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Subhash Khot, Playing Unique Games in Washington Square Park
...and a special quantum theory describing particles on the bottle’s rigid surface, which seems to project the dynamic interior like a hologram. Maldacena’s discovery has enabled physicists to probe black...
Eva Silverstein’s Spirals and Strings
...down sensible equations about what might happen inside black holes or during the Big Bang. But string theory describes invisibly tiny details of reality — vibrating strings at the hearts...
Building Codes for Bacterial Cities
...had engineered a small plastic slab studded with holes, like the world’s tiniest slice of Swiss cheese, called a microfluidic chip. It was meant to resemble the porous environments, such...
Black-Hole Hunter Takes Aim at Einstein
...is a supermassive black hole, and that similar black holes lurk at the cores of nearly all other galaxies as well. And for those revelations, they give a lot of...
Joe Polchinski’s Restless Pursuit of Quantum Gravity
...a paradox about the nature of black holes. The “firewall argument,” as it’s called — developed with Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf and James Sully — “took form over three months...
Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs
...waves then interfere with each other in a bewildering number of ways. And, just as you can combine every color to get black, when you combine such a complicated mix...
For Astronomers, Neutron Star Merger Could Eclipse Eclipse
...it had detected gravitational waves from two colliding black holes. Four months later, while still in its first observing run, the team confirmed the detection of a second black hole...
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...
Moonshine Link Discovered for Pariah Symmetries
...symmetry groups to special classes of “weight 3/2” modular forms, objects that also show up in natural counting functions for black holes and for higher-dimensional generalizations of strings called “branes.”...