Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...

By Partha Sinha Entropy fascinates because it announces itself. It spreads, decays and disperses. It makes noise. Like Kali, ...

Entropy is something very peculiar. Let's remember that all physical quantities are conserved: In any closed system, energy is conserved, matter is conserved, momentum is conserved. That means that ...

You must have heard one more time from somewhere that our brains are literally made of the same ‘star stuff’ as the universe.truncate But it gets way weirder. A 2016 study claimed scientists had ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth space-time with the jittery world of quantum mechanics. A new wave of ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...