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Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind
...theorem turned out to be important in physics? Oh, yes. I did all this geometry not having any notion that it would be linked to physics. It was a big...
After Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash
...the same black-hole merger that produced the gravitational waves observed by LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory). The correlation, which is far from certain, would upend entrenched assumptions in physics....
The Quantum Secret to Superconductivity
...Philip Anderson, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the founders of condensed-matter physics, advanced in the 1980s. Sachdev posits a kind of order in cuprates that isn’t seen in...
Gravitational Waves Discovered at Long Last
...make waves in space-time. Rainer Weiss, a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, around 1970. Still, Einstein and his colleagues continued to waffle. Some physicists argued that...
Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
...machines in the same way we understand the physics of explosives.” We haven’t solved every problem we face regarding biological behavior because we have yet to identify the actual, specific...
New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
...beyond neuroscience and reaches into physics. Physicists consider space-time as a cohesive, four-dimensional entity, a fabric upon which the objects and events of the universe are embedded. “Neuroscience must converge...
Taming Superconductors With String Theory
...is taking the “everything” literally. He’s applying the mathematics of string theory to a major problem at the other end of physics — the behavior of a potentially revolutionary class...
Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time
...about quantum physics that goes beyond classical physics to endow particles with this supermemory? Researchers have differing opinions. Some say the key is that quantum measurements inevitably disturb a particle....
String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity
...all known particles have yet-undiscovered partners. Supersymmetry isn’t a feature of LQG. These and other differences have split the theoretical physics community into deeply divergent camps. “Conferences have segregated,” said...