A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic ...
Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all ...
A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the ...
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In one perspective, physicists see a two-dimensional universe that is flat. In an equivalent, “dual” view, they see what they ...
The philosopher Karen Crowther digs into how the space-time fabric could possibly emerge from something non-spatiotemporal.
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Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple ...
Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.