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In a Numerical Coincidence, Some See Evidence for String Theory

By Natalie Wolchover
January 21, 2022
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In a quest to map out a quantum theory of gravity, researchers have used logical rules to calculate how much Einstein’s theory must change. The result matches string theory perfectly.

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Symmetries Reveal Clues About the Holographic Universe

By Katie McCormick
January 12, 2022
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Physicists have been busy exploring how our universe might emerge like a hologram out of a two-dimensional sheet. New clues have come from the symmetries found on an infinitely distant “celestial sphere.”

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An Ultra-Precise Clock Links the Quantum World With Gravity

By Katie McCormick
October 25, 2021
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Time was found to flow differently between the top and bottom of a single cloud of atoms. Physicists hope that such a system will one day help them combine quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of gravity.

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One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles

By Adam Becker
September 7, 2021
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For over two decades, physicists have pondered how the fabric of space-time may emerge from some kind of quantum entanglement. In Monika Schleier-Smith’s lab at Stanford University, the thought experiment is becoming real.

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This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

By Natalie Wolchover
August 23, 2021
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The five-decade-old paradox — long thought key to linking quantum theory with Einstein’s theory of gravity — is falling to a new generation of thinkers. Netta Engelhardt is leading the way.

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How Big Can the Quantum World Be? Physicists Probe the Limits.

By Philip Ball
August 18, 2021
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By showing that even large objects can exhibit bizarre quantum behaviors, physicists hope to illuminate the mystery of quantum collapse, identify the quantum nature of gravity, and perhaps even make Schrödinger’s cat a reality.

Math Meets QFT

A Video Tour of the Standard Model

By Kevin Hartnett
July 16, 2021
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The Standard Model is a sweeping equation that has correctly predicted the results of virtually every experiment ever conducted, as Quanta explores in a new video.

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Nathan Seiberg on How Math Might Complete the Ultimate Physics Theory

By Kevin Hartnett
June 24, 2021
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Even in an incomplete state, quantum field theory is the most successful physical theory ever discovered. Nathan Seiberg, one of its leading architects, talks about the gaps in QFT and how mathematicians could fill them.

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Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works

By Charlie Wood
June 17, 2021
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In three towering papers, a team of mathematicians has worked out the details of Liouville quantum field theory, a two-dimensional model of quantum gravity.


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