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Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?
...Why,” a podcast from Quanta Magazine where I take turns at the mic with my cohost, Janna Levin, exploring the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this...
Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
...method, despite seeming like a mere mathematical convenience at the time, loosened the straitjacket of Newton’s mechanistic view of the universe as a sequence of falling dominos. Two centuries later,...
John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality
...mathematicians resort to a less stringent concept called concordance. Concordance involves situating your three-dimensional knot in four-dimensional space. When mathematicians add an extra dimension, new ways of contorting knots suddenly...
The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time
...how complicated they are. This winter, Ian Agol, a mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, posted a six-page paper that proved Gordon’s conjecture, giving mathematicians a new way to...
Debate May Help AI Models Converge on Truth
...on college-level math and science topics. Some of the questions involved images and text. Across all tasks and experimental setups, debate always led to more accuracy. That was encouraging, and...
How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?
...the mic with my cohost, Janna Levin, exploring some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we ask cellular biologist Shai Shaham, how can...
The Year in Physics
...on the math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this might be...
The Year in Biology
...math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this might be relevant to...
The Year in Computer Science
...recently posted on the math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this...