All About Space

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Physicists rely on the SVT to track the locations of charged particles while also measuring their momentum and angles. The IFR was designed to identify muons and to detect neutral hadrons, both to an extreme degree of precision. The EMC can identify

The Christian Science Monitor

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Scientists at Yale University have found that quantum jumps are not as instantaneous or as unpredictable as scientists previously thought.

Nautilus

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It is the biggest of problems, it is the smallest of problems. At present physicists have two separate rulebooks explaining how nature works. There is general relativity, which beautifully accounts for gravity and all of the things it dominates: orbi

How It Works

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How significant is Google’s breakthrough? It’s a technical next step, but it’s not necessarily as significant as some people think. What Google has done is solved an academic problem – one that is entirely useless in a practical sense. It’s a proble

Nautilus

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Inside the South London offices of Doppel, a wearable technology start-up, sandwiched into a single room on a floor between a Swedish coffee shop and a wig-making studio, CEO and quantum physicist Fotini Markopoulou is debating the best way to descri

Nautilus

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Physicists know how to use quantum theory—your phone and computer give plenty of evidence of that. But knowing how to use it is a far cry from fully understanding the world the theory describes—or even what the various mathematical devices scientists

Nautilus

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An issue on time would not be complete without a conversation with Lee Smolin. High school dropout, theoretical physicist, and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, Smolin’s life and work reflect many

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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If you wanted to fall in love with physics, read this book. it’s just full of so many gems, about how maverick physicists like Richard Feynman were thinking. I’m still wrestling with a sort of moral dilemma, I think, as we now look back and re-examin

Nautilus

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This essay is one of the five winners in the 2019 writing competition held by the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University. “The Black Hole Initiative offers a unique environment for thinking about the topic of black holes more creatively and comp

PC Gamer

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A game jam in Finland last year saw Wooton use IBM’s biggest and best quantum computer for procedural generation, but unfortunately holding a gathering this year looks unlikely despite tentative plans for the autumn. There is hope, however, for a 202

Nautilus

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Physicists know how to use quantum theory—your phone and computer give plenty of evidence of that. But knowing how to use it is a far cry from fully understanding the world the theory describes—or even what the various mathematical devices scientists

PC Magazine

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The massive intersection of James Avenue and East Boughton Road in Bolingbrook, Illinois, looks like many other crossroads in suburban America. A drive-through Starbucks keeps watch over 15 lanes of turning and merging mid-size SUVs, most headed for

Nautilus

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It is hard to overstate the anticipation that preceded the opening of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 10 years ago. Smashing protons together at energies well above those produced at any previous particle accelerator, the LHC seemed capable of vindic

Nautilus

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It is the biggest of problems, it is the smallest of problems. At present physicists have two separate rulebooks explaining how nature works. There is general relativity, which beautifully accounts for gravity and all of the things it dominates: orbi

UNCUT

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1 Spinning Song [narration] 2 Idiot Prayer 3 Sad Waters 4 Brompton Oratory 5 Palaces Of Montezuma 6 Girl In Amber 7 Man In The Moon 8 Nobody’s Baby Now 9 (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For? 10 Waiting For You 11 The Merc

Futurity

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A new thought experiment may have exposed a paradox within the theory of quantum mechanics, according to new research. There is likely no other scientific theory that is as well supported as quantum mechanics. For nearly 100 years now, it has repeate

PC Gamer

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Zhenda Xie at Nanjing University in China and his colleagues, meanwhile, have been beaming their qubits between drones a kilometre apart. One photon was sent directly to a ground station and the other to a second drone a kilometre away via a relay dr

Computeractive

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A Microsoft-led team of scientists have backtracked on claims they found an elusive subatomic particle that could help develop more powerful computers. In a 2018 paper in the scientific journal Nature, they said they’d found evidence of Majorana part

Nautilus

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Physics is often baffling, but one principle seems rock-solid: the law of conservation of energy. The world contains this thing called “energy” whose amount never changes. It can change its form or go from one body to another, but its total amount re

All About Space

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This wave-particle duality is central to quantum physics. Light can be thought of as being made of particles called photons, or as a propagating electromagnetic wave. Values in quantum physics are a bit like shoes – they only come in set sizes. Physi

Apple Magazine

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Over the past five decades, standard computer processors have gotten increasingly faster. In recent years, however, the limits to that technology have become clear: Chip components can only get so small, and be packed only so closely together, before

Nautilus

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For an empirical science, physics can be remarkably dismissive of some of our most basic observations. We see objects existing in definite locations, but the wave nature of matter washes that away. We perceive time to flow, but how could it, really?

PC Gamer

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We like phat pipes, and we cannot lie. And over the past 20 years we’ve seen internet connections change from dial-up to ADSL over copper wire, to today’s fibre-optics. So what’s next for how we transfer data? Imagine a network that, instead of usin

Science Illustrated

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The ‘pilot-wave theory’ is a disputed interpretation of quantum mechanics in which a particle behaves like a particle but moves like a wave. It’s difficult to visualise, but physicist Aleks Labuda’s demonstration is elegant. He placed silicone drople

Country Life

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August 7, 1920 THAT the red grouse reaches his highest point of perfection in the county a Yorkshireman has few doubts. A Yorkshire bird is considered to be larger in size and finer in plumage than those of Scotland or any English county; certainly h

The Atlantic

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The Swiss physicist Nicolas Gisin is using an old form of math to rethink the very basics of what we know about time.

BBC Sky at Night

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Is there something innately different about the minds of scientists who make giant leaps? I think you need a certain degree of mathematical aptitude because, for some reason we don’t understand, the fundamental laws that orchestrate the Universe a

TIME

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It wasn’t easy to flummox Albert Einstein, but quantum entanglement had him stumped. Per entanglement theory, it is possible for two particles to become connected in such a way that even if they are placed on opposite ends of the universe, anything t

All About Space

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It still holds that our best theory of gravity is the one that Einstein came up with more than 100 years ago. It predicts locations where space-time ends and gravity becomes infinite – the point of singularity. Gravitational forces beyond the event h

Games World of Puzzles

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In these puzzles, each Arrowhead represents a gamma gun that, when fitted with a tail, sends out a gamma beam which travels straight in the indicated direction through any hollow dots in its path, until a) it slams into another Arrowhead, or b) it hi