03 January 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have proposed an experiment using distant quasars that may close the last major loophole of Bell’s inequality, namely, what physicists refer to as as “setting independence” or...
19 December 2016 In a recent paper published in the journal Physical Review by João Magueijo of Imperial College London and Niayesh Afshordi of the University of Waterloo in Canada, the velocity of light in the early universe may be far higher than it is today –...
The two experiments that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012 contain data that may point to the existence of a boson even heavier than the Higgs. This was recently announced by both collaborations earlier in December. The results largely match a rumour that has been...
13 December 2015 A well-known thereom at the heart of mathematical logic, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, has deep implications for physics because it makes a fundamental question about matter literally unanswerable. In 1931, Austrian-born mathematician Kurt...
20 Aug 2015 Singaporean student Mark Sim has become the youngest person in the world to score an “A” in the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) physics examination. Mark was eight years and three months old when he took the...