AvatarThomas Lin2 days agoHow Quantum Physicists ‘Flipped Time’ (and How They Didn’t) | Quanta MagazineQuanta Magazine - Charlie WoodTwo teams have made photons act as if time were simultaneously flowing in two directions. The experiments demonstrate a way to potentially boost the …
AvatarThomas Lin5 days agoMathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes | Quanta MagazineQuanta Magazine - Steve NadisIn three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But a new result shows that in higher dimensions, an infinite number of …
AvatarThomas LinStandard Model of Cosmology Survives JWST’s Surprising Finds | Quanta MagazineQuanta Magazine - Rebecca BoyleReports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been exaggerated. But astronomers still have much …
AvatarThomas LinStarfish Whisperer Develops a Physical Language of Life | Quanta MagazineQuanta Magazine - Charlie WoodNikta Fakhri is adapting and extending concepts from physics to describe how tiny biological components give rise to living organisms. In a sunny lab …
Quanta MagazineThe Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art | Quanta MagazineQuanta Magazine - Anil AnanthaswamyDiffusion models generate incredible images by learning to reverse the process that, among other things, causes ink to spread through water. Ask …
AvatarThomas LinThe Biggest Discoveries in Physics in 2022 | Quanta MagazineQuanta Magazine - Natalie WolchoverIn a year filled with sweet new observations in astronomy and tantalizing breakthroughs in condensed matter physics, the brand-new space telescope …