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The Strange Second Life of String Theory
...Theoretical Physics, has publicly argued that fundamental physics faces a crisis. And then physicists began to realize that the dream of one singular theory was an illusion. The complexities of...
The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
...quantum physics, which governs the world of elementary particles such as electrons and photons. Most researchers have no access to D-Wave’s proprietary system, so they can’t simply examine its specifications...
Moonshine Master Toys With String Theory
...“moonshine”) correspondence to its unlikely source: string theory, a candidate for the fundamental theory of physics that casts elementary particles as tiny oscillating strings. The j-function describes the strings’ oscillations...
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...
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...
Science’s Path From Myth to Multiverse
...Why did you focus on the history of physics and astronomy? Well, that’s what I know about; that’s where I have some competence. But there’s another reason: It’s in physics...
Janna Levin’s Theory of Doing Everything
...of her physics career. She has also studied the limits of knowledge, ideas that found their way into her award-winning novel about the mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel. Lately...
In Search of Dark Stars
...understand dark matter and her experiences as a woman in physics. “In my entire career I’ve always been aware of being a woman in physics,” she said. “Every room, every...
Quantum Questions Inspire New Math
...Study in Princeton, New Jersey. There is of course a long-standing and intimate relationship between mathematics and physics. Galileo famously wrote about a book of nature waiting to be decoded:...