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Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.
...space-time continuum itself, as emergent from deeper, more microscopic physics. Carney’s line of thinking, known as entropic gravity, pegs that deeper physics as essentially just the physics of heat. It...
Does Form Really Shape Function?
...whose career has been devoted to using mathematics and physics to explore the form and function of common phenomena. Mahadevan, or Maha to his friends and colleagues, has long been...
Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time
...expertise to the realm of particles, he has now resolved a major open problem in mathematical physics. Zaher Hani studies solutions to equations that arise in oceanography, plasma physics and...
Will We Ever Prove String Theory?
...person get into theoretical physics? What’s drawn you to that subject? VAFA: My interest in theoretical physics started when I was a kid. I vividly remember my awe and amazement...
Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill
...relativity and quantum physics, singularities are proving hard to erase. The British mathematical physicist Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving in the 1960s that singularities would...
New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence
...around Normandy and across the English Channel into England. The aeronauts were unwittingly participating in an experiment that would alter the course of mathematical physics. Nearly two decades later, a...
How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?
...In terms of modern physics — by modern, I mean, post-20th century physics, as opposed to Newtonian physics — one of the key ideas is to break away from Euclidean...
Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences
...in certain fields of physics. A major drive in physics is to reduce the world to its fundamental rules and parts, but you’ve gone in a different direction. Why? We’re...
What Happens When AI Starts To Ask the Questions?
...and into other realms of physics, searching for insights and connections that people have missed. “There’s a space for all physics experiments, and at some random location there’s a fantastic...