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Physics Today 52 (8), 9 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802808

Reference Frame

Physics Today 52 (8), 11–13 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882769

Letters

Physics Today 52 (8), 15–83 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882770

Search and Discovery

Physics Today 52 (8), 17–19 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882771

The discovery of two new elements where none had been expected gives nuclear physicists hope of exploring hitherto inaccessible regions of the nuclear chart.

Physics Today 52 (8), 18 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882772
Physics Today 52 (8), 19–21 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882773

By measuring hundreds of periodically varying stars out to 80 million light‐years, the Hubble telescope has calibrated much brighter cosmological yardsticks that we can see billions of light‐years away.

Physics Today 52 (8), 21–24 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882774

As geochemists, modelers, and seismologists try to make sense of data from Earth's mantle, a new model poses challenges to each group and suggests that progress in understanding the deepest regions of the mantle can occur only on a broad front.

Physics Today 52 (8), 23 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802809

Articles

In Special Collection: Quantum archive
Physics Today 52 (8), 26–31 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882775

The traditional Copenhagen orthodoxy saddles quantum theory with embarrassments like Schrödinger's cat and the claim that properties don't exist until you measure them. The consistent‐histories approach seeks a sensible remedy.

Physics Today 52 (8), 32–37 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882776

Novel detectors that operate at 60 millikelvin are now being used to study cosmic gas at millions of kelvin

Physics Today 52 (8), 39–45 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882777

Chaotic dynamics in real systems does not provide finite relaxation time to equilibrium or fast decay of fluctuations, and chaotic systems are not completely random in the sense originally postulated for statistical systems. These properties may require rethinking some of the fundamental assumptions of thermodynamics.

In Profile

Physics Today 52 (8), 46–47 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882778

Washington Reports

Physics Today 52 (8), 49–51 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882779
Physics Today 52 (8), 51–53 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802810
Physics Today 52 (8), 52–53 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882780

Physics Community

Physics Today 52 (8), 54–56 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882783
Physics Today 52 (8), 55 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882784
Physics Today 52 (8), 56 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882785
Physics Today 52 (8), 56–57 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882786
Physics Today 52 (8), 57 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802811
Physics Today 52 (8), 57–58 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882768
Physics Today 52 (8), 57 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882801
Physics Today 52 (8), 58 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802812

Books

Physics Today 52 (8), 61 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882787
Physics Today 52 (8), 61–62 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882788
Physics Today 52 (8), 62–64 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882789
Physics Today 52 (8), 64 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882790
Physics Today 52 (8), 64–65 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882791
Physics Today 52 (8), 65 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882792
Physics Today 52 (8), 66–69 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802813

New Products

Physics Today 52 (8), 71–73 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802814

We Hear That

Physics Today 52 (8), 75 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802815
Physics Today 52 (8), 75–76 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802816
Physics Today 52 (8), 76 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2802817
Physics Today 52 (8), 76–77 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2833578

Obituaries

Physics Today 52 (8), 77–78 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882793
Physics Today 52 (8), 78–79 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882794
Physics Today 52 (8), 79–81 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882795
Physics Today 52 (8), 81 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.882796
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