That’s what the Hierarchy Problem is, and that problem is by many measures the greatest unsolved problem in physics. We don't know the answer, but we're not completely in the dark on this.

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron ...

A new tool to break down and segment large data set problems and problems with many parameters in particle physics could have a wide range of applications.

A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to a ...

Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time—the interwoven fabric ...

Researchers attempting to solve the problem of dark matter have proposed a particle that can travel to an unseen fifth dimension. The work is entirely… ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues ...

Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. "I'm mainly a paper-and-pencil type of theorist, doing analytical calculations mostly," Sun said. "My ...

It suggests your subjective experience might come from both your physical brain and the mysterious quantum activity within it ...