Physicists at Brown University have proposed that the universe’s accelerating expansion may be stabilized by a hidden topological structure in space-time. Their model connects quantum gravity ...
Stephen Hawking was Britain’s most famous modern-day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of ...
One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane ...
A long-standing cosmic mystery is beginning to yield new clues as researchers uncover a strikingly consistent pattern in the ...
The University of Queensland. ) The moments before the Big Bang and the emergence of galaxies, stars and life itself are ...
The findings could more than double our current database of worlds that loop around binary star systems. But researchers need ...
A new study links the universe’s expansion to quantum topology, suggesting that hidden mathematical structures may stabilize the cosmological constant in ways previously unrecognized.
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Symmetry says these crystal vibrations can never mix, but an exotic quantum phase rewrites the rules
Symmetry is one of the most fundamental principles in nature. It describes the rules that make an object look unchanged after ...
A good chunk of cosmology is riding on whether dark matter exists or not. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is ...
A 500-kilometre-wide object in a similar orbit to Pluto challenges our assumptions about small bodies in the outer solar ...
In a new study, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst take a fresh look at a famous ...
A new analysis of the “Boltzmann brain” paradox suggests our memories and sense of reality could, in theory, be random ...
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