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A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge
...don’t fully capture the ocean’s physics.) “My mindset has certainly changed,” he said. A central insight of computer science is that, whenever a physical phenomenon is complex enough, it should...
‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem
...different to Kalai. It seemed connected to the famous Kadison-Singer problem, a question about the foundations of quantum physics that had remained unsolved for almost 50 years. Over the decades,...
A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption
...years. By exploiting the probabilistic rules of quantum physics, the devices could decrypt most of the world’s “secure” data, from NSA secrets to bank records to email passwords. Aware of...
Tiny Tests Seek the Universe’s Big Mysteries
...of exotic physics that could be visible at scales just below the thickness of a dollar bill — provided you build a clever-enough experiment, one small enough to fit on...
Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
...you know, like, a very sort of strong sense of being grounded in physics and foundations of physics and mathematics. And, so, I often come up with a diagram, like,...
‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
...mathematics and computer science. But he never forgot the pinball machine, and how computer science put limits on the machine’s physics. He wondered whether undecidability touched any physics problems that...
Isadore Singer Transcended Mathematical Boundaries
...well as those between mathematics and quantum physics. He pursued deep questions and inspired others in his original research, wide-ranging lectures, mentoring of young researchers and advocacy in the public...
Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
...foundations of most modern theories, including the celebrated Standard Model of particle physics. Physicists expect semiclassical physics to falter when gravity grows intense, as it does at the still-inscrutable center...
The S-Matrix Is the Oracle Physicists Turn To in Times of Crisis
...results. These infinities led Heisenberg to distrust the way quantum physics was depicting reality, and to expect that a revolutionary new theory would eventually overthrow particle physics and fix the...