We’re All Living Under Gravity’s Rainbow
Black curtains hang in the windows of a dinky suburban LA apartment, two blocks from the Pacific, blotting out the light. Inside, Thomas Pynchon—early…
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Wiggling metal beams offer a new way to test gravity’s strength
In the quest to measure the fundamental constant that governs the strength of gravity, scientists are getting a wiggle on.
Using a pair of…
Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state: The results open…
To the human eye, most stationary objects appear to be just that -- still, and completely at rest. Yet if we were handed a quantum lens, allowing us to see…