At the fundamental level of atoms and subatomic particles, the familiar “classical” physics that accounts for how objects move around gives way to quantum physics, with new rules that defy intuition. Rather, the classical world emerges from the quantum in a comprehensible way: you might say that classical physics is simply what quantum physics looks like at the human scale. All the same, we’re confronted with the question: why is the quantum world the way it is?
Scottish-based scientists have discovered that the nuclei of some atoms are not symmetrical. The finding challenges some of the fundamental concepts of physics. It could explain why there is more matter than antimatter - but it may also end hopes of time travel. The Universe has a fundamental problem. Why is there so much stuff in it? Think back to the Big Bang. That's a bit of a stretch, admittedly. It was getting on for 14 billion years ago. The Big Bang is the prevailing theory about how everything we know began. The theory states that the Bang created equal amounts of matter and antimatter. And that's where the Universe's problem begins. You might expect those equal amounts of matter and
Physics has its own Rosetta Stones. It’s called Laplace’s equation. Laplace’s equation is named for Pierre-Simon Laplace, a French mathematician prolific enough to get a Wikipedia page with several eponymous entries. In the course of proving Newton wrong, Laplace investigated the equation that bears his name.
According to a new study in the journal Nature this week, that may be the most likely scenario for how the two black holes that created the first ripples in space and time detected by humanity came to be. "The black holes were monsters, and the results show that their progenitor stars would have been some of the brightest and most massive in the universe," physicist J.J. Eldridge, who was unaffiliated with the new study, wrote in a News and Views piece accompanying the study. In September 2015, scientists using two twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors in Washington and Louisiana got their first glimpse of the tell-tale ripples in space-time that have eluded direct detection by researchers since they were theorized by Albert Einstein about 100 years ago.
(James Mertens) In 1915, Albert Einstein published the Theory of General Relativity, revolutionizing our perception of the universe. In the theory, space and time are a fabric, permeating even the furthest reaches of the universe. As matter and energy