| 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 | 19476 | String theory needs at least 10 space-time dimensions |
| 2013.06.15 | p.36 | 19477 | General relativity predicts black holes, as former massive stars, and as galaxy centres |
| 2013.06.15 | p.36 | 19475 | Relativity makes time and space jointly basic; quantum theory splits them, and prioritises time |
| 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 | 16417 | About a third of variation in human intelligence is environmental |
| 2013.10.29 | p.31 | 16418 | People can be highly intelligent, yet very stupid |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2017.02.04 | p.31 | 19951 | Entropy is puzzling, so we may need to build new laws which include time directionality |
| 2017 | Why the Universe Exists |
| 01 | p.5 | 21138 | Neutrons are slightly heavier than protons, and decay into them by emitting an electron |
| 01 | p.7 | 21141 | Neutrinos were proposed as the missing energy in neutron beta decay |
| 01 | p.7 | 21140 | Spin is a built-in ration of angular momentum |
| 01 | p.14 | 21142 | Classifying hadrons revealed two symmetry patterns, produced by three basic elements |
| 01 | p.14 | 21143 | Quarks in threes can build hadrons with spin ½ or with spin 3/2 |
| 01 | p.17 | 21144 | Top, bottom, charm and strange quarks quickly decay into up and down |
| 02 | p.23 | 21145 | The four fundamental forces (gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong) are the effects of particles |
| 02 | p.24 | 21147 | Quantum electrodynamics incorporates special relativity and quantum mechanics |
| 02 | p.24 | 21146 | Electrons move fast, so are subject to special relativity |
| 02 | p.26 | 21149 | Quarks have red, green or blue colour charge (akin to electric charge) |
| 02 | p.26 | 21148 | The strong force is repulsive at short distances, strong at medium, and fades at long |
| 02 | p.26 | 21150 | Three different colours of quark (as in the proton) can cancel out to give no colour |
| 02 | p.27 | 21151 | Gluons, the particles carrying the strong force, interact because of their colour charge |
| 02 | p.27 | 21152 | The strong force binds quarks tight, and the nucleus more weakly |
| 02 | p.28 | 21153 | The weak force explains beta decay, and the change of type by quarks and leptons |
| 02 | p.28 | 21154 | Three particles enable the weak force: W+ and W- are charged, and Z° is not |
| 02 | p.29 | 21156 | The weak force particles are heavy, so the force has a short range |
| 02 | p.29 | 21155 | Photons have zero rest mass, so virtual photons have infinite range |
| 02 | p.31 | 21158 | Fermions, with spin ½, are antisocial, and cannot share quantum states |
| 02 | p.31 | 21157 | Particles are spread out, with wave-like properties, and higher energy shortens the wavelength |
| 02 | p.39 | 21159 | Supersymmetry has extra heavy bosons and heavy fermions |
| 02 | p.44 | 21160 | The Higgs field means even low energy space is not empty |
| 03 | p.66 | 21161 | In the standard model all the fundamental force fields merge at extremely high energies |
| 03 | p.69 | 21162 | Only supersymmetry offers to incorporate gravity into the scheme |
| 04 | p.79 | 21163 | The mass of protons and neutrinos is mostly binding energy, not the quarks |
| 04 | p.81 | 21164 | Why do the charges of the very different proton and electron perfectly match up? |
| 04 | p.84 | 21165 | Spin is akin to rotation, and is easily measured in a magnetic field |
| 05 | p.89 | 21166 | Standard antineutrinos have opposite spin and opposite lepton number |
| 05 | p.99 | 21167 | Gravity is unusual, in that it always attracts and never repels |
| 05 | p.101 | 21168 | Gravitional mass turns out to be the same as inertial mass |
| 06 | p.109 | 21169 | Only neutrinos spin anticlockwise |
| 06 | p.110 | 21170 | The Standard Model cannot explain dark energy, survival of matter, gravity, or force strength |
| 07 | p.129 | 21171 | The symmetry of unified electromagnetic and weak forces was broken by the Higgs field |
| 07 | p.134 | 21172 | The evidence for supersymmetry keeps failing to appear |
| 08 | p.144 | 21173 | Supersymmetry says particles and superpartners were unities, but then split |
| 08 | p.150 | 21174 | Dark matter must have mass, to produce gravity, and no electric charge, to not reflect light |
| 08 | p.158 | 21175 | String theory might be tested by colliding strings to make bigger 'stringballs' |
| 09 | p.167 | 21176 | In the Big Band general relativity fails, because gravity is too powerful |
| 09 | p.169 | 21178 | String theory is now part of 11-dimensional M-Theory, involving p-branes |
| 09 | p.169 | 21177 | String theory offers a quantum theory of gravity, by describing the graviton |
| 09 | p.171 | 21179 | Supersymmetric string theory can be expressed using loop quantum gravity |