SEAN CARROLL: There’s no doubt that the multiverse is having something of a moment in popular culture. You know, the Marvel movies leaned into that. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”, various Spider-Man films, but also “Rick and Morty” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once”. You might think it’s physics’ fault because physicists have …
Enlarge / Artist’s illustration of a quantum experiment that studies the physics of traversable wormholes. Wormholes are a classic science fiction trope in popular media, if only because they provide such a handy futuristic plot device for avoiding the problem of relativity violation with longer travel. fast as light. In reality, they are purely theoretical. …
No, physicists haven’t made a real wormhole. What they did was pretty cool though Read More »
Over 600 million cases worldwide: COVID-19 has changed the world. Although there are still those who dodged it. Disease Control and Prevention estimates that almost half the population has never caught the virus and some scientists are struggling to understand why. Milwaukee, at Marquette University, Assistant Professor Dr. Nilanjan Lodh studies human genetics and infectious …
COVID-19 ‘super-crooks’: are they real and could genetics play a role? Read More »
