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Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Look out at a distant object, and you’re not seeing it as it is today. It’s size, brightness, and actual distance are all different.
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
U.S. particle physicists recently recommended a list of major research projects that they hope will receive federal funding.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.
We’re cautiously optimistic about our new findings.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?
For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?
Perhaps the whole Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation, originating from what we could call quantum nothingness.
When black holes disappear, what happens to the stuff that fell in? Physicist Brian Cox explains.
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Symmetries aren’t just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental laws governing our reality. But in the expanding Universe, that’s just not true.
There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.
Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
According to renowned physicist Christophe Galfard, physics can’t explain our universe – yet.
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These animals to grow scalpel-sharp and precisely shaped tools that are resistant to breaking.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
Physicist Sean Carroll on entropy, complexity, and the origins of life:
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In the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have existed. Why aren’t they equal today?
There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.
We have two descriptions of the Universe that work perfectly well: General Relativity and quantum physics. Too bad they don’t work together.