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The Joy of Why

How Will the Universe End?

By Steven Strogatz
February 22, 2023
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Big Freeze, Big Rip, Big Crunch, Bounce or vacuum decay? Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack about the five ways that scientists think the universe could come to an end.

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explainers

How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities

By Charlie Wood
February 6, 2023
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Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.

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She Turns Fluids Into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’

By Thomas Lewton
December 12, 2022
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By using fluids to model inaccessible realms of the cosmos, Silke Weinfurtner is “looking for a deeper truth beyond one system.” But what can such experiments teach us?

quantum gravity

Black Hole's Orbiting Ring of Light Could Encrypt Its Inner Secrets

By Thomas Lewton
September 8, 2022
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Physicists have discovered that the ring of photons orbiting a black hole exhibits a special kind of symmetry, hinting at a deeper meaning.

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general relativity

Mass and Angular Momentum, Left Ambiguous by Einstein, Get Defined

By Steve Nadis
July 13, 2022
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Surprising as it may sound, 107 years after the introduction of general relativity, the meanings of basic concepts are still being worked out.

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The Joy of Why

Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?

By Steven Strogatz
May 4, 2022
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Einstein’s description of curved space-time doesn’t easily mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses the quest for quantum gravity with host Steven Strogatz.

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quantum physics

Massive Black Holes Shown to Act Like Quantum Particles

By Charlie Wood
March 29, 2022
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Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave.

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In Search of Cracks in Albert Einstein’s Theory of Gravity

By Thomas Lewton
February 23, 2022
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Celia Escamilla-Rivera is combining large data sets with supercomputers to test general relativity against its little-known competitors.

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quantum gravity

How Gravity Is a Double Copy of Other Forces

By Charlie Wood
May 4, 2021
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An enigmatic connection between the forces of nature is allowing physicists to explore gravity’s quantum side.


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