Enlarge / A compact dwarf galaxy, which may have features that are difficult to explain with standard models of dark matter. (credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)
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Professor Insists That We Actually DON’T Live in a Simulation
Sim Earth Bad news, simulation theorists — if this decorated philosopher and theoretical physicist is to be believed, we may be responsible for our world
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No, physicists didn’t make a real wormhole. What they did was still pretty cool
Enlarge / Artist’s illustration of a quantum experiment that studies the physics of traversable wormholes. Wormholes are a classic trope of science fiction in popular
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A Scientist Is Crowdfunding an Experiment to Check if We Live in a Simulation
Simulating By now, most people have heard of the “simulation theory” that we live in an advanced virtual world — but one theoretical physicist now says
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A Scientist Is Crowdfunding an Experiment to Check if We Live in a Simulation
Simulating By now, most people have heard of the “simulation theory” that we live in an advanced virtual world — but one theoretical physicist now says
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A Super-Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Just Booted Up
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment team has announced the results from its first scientific run today; the experiment is the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector,
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