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Art for "How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code"
space-time

How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

By Natalie Wolchover
January 3, 2019
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The same codes needed to thwart errors in quantum computers may also give the fabric of space-time its intrinsic robustness.

Abstractions blog

Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever

By Natalie Wolchover
December 6, 2018
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The renowned physicist Leonard Susskind has identified a possible quantum origin for the ever-growing volume of black holes.

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Abstractions blog

Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn

By Charlie Wood
August 22, 2018
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String theorists elide a paradox about black holes by extinguishing the walls of fire feared to surround them.

Photo of Stephen Hawking in 1979 in Princeton, New Jersey.
Abstractions blog

Why Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Puzzle Keeps Puzzling

By Jennifer Ouellette
March 14, 2018
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The renowned British physicist, who died at 76, left behind a riddle that could eventually lead his successors to the theory of quantum gravity.

A wormhole split in two with swirls of blue on one side and swirls of pink on the other with a ringed planet in the background.
theoretical physics

Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes

By Natalie Wolchover
October 23, 2017
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Physicists theorize that a new “traversable” kind of wormhole could resolve a baffling paradox and rescue information that falls into black holes.

quantum gravity

What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones

By Natalie Wolchover
November 8, 2016
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Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it a red herring?

Q&A

Moonshine Master Toys With String Theory

By Natalie Wolchover
August 4, 2016
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The physicist-mathematician Miranda Cheng is working to harness a mysterious connection between string theory, algebra and number theory.

Physics

String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity

By Sabine Hossenfelder
January 12, 2016
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Two leading candidates for a “theory of everything,” long thought to be incompatible, may be two sides of the same coin.

Physics

The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox

By Jennifer Ouellette
June 23, 2015
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By replacing black holes with fuzzballs — dense, star-like objects from string theory — researchers think they can avoid some knotty paradoxes at the edge of physics.


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