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Adam Becker

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One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles

By Adam Becker
September 7, 2021
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For over two decades, physicists have pondered how the fabric of space-time may emerge from some kind of quantum entanglement. In Monika Schleier-Smith’s lab at Stanford University, the thought experiment is becoming real.

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Adam Becker is a freelance science journalist and author who has written for The New York Times, the BBC, NPR, Scientific American, New Scientist and many other publications. His book, What is Real?, about the sordid untold history of quantum physics, was longlisted for the 2018 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and shortlisted for the Physics World Book of the Year. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan, where he studied the way stuff was arranged in the early universe. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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