Physicists claim they may have found a long-awaited explanation for dark energy, the mysterious force that's driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, a new preprint study hints. Their ...

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String theory remains elusive as a 'provable' phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical method that ...

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known fundamental particles and three forces: electromagnetism, ...

Synthese, Vol. 198, No. S16, Supplement 16: Special Issue on Reasoning in Physics (2021), pp. S3671-S3699 (29 pages) In this paper, I offer an analysis of the radical disagreement over the adequacy of ...

It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow life, and especially conscious life, to arise. The fundamental constants ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of ...

This blog post was inspired by a conversation with my father many years ago, under a canopy of stars on a family camping trip. He spoke about the vastness of the universe, igniting a spark in me that ...