Tag: Theoretical Physics

A century after Einstein predicted them, on September 14, 2015, the LIGO interferometers detected gravitational waves from a cataclysmic binary black hole...

From Karl Schwarzschild's 1916 solution to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's stellar collapse limit and Stephen Hawking's black hole radiation, black holes became the supreme...

In 1964, Peter Higgs, François Englert, and Robert Brout solved the mystery of fundamental particle mass. On July 4, 2012, CERN's Large...

In the late 1960s, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg, and Sheldon Glashow unified electromagnetism with the weak nuclear force, predicting massive W and...

In 1964, radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the faint thermal afterglow of the Big Bang—the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation—transforming...

In the 1950s and 60s, particle accelerators unleashed a bewildering zoo of hundreds of subatomic hadrons until Murray Gell-Mann classified them with...

In the late 1940s, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga solved the infinite divergence crisis of quantum field theory through renormalization,...

In the frozen winter of 1938, exiled physicist Lise Meitner solved the enigma of uranium bombardment, calculating from E = mc² that...

In 1928, British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac unified Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics into a four-component matrix equation, naturally deriving electron spin...

Between 1923 and 1927, Louis de Broglie revealed that matter possesses wave nature, Erwin Schrödinger formulated wave mechanics, and Werner Heisenberg established...