As an experimental facility, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva has been extraordinarily successful, discovering the Higgs boson […]
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String theory, the current leading candidate for a theory of quantum gravity as well as other particles and forces, doesn’t
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Publication week! Say hello to Quanta and Fields, the second volume of the planned three-volume series The Biggest Ideas in
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Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been our best understanding of gravity for over a century, withstanding a variety of
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In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell argued that light was a wave of electric and magnetic fields. But it took
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Einstein’s theory of general relativity is distinguished by its singular simplicity and beauty. The Standard Model of Particle Physics, by
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David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and
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Physics is in crisis, what else is new? That’s what we hear in certain corners, anyway, usually pointed at “fundamental”
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Last year’s Nobel Prize for experimental tests of Bell’s Theorem was the first Nobel in the foundations of quantum mechanics
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Is there a multiverse, and if so, how should we think of ourselves within it? In many modern cosmological models,
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