physics

Specifically, Antypas’ group makes use of their experiment to seek for a category of darkish matter referred to as ultralight darkish matter. At its heaviest, an ultralight darkish matter particle remains to be a couple of trillion…

Everybody has the similar remark about Batman: He is cool as a result of he is only a regular dude, however he is additionally a superhero. It’s true, he would not have superpowers. Nonetheless, what he does have is a mix of abilities…

Finally, we have the crane itself. I left off some of the unimportant forces here—the most critical are the forces from the magnet and the cart pulling in opposite directions.All of these objects have a net force of zero. That's the…

That might seem like a large volume, but it's not. It's almost half of a liter, so that's half a bottle of soda.Moles and ParticlesThese moles aren’t the furry creatures that make holes in the ground. The name comes from molecules (which…

“ homology theory depends only on the topology of your manifold. is Floer’s incredible insight,” said Agustin Moreno of the Institute for Advanced Study.Dividing by ZeroFloer theory ended up being wildly useful in many areas of geometry…

Remember we’re dealing with the photon’s wave function here. Since the bounce doesn’t constitute a measurement, the wave function doesn’t collapse. Instead, it splits in two: Most of the wave function remains in the box, but the small,…

The project was designed to see if spectroscopy in a helium bath was possible at all—a proof of concept for future experiments that would use even more exotic hybrid atoms.But Sótér was curious about how the hybrid atoms would react to…

Physicists have found that an elementary particle called the W boson appears to be 0.1 percent too heavy—a tiny discrepancy that could foreshadow a huge shift in fundamental physics.The measurement, reported April 7 in the journal…

Even the strongest gravitational waves that pass through the planet, created by the distant collisions of black holes, only stretch and compress each mile of Earth’s surface by one-thousandth the diameter of an atom. It’s hard to…