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John Urschel: From NFL Player to Mathematician
...you the secret handshake later. Urschel: Okay, perfect, perfect. Strogatz: [LAUGHS] [MUSIC PLAYING] Next time on the Joy of x, cosmologist Janna Levin and I wax poetic about black holes....
Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise
...from stars more than 20 times the mass of our sun collapsing into black holes and exploding as supernovas. The latter, which last only up to about a second, are...
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness
...on phases of quantum matter and the destructive nature of black holes. For these reasons, both physicists and computer scientists have endeavored to map out the exact topography of this...
It Might Be Possible To Detect Gravitons After All
...(LIGO) to first sense a rumble in space-time in 2015 — one sent out by a collision between distant black holes. Detecting a single graviton would be harder still, akin...
A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age
...spoke with Yuen about where complexity theory falls short, what quantum cryptography has to do with black holes, and the importance of open-ended research. The interview has been condensed and...
How Holography Could Help Solve Quantum Gravity
...black holes and the Big Bang, where extreme gravity operates at tiny scales. We hope you enjoyed this second episode from season two of Quanta’s In Theory video series. Season...
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...
‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
...know if they could drive that number down. By the mid-1970s, Roger Penrose (who would go on to win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on black holes)...
What Can Tiling Patterns Teach Us?
...had someone do one of those lightbox diffraction experiments where you poke holes in the paper. And so he had them go on a Penrose tiling and poke holes in...