fields (physics)

“In a field as large as particle physics, it's good to have a central place to find authoritative answers and information you might need,” says Juerg Beringer, group leader of the Particle Data Group, or PDG, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which oversees the publication. In addition to research ...

The reason is that relativity had to be invented to account for the theory of electromagnetic fields and waves in particular. The two go together. Maxwell's equations are the cause of the replacement of the old physics of absolute time by the new view of time as an additional dimension. The problem is that ...

Soon, she was posing for him a couple Tuesdays a month, in exchange for $5.50 each session and a lot of physics talk. She was studying a nebula, and he was, ... Trimble was a student at a university that enrolled few women, in a field that enlisted few women. But her experience at Caltech wasn't limited ...

"At some point you will create one of these bubbles," study lead author Anders Andreassen, a physicist at Harvard University, told Live Science. "It will ... But instead of crossing a barrier, the instanton forms a bubble within the Higgs field, the field that gives everything mass and gives rise to the Higgs boson.

A study of the evolution of magnetic fields inside neutron stars shows that instabilities can create intense magnetic hot spots that survive for millions of years, even after the star's overall magnetic field has decayed significantly. The results will be presented by Dr Konstantinos Gourgouliatos of Durham ...

With the help of hydrogen and nitrogen nuclei, which also have spins, the electrons oscillate between the two states in an external magnetic field. This process may even be sensitive to Earth's very weak magnetic field. The direction of the molecules compared to the magnetic field could change the nature ...

This video shows a battle between samurai with jet packs. Don't get excited—it's fake. How do I know? There are a few obvious signs of fake-itude, starting with the shaking camera. This battle was likely recorded on a hand held phone—and if you went to all the trouble of creating a rocket pack, couldn't you ...

Feynman, though, never studied plants – unlike some of the physicists featured in the April 2018 special issue of Physics World on “plant physics”, which is out ... Jess Wade talks to Giovanni Sena, who is particularly interested in how electric fields can affect root growth and regeneration; Is photosynthesis ...

Liu and Sakano hoped the symposium would give women in physics exposure to presenting their research and provide more opportunities to build connections in the field. “We want to provide them an encouraging environment so they don't feel alone, so they feel like they have a large support network,” ...

Some of the key topics explored at the symposium included gravitational waves, black holes, dark matter, neutron stars, and nuclear physics; dualities and symmetries in string theory, condensed matter physics, and quantum field theory; quantum information and computing; and the foundations of quantum ...