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Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

By CHARLIE WOOD

The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works.

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EXPLAINERS

 

How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities

By CHARLIE WOOD

Richard Feynman's path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.

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MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

 

A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics

By KEVIN HARTNETT

Symmetry has been a crucial ingredient in every major advance in physics for more than a century. In recent years, symmetries have been reformulated into a form that can now be applied to quantum field theory, promising new breakthroughs.

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ASTRONOMY

 

Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe's First Stars

By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN

Theory has it that "Population III" stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them.

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THEORETICAL PHYSICS

 

'Alien Calculus' Could Save Particle Physics From Infinities

By CHARLIE WOOD

Feynman diagrams brought a measure of meaning to the infinities of quantum electrodynamics. But deep down, this way of approaching quantum field theory doesn't really work at all.

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