How to Think About Relativity - Quanta Magazine
2022年11月14日 · The development of relativity is usually attributed to Albert Einstein, but he provided the capstone for a theoretical edifice that had been under construction since James …
A New Map of All the Particles and Forces | Quanta Magazine
2020年10月22日 · This approach doesn’t offer insight into the relationships between the particles. The force-carrying particles (namely the photon, which conveys the electromagnetic force; the …
How Earth’s Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are …
2020年7月21日 · Faint Young Sun. Magnitude: No net temperature effect. Time frame: Constant. Though the sun’s brightness fluctuates on shorter timescales, it brightens overall by 0.009% …
Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
2022年11月30日 · Editor’s note: In February 2023, a team of physicists led by Norman Yao of Harvard University published a comment about the holographic wormhole experiment …
A Mathematician’s Guided Tour Through High Dimensions
2021年9月13日 · This all adds up to an intuitive understanding that an abstract space is n-dimensional if there are n degrees of freedom within it (as those birds had), or if it requires n …
New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth
2023年12月20日 · Earth’s fate rests on a coin flip. In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Whether Earth survives is an “open question,” said Melinda Soares-Furtado, an …
How Bell’s Theorem Proved ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ Is Real
2021年7月20日 · Here’s how Bell’s theorem showed that “spooky action at a distance” is real. Ups and Downs. The “spooky action” that bothered Einstein involves a quantum phenomenon …
Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis.
2020年7月30日 · In 2016, Gabor and his colleagues modeled the best conditions for a photoelectric cell that regulates energy flow.But to learn why plants reflect green light, Gabor …
Physics News, Interviews and Columns | Quanta Magazine
2025年1月10日 · Quanta’s award-winning coverage of astrophysics, cosmology, quantum physics, geophysics, condensed matter, statistical mechanics, chaos theory, climate science …
High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last
2022年9月21日 · The research advances the perennial ambition of the field: to take cuprate superconductivity and strengthen its underlying mechanism, in order to design world-changing …