The light interacts with the cavity and makes an arbitrary number of bounces before leaking out. This emergent light is traditionally treated as heat in quantum simulations. However, it can still be ...

A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...

MR. SWINBURNE has directed attention to an obscure point in my letter of November 10 which is calculated to produce quite the contrary impression to what I intended. In defining available energy ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." A new paper suggests that time can actually flow forward and backward. Microscopic systems can ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...