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The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads
...in humanities, in philosophy, and in math. I realized that in cosmology, I could sort of combine my interests in philosophical questions, applying math to study what happens in the...
What Is a Particle?
...physical makeup — ultimately, its constituent particles. But those particles’ properties derive not from constituents of their own but from mathematical patterns. As points of contact between mathematics and reality,...
How Neutral Theory Altered Ideas About Biodiversity
...size, the larger the drift,” Johri said. Part of the appeal of neutral theory is that it’s mathematically straightforward. “A lot of the theory was easy,” Johri explained, since essentially...