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These are most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024
The universe is even weirder than you’d expect andrey_l/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in…
These are the most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024
The universe is even weirder than you’d expect andrey_l/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in…
Tweezers made of light could illuminate the quantum twin paradox
Tweezers made from laser beams can hold and move a single atom Aepsilon/Shutterstock The way gravity affects the…
What “naked” singularities are revealing about quantum space-time
adbobe stock/Erika Eros/Alamy/collarge ryan wills Deep inside a black hole, the cosmos gets twisted beyond comprehension. Here, at…
How indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity
Dropping the cup leads to it smashing – or does it? Sunny/Getty Images You drop a cup and it…
Graviton: We’ve glimpsed something that behaves like a particle of gravity
Have we spotted hints of gravitons? zf L/Getty Images Physicists have been searching for gravitons, the hypothetical particles…
The physicist searching for quantum gravity in gravitational rainbows
THE fans roar into life, pumping air upwards at 260 kilometres per hour. Decked out in a baggy…
Tiny magnet could help measure gravity on the quantum scale
All objects exert a gravitational pull, no matter how small Karl Dolenc/BeholdingEye/Getty Images A device that can measure…
Why string theory has been unfairly maligned – and how to test it
WHEN Joseph Conlon was an undergraduate in the early 2000s, he avoided popular science accounts of string theory…
Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything
WHAT if there were a perfect board game? Some combination of boards and pieces and rules – maybe…