2013 | New Scientist articles |
1017.02.04 | p.31 | 19947 | Hilbert Space is an abstraction representing all possible states of a quantum system |
2010.10.16 | p.25 | 17604 | We are halfway to synthesising any molecule we want |
2010.10.16 | p.25 | 17603 | Chemistry just needs the periodic table, and protons, electrons and neutrinos |
2013.06.15 | p.35 | 19473 | The Schrödinger equation describes the evolution of an object's wave function in Hilbert space |
2013.06.15 | p.35 | 19474 | Quantum states are measured by external time, of unknown origin |
2013.06.15 | p.36 | 19475 | Relativity makes time and space jointly basic; quantum theory splits them, and prioritises time |
2013.06.15 | p.36 | 19477 | General relativity predicts black holes, as former massive stars, and as galaxy centres |
2013.06.15 | p.36 | 19476 | String theory needs at least 10 space-time dimensions |
2013.06.15 | p.37 | 19478 | Light moves at a constant space-time speed, but its direction is in neither space nor time |
2013.10.29 | p.9 | 16420 | 84.5 percent of the universe is made of dark matter |
2013.10.29 | p.31 | 16418 | People can be highly intelligent, yet very stupid |
2013.10.29 | p.31 | 16417 | About a third of variation in human intelligence is environmental |
2013.10.29 | p.33 | 16419 | No one has yet devised a rationality test |
2015.05.23 | p.12 | 19482 | Current physics says matter and antimatter should have reduced to light at the big bang |
2015.05.23 | p.31 | 19483 | CP violation shows a decay imbalance in matter and antimatter, leading to matter's dominance |
2015.06.13 | p.11 | 19484 | Psychologists measure personality along five dimensions |
2015.11.07 | p.31 | 19952 | Black holes have entropy, but general relativity says they are unstructured, and lack entropy |
2015.11.07 | p.32 | 19954 | It is impossible for find a model of actuality among the innumerable models in string theory |
2015.11.07 | p.32 | 19953 | In string theory space-time has a grainy indivisible substructure |
2015.11.07 | p.33 | 19955 | Space-time may be a geometrical manifestation of quantum entanglement |
2015.12.12 | p.28 | 19736 | Neural networks can extract the car-ness of a car, or the chair-ness of a chair |
2015.12.12 | p.29 | 19737 | A system can infer the structure of the world by making predictions about it |
2017.02.04 | p.31 | 19949 | Quantum theory relies on a clock outside the system - but where is it located? |
2017.02.04 | p.31 | 19951 | Entropy is puzzling, so we may need to build new laws which include time directionality |
2017.02.04 | p.31 | 19950 | Entropy is the only time-asymmetric law, so time may be linked to entropy |
2017.02.04 | p.31 | 19948 | Einstein's merging of time with space has left us confused about the nature of time |