The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.” In 2014, a …
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The Strange Theory That There Is Only One Electron In The Universe
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‘It’s an efficient machine to destroy nuclear waste’: nuclear future powered by thorium beckons
At COP28 over 20 countries pledged to triple the world’s nuclear energy capacity by 2050 in another step towards net zero. For many, this was a …
Why Warp Drives Are About To Get Better
The mathematics of warp drives is fiendishly difficult. Now a specialist software package is set to change the way physicists model Star Trek-like …
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Worrying reason the deepest hole in the world was sealed off
There's a massive hole in Russia that was once dubbed 'the entrance to hell'. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union decided to build the deepest …
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Physicist Studying SARS-CoV-2 Virus Believes He Has Found Hints We Are Living In A Simulation
A physicist studying mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus claims to have found evidence for a new law of physics termed the "second law of …