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Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars
...on to become one of the first women to earn a doctorate in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology. While she was there, she befriended Richard Feynman, who paid...
Why an Old Theory of Everything Is Gaining New Life
...description — the Standard Model of particle physics — constitutes physicists’ best current explanation for everything. It’s neat and it’s simple, but no one is entirely happy with it. What...
Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang
...Jerome Quintin of the University of Waterloo. The trio recently published a paper in the Journal of High Energy Physics in which, Ling said, “we mathematically showed that there might...
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness
...Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Russia, and Alexei Kitaev of the California Institute of Technology worked out two schemes for pulling off any quantum calculation: You could include T...
Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation
...density approaches infinity and known physics goes off the rails. In the 100-plus years since, physicists and mathematicians have explored the properties of these enigmatic objects from the perspective of...
How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code
...conjectured in the Journal of High Energy Physics that space-time itself is a code — in anti-de Sitter (AdS) universes, at least. The paper has triggered a wave of activity...
New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot
...weigh more than 10 solar masses. Earlier this year, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics used Field and Khanna’s surrogate model to look through LIGO data for...
Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality
...predict the outcome of a famous quantum physics experiment known as the Bell test. The new research, which was posted on the scientific preprint server arxiv.org in January, finds that...
Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter
...come back to life. In one of the latest, published last week in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Karsten Jedamzik, a cosmologist at the University of Montpellier, showed...