The Biggest Discoveries in Physics in 2023 | Quanta Magazine
Dec 21, 2023 · Video: In 2023, physicists found the gravitational wave background that’s made by supermassive black hole collisions, teleported quantum energy in the lab, and puzzled over JWST’s potentially cosmology-breaking discoveries.
Physics News, Interviews and Columns | Quanta Magazine
Dec 17, 2024 · Quanta’s award-winning coverage of astrophysics, cosmology, quantum physics, geophysics, condensed matter, statistical mechanics, chaos theory, climate science and more.
What Is Quantum Teleportation? - Quanta Magazine
Mar 14, 2024 · Teleporting people through space is still science fiction. But quantum teleportation is dramatically different and entirely real. In this episode, Janna Levin interviews the theoretical physicist John Preskill about teleporting bits and the promise of quantum technology.
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero
Oct 18, 2024 · A round 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers such as 50, 505 and 5,005. An elementary version of the concept of zero was born.
Math News, Interviews and Columns From Quanta Magazine
Dec 11, 2024 · Quanta’s award-winning coverage of algebra, geometry, set theory, number theory, analysis, knot theory, topology, combinatorics, mathematical physics and more.
A Mathematician’s Guided Tour Through High Dimensions
Sep 13, 2021 · 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 coordinates to describe the location of a point. Yet, as we shall see, mathematicians discovered that dimension is more complex than these simplistic descriptions imply.
A New Map of All the Particles and Forces | Quanta Magazine
Oct 22, 2020 · 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 W and Z bosons, which convey the weak force; and the gluons, which convey the strong force) are put on the same footing as the matter particles those forces act …
Why Euler’s Number Is Just the Best | Quanta Magazine
Nov 24, 2021 · Last month, we presented three puzzles that seemed ordinary enough but contained a numerical twist. Hidden below the surface was the mysterious transcendental number e.Most familiar as the base of natural logarithms, Euler’s number e is a universal constant with an infinite decimal expansion that begins with 2.7 1828 1828 45 90 45… (spaces added to highlight the quasi-pattern in the first ...
Biology News, Interviews and Columns From Quanta Magazine
Dec 5, 2024 · Quanta’s award-winning coverage of evolution, neuroscience, genetics, ecology, zoology, microbiology, infectious disease, molecular biology and more.
How to Think About Relativity - Quanta Magazine
Nov 14, 2022 · 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 Clerk Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism into …