What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has taken a bold approach to the mystery. By using quantum computing and ...

The focus of researchers is to determine the specific arrangement of particles in the ground state, the lowest energy state of the system, by solving these matrix models.

Countable features of Calabi-Yau manifolds, such as the number of holes they have, determine the countable features of our world, such as how many distinct matter particles exist. (Our universe has 12 ...

It’s relatively easy to explain how an arrangement of particles could be functionally conscious. That’s because a “function” can be defined in wholly physical terms.

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But if those particles aren't strange enough for you, I'm here to help. There are other particles that are so rare, we're not even sure they exist. Here are five of the weirdest, rarest ...

Each possible arrangement would lead to new values of the physical constants, and even entirely new laws of physics. The range of possible combinations is known as the landscape, with our universe ...

The ground-state energy E0 as a function of the cutoff for various couplings λ = g2 N = 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 for the SU(2) bosonic model. Even (E) and odd (O) values of are plotted with ...