New Scientist: Our elegant universe

The New Scientist feature, Our elegant universe: rethinking nature’s deepest principle, examines whether quantum entanglement could help explain why nature has the structure it does.

It highlights work by Jesse Thaler and me showing that minimising entanglement in electroweak scattering reproduces the observed small amount of quark flavour mixing, while favouring the more anarchic lepton-sector PMNS pattern with two large mixing angles and a smaller third angle. The article places this result in the broader conversation about symmetry, quantum information and the foundations of particle physics.