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“On Physics” with the Aspen Daily News

Beginning in 2024, Aspen Center for Physics has partnered with Aspen Daily News to create a monthly science column.

A Quantum Computer at Wilson Ho's low temperature quantum lab at UCI.

by A. Douglas Stone

Published September 12, 2024 by the Aspen Daily News

Looking onto the Aspen Center for Physics campus through a window, so that the focus is on a bench in the grass outside Flug Forum.

by Paul Goldbart

Published August 15, 2024 by the Aspen Daily News

Image of a Black Hole

by Cole Miller

Published July 7, 2024 by the Aspen Daily News

Image by SciePro / iStock / Getty Images Plus

by Clare Yu & Robert Austin

Published June 19, 2024 by the Aspen Daily News

Dark matter distributions from the Millennium Simulation Project.

by Daniel Whiteson

Published May 4, 2024 by the Aspen Daily News

Eclipse on August 21, 2017. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

by Evalyn Gates

Published April 5, 2024 by the Aspen Daily News

Copyright United Press International. From the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.

by Gordon Baym

Published March 7, 2024 by the Aspen Daily News

Other Press

At a community open house, three cultural institutions outline plans, gather feedback for housing proposal
Aspen Public Radio

Kaya Williams

The way John Bennett sees it, a shortage of housing options in Aspen is an “existential threat” to the Aspen Center for Physics. The former mayor of Aspen is a longtime volunteer and supporter of the nonprofit, which has historically rented condos and rooms in town for visiting scientists. But the supply has shrunk, and the cost has grown. More of those big thinkers and innovators are now staying in Snowmass Village, spending additional time commuting instead of conducting research. And Bennett worries that could impact both the caliber and longevity of the nonprofit’s programming, with reverberations in the broader scientific community. “If (The Aspen Center for Physics) can’t get the top scientists from around the world to visit here, and don’t have a place to put them up, then they could stop functioning, which would be really, really sad,” Bennet said, “not just for Aspen, but for the entire nation, because the work done here is extraordinarily important to the field of physics.” Read here.

 

Aspen Institute, Music Festival and School, Center for Physics hold open houses for proposed deed-restricted housing project
The Aspen Times

Regan Mertz

The Aspen Idea was born in the 1940s. Since then, the Aspen Institute has championed this concept, and eventually, it paved the way for the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Aspen Center for Physics. These institutions, three of the longest serving nonprofits in Aspen, now face what is considered its most dire problem in recent history: Housing… Read here.

 

‘Housing the Aspen Idea’ unveiled
Aspen Daily News

Josie Taris

At first blush, community members seemed ready to endorse the affordable housing proposal for employees of the three major nonprofits at the Aspen Meadows campus, especially after they learned parking wouldn’t be affected… Read here.

 

Aspen Institute, Music Festival and School, Center for Physics, to submit application for affordable housing at Aspen Meadows campus
The Aspen Times

Staff Report

The Aspen Institute, Aspen Music Festival and School, and Aspen Center for Physics are submitting a land use application to build deed-restricted housing on the Aspen Meadows campus… Read here.

 

Aspen physics turns 50
Nature Magazine

by Michael Turner

Michael S. Turner reflects on how mountain serenity has bred big breakthroughs at the Aspen Center for Physics in Colorado. Over the past 50 years, the Aspen Center for Physics (ACP), nestled in a beautiful valley at 2,400 metres above sea level in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, has provided a ‘circle of serenity’ during the summer months for 10,000 theoretical physicists, including 53 Nobel laureates, from 65 countries. The centre can lay claim to the string-theory revolution, the birth of the arXiv preprint archive and to setting the agenda for condensed-matter physics… Read here.

 

Andrea Ghez, an Aspen Center for Physics member, wins Nobel Prize for work with black holes
The Aspen Times

by Austin Colbert

Long has it been theorized that the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole. Now, after decades of exhaustive research, there is finally substantial proof of its existence and Andrea Ghez had a lot to do with finding those answers. Read here.

 

Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to Universe
The New York Times

by Dennis Overbye

Signaling a likely end to one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science, physicists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe. Read here.

 

In Aspen, Physics on a High Plane
The New York Times

by Dennis Overbye

Utopias need defending. And for almost 40 years, the Aspen Center for Physics — three low-slung buildings on four acres on the outskirts of the ski resort — has been a kind of utopia for physicists. Read here.