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What Is a Manifold?
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. Standing in the middle of a...
Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality
...a best-selling author of popular science books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, which has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide — placing him in a limelight he’s still...
Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things
...the book as an antidote to what he thought was an excessive tendency to explain everything in terms of Darwinian natural selection. His thesis — that physics, too, shapes us...
Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle
The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding. The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost...
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
...physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat flows spontaneously from hotter bodies to colder ones. But now, gently and almost casually, Alexssandre de Oliveira...
Analog vs. Digital: The Race Is On To Simulate Our Quantum Universe
...can solve the equations of physics only at those points, circumventing the impossible task of simulating a field’s true infinite resolution. But even with this approximation, classical computer simulations hit...
New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder
...hoping to turn the theories into theorems. Among them were Yau and his then-postdoc, Jun Yin. Yin joined Yau’s group in 2008, after finishing a Ph.D. in Princeton University’s physics...
‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party
...traveled from around the world to attend the opening reception of a six-day conference marking the centennial of the most successful theory in physics. The crowd included well-known pioneers of...
Why Did The Universe Begin?
...physics. And eventually, I met Stephen who happened to have a very, similar approach to physics. To me, Stephen was really someone who stuck to the scientific method, who stuck...