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A Fight for the Soul of Science
...interconnections,” as Dawid has termed them, in a paper read in Munich in his absence. String theory explains the entropy of black holes, for example, and, in a surprising discovery...
The Physical Origin of Universal Computing
...the evaporation of black holes. But even without a quantum theory of gravity, we can ask whether computers can efficiently simulate the best theories of modern physics — the Standard...
Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity
...waves, and when they merge, they form a black hole. We also think that there could be lots of medium-size black holes that do this dance and coalesce to form...
Theories of Everything, Mapped
...a single framework. In their day-to-day work, though, many physicists focus more on rooting out dark matter, solving the Standard Model’s hierarchy problem, and pondering the goings-on in black holes,...
Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists
...Lifshitz-Kosevich formula was presaged in 2010 by Sean Hartnoll and Diego Hofman, both then at Harvard University, in a paper that recast strongly correlated materials as higher-dimensional black holes, those...
The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox
...of toy models of highly idealized types of black holes with zero temperature. That means there is no Hawking radiation, and the black holes don’t evaporate, which is a critical...
A Private View of Quantum Reality
...space travel would be difficult because of the great distances between stars. How do you get around this? I learned about John Wheeler and black holes and wormholes, and that...
The Particle That Broke a Cosmic Speed Limit
...sensors in every direction, instead of painting a telltale pattern that could be matched to, say, the locations of supermassive black holes or colliding galaxies, they created confusion. “It’s hard...
Interactive: What Is Space?
...of space-time, overturning Isaac Newton’s classic theory and correctly predicting the existence of black holes and gravity’s ability to bend light. But a century later, the fundamental nature of space-time...