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[ad_1] “It provides a natural framework, or a bookkeeping mechanism, to assemble very large numbers of Feynman diagrams,” said Marcus Spradlin, a physicist at Brown University...
[ad_1] You can see that it’s limited by the materials in the tires and track (captured by the frictional coefficent) and the gravitational field (so, what...
[ad_1] NEW YORK, September 25, 2024 (Newswire.com) – For over a decade, Quanta Magazine has challenged and delighted fans with stories about the most fundamental questions in...
[ad_1] But not all questions about quantum systems are easier to answer using quantum algorithms. Some are equally easy for classical algorithms, which run on ordinary...
[ad_1] We can break that diagonal motion down into horizontal and vertical portions; for now let’s just focus on the former. Say you start with a...
[ad_1] Now two mathematicians have proved Hawking and his colleagues wrong. The new work—contained in a pair of recent papers by Christoph Kehle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ryan Unger of...
[ad_1] You could say that this is exactly what Isaac Newton’s picture of gravity does—giving a relation between an object’s mass and the gravitational force it...
[ad_1] A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something. [ad_2] Liz Kruesi...
[ad_1] The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Vacuum decay, a process that could end the universe as we know it, may happen...
[ad_1] After 30 days, the algae in the middle were still unicellular. As the scientists put algae from thicker and thicker rings under the microscope, however,...
[ad_1] A gymnast can actually perform both of these types of rotation at the same time—that’s what makes the sport so interesting to watch. In physics,...
[ad_1] The angle at which the light hits the panel, θ, is measured from a line perpendicular to the surface. This means you will get a...
[ad_1] When the elevator is stopped, the two forces are equal and opposite, and the net force is zero. But if you’re accelerating upward, the net...
[ad_1] If or when SLAC’s planned project, the Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX), receives funding—a decision from the Department of Energy is expected in the next...
[ad_1] A group led by string theory veterans Burt Ovrut of the University of Pennsylvania and Andre Lukas of Oxford went further. They too started with...
[ad_1] The aurora borealis is usually visible only way up north, but two weeks ago the night sky was filled with shimmering curtains of pink and...
[ad_1] A team of physicists has discovered that it’s possible to build a real, actual, physical warp drive and not break any known rules of physics....
[ad_1] The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida,...
[ad_1] BOSTON — Nearly 100 cities and towns are sharing more than $11.8 million in state funding aimed at helping them reduce their energy usage and...
[ad_1] BOSTON — Nearly 100 cities and towns are sharing more than $11.8 million in state funding aimed at helping them reduce their energy usage and...