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Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works
...directly on the deepest physical secrets of reality. “[Mathematicians] will do things that we can’t even imagine,” said Davide Gaiotto, a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
...there is one intellectual structure that covers all of it, and maybe it will encompass all of physics,” said Seiberg. Now mathematicians just have to uncover it. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
Cosmic Map of Ultrahigh-Energy Particles Points to Long-Hidden Treasures
...and click the numbers to reveal individual objects. Daniel Chang for Quanta Magazine Nicolás Leal / Pierre Auger Collaboration Design by Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; source: Daniel Pomarède & Yehuda Hoffman,...
Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture
...weird and wonderful.” A model showing the crystallographic group and 21 group elements from which a counterexample disproving the unit conjecture has been discovered. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; source: Giles Gardam...
Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem
...to the KLS bound in 2016. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Courtesy of Yuansi Chen Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine Courtesy of University of Washington; Courtesy of the College of Computing...
Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter
...sea of particles pops in and out of existence. The nuclear physicist Paul Reimer (left) amid SeaQuest, an experiment at Fermilab assembled mostly out of used parts. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries
...line tracks changes in the slope of the spectrum, which relate to the patient’s state of wakefulness. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; noise generated by Thomas Donoghue Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine; source: Thomas...
Tetrahedron Solutions Finally Proved Decades After Computer Search
...of tetrahedra with rational dihedral angles. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; tetrahedra generated by Martin H. Weissman, based on data by Kiran S. Kedlaya et al. Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine...
Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows
...hills and craters, which implies that they must be younger than other features. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; textures: James Hastings-Trew Quanta Magazine; source: NASA/JPL-Caltech ESA...