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Physics Overview: Key Concepts & Research

The document summarizes several unsolved problems and areas of ongoing research in physics. In condensed matter physics, high-temperature superconductivity remains unsolved. In particle physics, experiments provide initial evidence beyond the Standard Model, like neutrino mass, while supersymmetry and dark matter are still being explored. Attempts to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity into a theory of quantum gravity have ongoing for over 50 years without decisive resolution. Many astronomical phenomena like cosmic rays and galaxy rotation also remain unexplained. Complex systems involving chaos, turbulence, and self-organization are still poorly understood despite interest since the 1970s.

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Physics Overview: Key Concepts & Research

The document summarizes several unsolved problems and areas of ongoing research in physics. In condensed matter physics, high-temperature superconductivity remains unsolved. In particle physics, experiments provide initial evidence beyond the Standard Model, like neutrino mass, while supersymmetry and dark matter are still being explored. Attempts to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity into a theory of quantum gravity have ongoing for over 50 years without decisive resolution. Many astronomical phenomena like cosmic rays and galaxy rotation also remain unexplained. Complex systems involving chaos, turbulence, and self-organization are still poorly understood despite interest since the 1970s.

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8/23/2020 Physics - Wikipedia

In condensed matter physics, an important unsolved theoretical


problem is that of high-temperature superconductivity.[89] Many
condensed matter experiments are aiming to fabricate workable
spintronics and quantum computers.[76][90]

In particle physics, the first pieces of experimental evidence for


physics beyond the Standard Model have begun to appear. Foremost
among these are indications that neutrinos have non-zero mass.
These experimental results appear to have solved the long-standing
solar neutrino problem, and the physics of massive neutrinos Feynman diagram signed by R. P.
remains an area of active theoretical and experimental research. The Feynman.
Large Hadron Collider has already found the Higgs boson, but future
research aims to prove or disprove the supersymmetry, which
extends the Standard Model of particle physics. Research on the
nature of the major mysteries of dark matter and dark energy is also
currently ongoing.[91]

Theoretical attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general


relativity into a single theory of quantum gravity, a program ongoing
for over half a century, have not yet been decisively resolved. The
current leading candidates are M-theory, superstring theory and
loop quantum gravity.
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Many astronomical and cosmological phenomena have yet to be physics: a magnet levitating above a
satisfactorily explained, including the origin of ultra-high-energy superconductor demonstrates the
cosmic rays, the baryon asymmetry, the accelerating expansion of Meissner effect.
the universe and the anomalous rotation rates of galaxies.

Although much progress has been made in high-energy, quantum, and astronomical physics, many
everyday phenomena involving complexity,[92] chaos,[93] or turbulence[94] are still poorly understood.
Complex problems that seem like they could be solved by a clever application of dynamics and
mechanics remain unsolved; examples include the formation of sandpiles, nodes in trickling water, the
shape of water droplets, mechanisms of surface tension catastrophes, and self-sorting in shaken
heterogeneous collections.[i][95]

These complex phenomena have received growing attention since the 1970s for several reasons,
including the availability of modern mathematical methods and computers, which enabled complex
systems to be modeled in new ways. Complex physics has become part of increasingly interdisciplinary
research, as exemplified by the study of turbulence in aerodynamics and the observation of pattern
formation in biological systems. In the 1932 Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Horace Lamb said:[96]

I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters on which I hope
for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of
fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic.

See also
Glossary of physics Lists of physics equations List of physicists
Index of physics articles List of important publications Relationship between
in physics mathematics and physics
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