Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields. The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball ...

Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...

Researchers are delving into the world of starquakes to understand the densest matter in the universe within neutron stars.

More information: Alessio Rocci et al, The quantum theory of gravitation, effective field theories, and strings: yesterday and today, The European Physical Journal H (2024). DOI: 10.1140/epjh ...

Complex Langevin Dynamics is an innovative approach in quantum field theory (QFT) that addresses significant computational challenges, particularly the notorious "sign problem." This problem ...

Tom Brevoort's Grand Unified Theory for Scott Summers and Jean Grey to be revealed in a new Marvel X-Men comic in June.

Many incompletely understood phenomena lurk in the borderlands between physical theories - between classical and quantum, between rays and waves, and so on. These borderlands - the domain of physical ...