Physics

Commentary: Is physics too specialized?

Physics Today: In 1905 Albert Einstein published four groundbreaking papers in what today would be considered at least three distinct fields: condensed matter, statistical physics, and fundamental physics. Physics has become increasingly specialized in the past century, and today a similar…

Symmetries Reveal Clues About the Holographic Universe

Quanta Magazine: We’ve known about gravity since Newton’s apocryphal encounter with the apple, but we’re still struggling to make sense of it. While the other three forces of nature are all due to the activity of quantum fields, our best theory…

Multiverse Explanation for Small Higgs Mass

Physics: The standard model of particle physics has been inordinately successful, providing experimental predictions that accurately describe most of our Universe’s forces and fundamental particles. But the model has some glaring holes. It contains no viable dark matter particle, it…

Electron’s wave nature constructed in the lab at last

Physics World: Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the US have reconstructed a representation of the electron’s wave nature – its Bloch wavefunction – in a laboratory experiment for the first time. The work could have applications…