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What If Gravity Is Actually a Double Copy of Other Forces?
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As far as physicists have been able to determine, nature speaks two mutually unintelligible languages: one for gravity and one for everything else.Albert Einstein first spoke of gravity in terms of be
Astronomers Are Uncovering the Magnetic Soul of the Universe
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Anytime astronomers figure out a new way of looking for magnetic fields in ever more remote regions of the cosmos, inexplicably, they find them.Twenty years ago, astronomers started to detect magnetis
‘Milestone’ Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles
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Every last particle in the universe—from a cosmic ray to a quark—is either a fermion or a boson.Now researchers have discovered the first examples of a third particle kingdom.Anyons, as they’re
Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes?
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The universe has cooked up all sorts of bizarre and beautiful forms of matter, from blazing stars to purring cats, out of just three basic ingredients.The second- and third-generation particles transf