Gravity is supposed to be the most familiar force in nature, yet at the deepest level it remains the least understood. A bold ...
For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.
In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics ...
We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...
Can quantum systems become more disordered, as thermodynamics would predict? Yes, they can - if a proper definition of "entropy" is used. It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: ...