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How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
...approach to argue that information leaks out of dying black holes. This “seems to be the richer point of view to take,” said Simon Ross, a quantum gravity theorist at...
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time
...named Jacob Bekenstein showed that the information about a black hole’s interior is encoded in its two-dimensional surface area (the “boundary”) rather than within its three-dimensional volume (the “bulk”). Twenty...
Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter
...“It was really exceptional.” The explosion was a long gamma-ray burst, a cosmic event where a massive dying star unleashes powerful jets of energy as it collapses into a black...
Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid
...field with two colliding black holes and you’ll create gravitational waves. Likewise, if you poke a superfluid, you’ll produce phonons — sound waves in the superfluid itself. These phonons give...
Eva Silverstein’s Spirals and Strings
...down sensible equations about what might happen inside black holes or during the Big Bang. But string theory describes invisibly tiny details of reality — vibrating strings at the hearts...
To Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics, Join Two Kinds of Law
...the phenomenally successful reductionist approach of the past centuries, John Wheeler, the influential Princeton University physicist whose work touched on topics from nuclear physics to black holes, expressed an interesting...
What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
...as water flowing through a hose, so much harder to understand mathematically than, say, Einstein’s field equations, which involve stupefying objects like black holes? The answer, I discovered, is turbulence....
On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity
...in astronomy? Well, so much new information was coming in. You saw the first evidence of the Big Bang, black holes, quasars. Think about this: I was only a first-year...
With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close In on an Explanation
...might also make FRBs when they crash into other objects like black holes or white dwarfs, when they themselves collapse into black holes, or when their magnetic field lines are...