Physicists from around the country converged at UC Santa Barbara for two days of talks and camaraderie in memory of esteemed physicist Professor Jim Hartle, one of four cofounders of the campus’s ...

Quantum cosmology and loop quantum gravity constitute two intertwined pillars in the quest for a quantum theory of gravity. Quantum cosmology applies the principles of quantum mechanics to the entire ...

Matrix models have emerged as a powerful framework in theoretical physics, offering a nonperturbative approach to describing quantum space-time. In these models, fundamental degrees of freedom are ...

A recent experiment at Fermilab has delivered intriguing results that challenge standard predictions, adding fuel to the ...

On January 22, 2025, physicists unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

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The powers of creation exist within us. Source: Image by Zulman/iStock Hints about the biocentric nature of the universe have been made by some of the greatest scientists in modern physics, including ...

The powers of creation exist within us. Image by Zulman/iStock Hints about the biocentric nature of the universe have been made by some of the greatest scientists in modern physics, including Max ...