How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality - Quanta Magazine
Jan 26, 2022 — Here’s how the same effect manifests in such varied settings, from everyday life down to the smallest scales. In its simplest form, resonance occurs when an object experiences an oscillating force that’s close to one of its “natural” frequencies, at which it easily oscillates. That objects have natural frequencies “is one of the ...
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End - Quanta …
Oct 29, 2020 — The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End. In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information, which seems impossible by definition. The work appears to resolve a paradox that Stephen Hawking first described five decades ago. Ashley Mackenzie for Quanta Magazine.
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How Gödel’s Proof Works - Quanta Magazine
Jul 14, 2020 — His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we’re still coming to grips with the consequences.