Physicists from around the country converged at UC Santa Barbara for two days of talks and camaraderie in memory of esteemed physicist Professor Jim Hartle, one of four cofounders of the campus’s ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...

Matrix models have emerged as a powerful framework in theoretical physics, offering a nonperturbative approach to describing quantum space-time. In these models, fundamental degrees of freedom are ...

Quantum cosmology and loop quantum gravity constitute two intertwined pillars in the quest for a quantum theory of gravity. Quantum cosmology applies the principles of quantum mechanics to the entire ...

Where did the universe come from? Where is it headed? Answering these ­questions requires that we understand physics on two vastly different scales: the cosmological, referring to the realm of galaxy ...

How did the universe start? Did we begin with a big bang, or was there a bounce? Might the cosmos evolve in a cycle of expansion and collapse, over and over for all eternity? Now, in two papers, ...

Thomas Hertog is professor of theoretical physics at KU Leuven (Belgium). The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the Big Bang” in 1998.

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. At first glance, the video seems like an ordinary news recap. “So today the Nobel Prize in Physics was ...

The powers of creation exist within us. Source: Image by Zulman/iStock Hints about the biocentric nature of the universe have been made by some of the greatest scientists in modern physics, including ...