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How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
...as seen from the inside. Quanta Magazine spoke with Smolin about his approach to cosmology and quantum mechanics, which he details in his recent book, Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution. The interview...
Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures
...with images that had been “painted” with irrelevant textures. The systems’ performance improved, a result that may hold clues about the evolution of our own vision. Courtesy of Robert Geirhos...
Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
...classical physics — position and speed, say — are selected from a menu of quantum possibilities in a process loosely analogous to natural selection in evolution: The properties that survive...
Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
...evolution gets close to the breakup point, the theoretical objects might even have something interesting to say about quantum gravity itself, Pretorius suggests. Beyond theoretical black strings, the universe is...
To Make Two Black Holes Collide, Try Three
...because of a triple-system process. If a black hole binary system formed through the evolution of two stars without the influence of other bodies, they should be rotating and orbiting...
Soil’s Microbial Market Shows the Ruthless Side of Forests
...evolution lab at the University of Minnesota. Along with Stuart West, an evolutionary theorist at the University of Oxford whom Kiers had met in Panama, she and Denison modeled the...
A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision
...successful history of modeling changing phenomena, from the movement of billiard balls to the evolution of space-time. These are examples of “dynamical systems” — systems that evolve over time according...
Origin-of-Life Study Points to Chemical Chimeras, Not RNA
...work, published today in Nature Chemistry, highlights just how essential a diverse, complex blend of ingredients may have been to life’s earliest evolution. Bring On the Hybrid Monsters The narrative...
Nobel Awarded for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Portable Power
...and Whittingham. “It’s the lithium-ion battery that’s really underpinned the whole portable electronics revolution and is also making increased reduction of CO2 possible,” she added. “Over two-thirds of the world’s...