Can AI Find Physics Beyond the Standard Model?
In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic rays—particles arriving at high speed from outer space. Anderson built an improved version of a cloud chamber, a device that visually reco…
Large Hadron Collider reveals ‘primordial soup’ of the early universe was surprisingly soupy
Using the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon plasma that filled the universe just after the Big Bang really was a primordial “soup.”
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Does physics say that free will doesn’t exist?
At first glance, it seems like our understanding of physics forbids free will.