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To Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics, Join Two Kinds of Law
...the phenomenally successful reductionist approach of the past centuries, John Wheeler, the influential Princeton University physicist whose work touched on topics from nuclear physics to black holes, expressed an interesting...
What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
...as water flowing through a hose, so much harder to understand mathematically than, say, Einstein’s field equations, which involve stupefying objects like black holes? The answer, I discovered, is turbulence....
On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity
...in astronomy? Well, so much new information was coming in. You saw the first evidence of the Big Bang, black holes, quasars. Think about this: I was only a first-year...
With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close In on an Explanation
...might also make FRBs when they crash into other objects like black holes or white dwarfs, when they themselves collapse into black holes, or when their magnetic field lines are...
The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
...a sharp pencil. “I’d poke holes for ones, and I’d cover up with Scotch tape the others,” she said. “He just got a kick out of it.” There were desks...
Did the Chicken Come First or Is It Turtles All the Way Down?
...further, speculating that inside black holes, universes may give rise to baby universes, each with slightly different laws and constants from its parent. These baby universes would persist longer if...
Robbert Dijkgraaf on Exploring Quantum Reality
...all these possible shapes, think of it as a large sculpture gallery where we have all these possibly beautifully curved spaces, of cosmologies or black holes or, you know, combinations...
The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View
...objects called blazars located behind voids. Blazars are bright beams of gamma rays and other energetic light and matter powered by supermassive black holes. As the gamma rays travel through...
The Hidden Structure of the Universe
...substance as pervasive as the pre-Einsteinian aether, and just as poorly understood. Physicists probing the paradoxes of black holes have grown convinced that there’s a fundamental connection between information and...