"My goal is that by understanding the interior of the black hole
we understand the universe to be like a cosmology: because the
interior of the black hole is like a collapsing universe and by
understanding that, we can perhaps be able to understand...
Scientific American's John Horgan profiles John Archibald Wheeler, a
leading theoretical physicist of the twentieth century and former
Member in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences, writing:
Jeremy Bernstein,
Member in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences from
1957–1959, gives a personal account of his time at the Institute,
third IAS Director J. Robert
Oppenheimer, whom he calls a "man of fashion in physics," and
the field of...
Philip Perry of Big Think asks, "What's our position in the
universe?" Referencing the work of Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and former Members in
the School Daniel Louis
Jafferis, Leonard
Susskind...
Juan
Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of
Natural Sciences, and Member Douglas Stanford will
give the public lecture “The Cool Alter-Ego of a Black
Hole,” on Friday, May 4, which will take
place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn
Hall on...
Clifford V. Johnson,
former Member in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses string
theory, black holes, and his new graphic novel The
Dialogues with physicist Janna Levin and Ira Flatow of NPR's
Science
Friday. In The Dialogues: Conversations...
Recent findings on traversable wormholes by physicists including
former Members Daniel
Jafferis and Aron Wall
inspired by the ER = EPR conjecture posed by Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and Leonard...
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, has joined
world-leading writers and thinkers to launch the third series of
Hay Levels masterclasses, an inspiring, free series of educational
videos from the Hay Literary Festival in which...
Much remains uncertain about how black holes reach supermassive
girth and influence the universe around them. As such, astronomers
want to analyze intermediate-mass black holes of about 100 to
10,000 solar masses that they expect would serve as the...
For the third time in less than two years, physicists have
detected billion-year-old ripples in the fabric of space-time. The
new recording, like the two others before it, was made using the
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)...