Temperature as a game of marbles: The Boltzmann distribution states how many particles have which energy, and can be illustrated with the aid of spheres that are distributed in a hilly landscape. At ...

(Phys.org)—In cold regions on earth, negative temperatures on the Fahrenheit or Celsius scale can often occur in winter; in physics, however, they were so far impossible. On the absolute temperature ...

Hot minus temperatures: At a negative absolute temperature the energy distribution of particles inverts in comparison to a positive temperature. Many particles then have a high energy and few a low ...

Explore the Collective Motion of Humans in mosh pits, revealing surprising parallels to gas particles and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Are humans that different from gas particles? Not ...

The law of atmospheres, also known as the barometric law, states that the pressure n(y) as a function of height y varies as: The pressure in the atmosphere decreases as the altitude increases because ...

The UChicago mathematics professor spoke to the Maroon about his work proving one of the decade’s most important results in mathematical physics.