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There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.
“To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action.” So wrote Francis Bacon, counsel to Queen Elizabeth I of England and key architect of the scientific method. In […]
More than any other of Einstein’s equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?
Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, “Who were you before you were born?”
Could anyone still meet the Theoretical Minimum?
Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.
The Big Theoretical Physics Problem At The Center Of The ‘Muon g-2’ Puzzle In early April, 2021, the experimental physics community announced an enormous victory: they had measured the muon’s magnetic […]
In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.
As time goes on, dark energy makes distant galaxies recede from us ever faster in our expanding Universe. But nothing truly disappears.
Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
We can describe what we see happening, but we don’t understand why. Despite our vast cosmic knowledge, enormous unknowns remain. The quantum fluctuations inherent to space, stretched across the Universe […]
Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.
IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.
Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?
The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.
If it weren’t for a subatomic quantum rule, our Universe would be vastly different. In many ways, our views of the distant Universe are the closest things we’ll ever get […]
A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here’s why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money.
Dive into China’s profound intellectual legacy through five seminal texts that have shaped millennia of thought.
When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton’s laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn’t.
Mathematically, it is a monster, but we can understand it in plain English.
The mismatch between theory and experiment is anything but certain. The most exciting moments in a scientist’s life occur when you get a result that defies your expectations. Whether you’re a […]
The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.