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Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

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The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

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A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

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Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A ...