Credit: Tech ExploristFor the first time, researchers from the Structured Light Laboratory (School of Physics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, led by Professor Andrew Forbes, collaborated with string theorist Robert de Mello Koch from Huzhou University in China (formerly from Wits University). They demonstrated the remarkable feat of perturbing pairs...
The Magnus effect arises from a localized compression of the viscoelastic fluid's structure (illustrated in blue), causing it to shift sideways as the particle undergoes rotation. This shift results in a force that acts perpendicular to the particle's direction of motion. Credit: Niklas Windbacher, Bechinger Research Group.Whether you're familiar with the Magnus effect, you've...
Recently, we ran a piece including the views of well-known science writer John Horgan who talked about a bizarre element of quantum physics confirmed by recent experiments-- that it appears as if there´s no knowledge apart from observers' minds.Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder is decidedly not happy with that approach:" Physicists have revealed that objective...
Image by GettyHowever, we would bet most people do not think that line applies to the actual rules of the universe itself. As it turns out, however, researchers at Microsoft, scientists at Brown University, and one professional who consulted for Disney's "Wrinkle in Time" believe the laws of physics may actually be slowly changing, complicating...
Two neutron stars collide; the resulting gravitational wave spread at the speed of light. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonne.The dead cores of 2 stars collided 130 million yrs earlier in a galaxy somewhat far away.The crash was so extreme that it originated a wrinkle in space-time-- a gravitational wave. That gravitational wave...
Fermilab’s Muon g − 2 experiment uses this circular electromagnet to store muons, so that their magnetic moment can be measured with unprecedented precision.Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory/SPLTheoretical predictions move closer to experimental outcomes, but questions stay concerning possible gaps in the standard model of particle physics.The muon's mysteries still leave physicists mesmerized. Last year, an experiment...
Scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed the validity of the relativity theory with the highest possible accuracy in a study entitled "Exploring Lorentz Invariance Violation from Ultrahigh-Energy γRays Observed by LHAASO," which was published in the most recent issue of Physical Review Letters.According to Einstein's...
