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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

By Charlie Wood
August 9, 2022
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The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum.

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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws

By Natalie Wolchover
March 1, 2022
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Physicists are reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.

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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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Hidden Structure

What Is a Particle?

By Natalie Wolchover
November 12, 2020
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It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more than it is changing now.

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Hidden Structure

The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End

By George Musser
October 29, 2020
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In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information.

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Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings From the Big Bang

By Thomas Lewton
September 29, 2020
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Subtle aberrations in the clockwork blinking of stars could become “the result of the century.” That’s if the distortions are produced by a network of giant filaments left over from the birth of the universe.

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The Map of Mathematics

By Kevin Hartnett
February 13, 2020
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Explore our surprisingly simple, absurdly ambitious and necessarily incomplete guide to the boundless mathematical universe.

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The Double Life of Black Holes

By Sabine Hossenfelder
January 29, 2019
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Perfect black holes are versatile mathematical tools. Just don’t mistake them for the real thing.

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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.


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