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The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox
...identified three central concepts in physics that could not all simultaneously be true around the event horizon of a black hole. One must be abandoned to resolve this so-called firewall...
A Private View of Quantum Reality
...there is no law.” There’s no ultimate law of physics. All the laws of physics are mutable and that mutability itself is a principle of physics. He’d say, there’s no...
A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass
...gravity is hundreds of millions of trillions of trillions of times weaker than magnetism and the other microscopic forces of nature. This disparity shows up in physics equations as a...
The Particle That Broke a Cosmic Speed Limit
...window into the laws of physics at otherwise unreachable scales — maybe even connecting particle physics with the evolution of the cosmos as a whole. At the very least, they...
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time
New tools may reveal how quantum information builds the structure of space. Brian Swingle was a graduate student studying the physics of matter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when...
Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox
...Joe Polchinski, a researcher at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose own stunning paradox about firewalls in the throats of black holes...
Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
...some of the stuff I would later be teaching in my book. But still, this was just a hobby; at the time my academic interest was physics. I did physics...
For Persi Diaconis’ Next Magic Trick …
...smooshing will confer only inconsequentially tiny increments of additional randomness. The cutoff phenomenon, which occurs in a variety of situations in math and physics, owes its discovery to an earlier...
A Grand Theory of Wrinkles
...but they don’t provide much insight into the underlying physics. “There are these huge programs where they basically just put everything and the kitchen sink into it, and then yeah,...