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The End of Theoretical Physics as We Know It

By Sabine Hossenfelder
August 27, 2018
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Computer simulations and custom-built quantum analogues are changing what it means to search for the laws of nature.

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How Network Math Can Help You Make Friends

By Patrick Honner
August 20, 2018
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Studying the structure of existing friendships in your community can help you forge the best connections when forming a new circle of friends.

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Four Is Not Enough

By Patrick Honner
June 18, 2018
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How many colors do you need to color an infinite plane so that no points 1 unit apart are the same color?

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There Are No Laws of Physics. There’s Only the Landscape.

By Robbert Dijkgraaf
June 4, 2018
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Scientists seek a single description of reality. But modern physics allows for many different descriptions, many equivalent to one another, connected through a vast landscape of mathematical possibility.

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Why Winning in Rock-Paper-Scissors (and in Life) Isn’t Everything

By Patrick Honner
April 2, 2018
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What does John Nash’s game theory equilibrium concept look like in Rock-Paper-Scissors?

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Black Hole Echoes Would Reveal Break With Einstein’s Theory

By Sabine Hossenfelder
March 22, 2018
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Gravitational waves have opened up new ways to test the properties of black holes — and Einstein’s theory of gravity along with them.

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Physicists Mourn Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes

By Eva Silverstein
February 20, 2018
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The theoretical physicist Joe Polchinski, who died February 2, left a tremendous professional and personal legacy, says a friend and collaborator.

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How Math (and Vaccines) Keep You Safe From the Flu

By Patrick Honner
February 5, 2018
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Simple math shows how widespread vaccination can disrupt the exponential spread of disease and prevent epidemics.

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Why an Old Theory of Everything Is Gaining New Life

By Sabine Hossenfelder
January 8, 2018
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For decades, physicists have struggled to create a quantum theory of gravity. Now an approach that dates to the 1970s is attracting newfound attention.


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