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Most solutions to the measurement problem look for a reinterpretation of the formalism of quantum mechanics. Models in which the wave function collapses spontaneously, however, follow a different rout...
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John Ellis recalls how theorists and experimentalist friends worked together to find the second gauge boson.
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The results may make it easier to understand type I X-ray bursts, the most common stellar explosions in the galaxy.
Read article 'Cosmology’s golden age'
Nobel laureate George Smoot looks at exciting times now and to come in cosmology.
Read article 'Dark-matter research arrives at the crossroads'
The 2008 DESY Theory Workshop focused on the nature of dark matter.
Read article 'Relativity: A Very Short Introduction'
Robert Cailliau reviews in 2009 Relativity: A Very Short Introduction.
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Researchers gathered in Munich to discuss dark energy.
Read article 'The Pauli principle faces testing times'
The SpinStat 2008 workshop looked at the nature of space–time.
Read article 'CERN pulls Strings together'
The annual “Strings” conference draws together a large number of active researchers in the field from all over the world.
Read article 'Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity'
Starting from a brief introduction to general relativity, this book discusses the different concepts and tools necessary for the fully consistent numerical simulation of relativistic astrophysical sys...
