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Introducing The Quanta Podcast
...advances in basic or fundamental science and math, from astrophysics and quantum computing, to molecular biology and classic unsolved math problems. Quanta’s been doing this for more than a decade...
The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI
...for the physics of these old systems.” In 2024, Hopfield and his fellow AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the statistical physics...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...