Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by mathematician Terence Tao and theoretical physicist David Tong. Six Math Essentials will be Tao’s first math book written for a popular ...
Warp drive has quietly shifted from pure fantasy to a live topic in serious physics, with new models showing how spacetime ...
For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into blockbuster movies and Reddit threads. Now a group of theoretical physicists say ...
A straightforward math tweak could bring tachyon fields into line with the rest of physics. Tachyons are faster-than-light particles, and tachyon fields are special cases of quantum field. The math ...
For this year’s selection, scientific works in both basic and applied research were chosen in 42 areas of three basic fields: mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer and information ...
By partnering with artificial intelligence (AI), a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National ...
The laws of physics do not exist, a theoretical physicist named Sankar Das Sarma argues in a new column published by New Scientist. While we define the laws as the "ultimate laws" of our universe, ...
A Stony Brook University physics professor will share the 2024 Breakthrough Prize for fundamental physics, it was announced this week. The Breakthrough Prize, nicknamed the Oscars of Science, is the ...