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The ‘Elegant’ Math Model That Could Help Rescue Coral Reefs
...starfish. The ocean was a home, but in school, Llabrés preferred physics and math. In Barcelona for college, she dove into the theoretical mysteries of black holes and quantum gravity....
How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories
...— lets them precisely predict the otherwise unknowable. And they have marveled at how those stars occasionally do align, allowing for perfect predictions of ice, protons, black holes and more....
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?
...that was just remarkable. STROGATZ: But, so, I think of you thinking more about, like, black holes, space time, astrophysical stuff, but why are you thinking about this? LEVIN: Because...
New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities
...— in proofs of important conjectures in geometry and topology, in the study of cells and black holes, and even in the design of biomolecules. “They’re very beautiful objects to...
What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean?
...of the universe’s origin and the interior of black holes. In the Standard Model of particle physics, described by a quantum field theory, direct calculations yield infinite results for energies...
How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
...active galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. On the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, the Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NET) has detected the highest-energy cosmic neutrino on record. Its source...
The Unraveling of Space-Time
This special issue of Quanta Magazine explores the ultimate scientific quest: the search for the fundamental nature of reality. Señor Salme for Quanta Magazine...
The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time
These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental. Back in 1981, Cameron Gordon introduced a new way to relate two knots — mathematical constructs modeled...