Quantum field theory is the basis for our most successful theories of fundamental physics. And yet, there are things we […]
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Our universe started out looking very simple: hot, dense, smooth, rapidly expanding. According to our best current model, it will
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Einstein’s general theory of relativity, plus some reasonable assumptions about the universe and what it’s made of, has a remarkable
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Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn’t
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A new year, and a new centennial — 300 (regularly-numbered) episodes of Mindscape! Our tradition is to have a solo
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It’s the end of the year, and time for our annual holiday break here at Mindscape. But as usual, we
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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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