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To Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics, Join Two Kinds of Law

By Robbert Dijkgraaf
September 7, 2017
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Reductionism breaks the world into elementary building blocks. Emergence finds the simple laws that arise out of complexity. These two complementary ways of viewing the universe come together in modern theories of quantum gravity.

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‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence

By Natalie Wolchover
March 8, 2017
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Computational physicist Sharon Glotzer is uncovering the rules by which complex collective phenomena emerge from simple building blocks.


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