https://strifinopoulos.github.io/tag/outreach/OutreachHugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)en-usMon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://strifinopoulos.github.io/media/icon_hu05b95afa13ed6775cdbedc86a50e7361_155430_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_3.pnghttps://strifinopoulos.github.io/tag/outreach/https://strifinopoulos.github.io/post/new-scientist-elegant-universe/Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://strifinopoulos.github.io/post/new-scientist-elegant-universe/<p>The <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2509985-our-elegant-universe-rethinking-natures-deepest-principle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Scientist feature, <em>Our elegant universe: rethinking nature&rsquo;s deepest principle</em></a>, examines whether quantum entanglement could help explain why nature has the structure it does.</p> <p>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.</p>