Tag: physics
Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able...
A group led by string theory veterans Burt Ovrut of the University of Pennsylvania and Andre Lukas of Oxford went further. They too started...
What’s Up With These Crazy Northern Lights?
The aurora borealis is usually visible only way up north, but two weeks ago the night sky was filled with shimmering curtains of pink...
A Warp Drive Breakthrough Inches a Tiny Bit Closer to ‘Star...
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...
An Old Abstract Field of Math Is Unlocking the Deep Complexity...
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,...
What Kind of Battery Would You Need to Power a Lightsaber?
Melting an ice cube takes 3.34 x 105 joules per kilogram. So a single ice cube with a mass of 50 grams would take...
The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding
Beyond DESI, a slew of new instruments are coming online in the coming years, including the 8.4-meter Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, NASAâs...
The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton
“How are matter and energy distributed?” asked Peter Schweitzer, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut. “We don’t know.”Schweitzer has spent most...
Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in...
Just because you see something done in a movie, that doesn't mean you should try it yourself. Take, for example, a human running...
Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole?
If you live in the US and missed the last total solar eclipse in 2017, good news! You're about to get another chance....
