The ultimate goal of physics is to accurately describe, as precisely as possible, exactly how every physical system that can exist in our Universe will behave. The laws of physics need to apply ...

On a warm summer evening, a visitor to 1920s Göttingen, Germany, might have heard the hubbub of a party from an apartment on Friedländer Way. A glimpse through the window would reveal a gathering of ...

Physicists have long relied on elegant theorems to connect the abstract math of quantum theory with the tangible behavior of particles, yet some of those theorems have rested on assumptions that never ...

The field of functional analysis of symmetric analytic functions explores the interplay between the structure of analytic function algebras and the inherent symmetries dictated by invariance under ...

Imagine a juggler tossing balls into the air. The art of juggling is a dance between motion and pause, where the ball’s speed slows as it ascends, and then quickens on the way down. This dance reveals ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On this episode of our podcast My Favorite ...