“Paleontologists infer the existence of dinosaurs to give a
rational accounting of strange patterns of bones,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist and
cosmologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey. “We look at patterns in...
"The world has all kinds of long-term problems, some of which
might seem impossible to solve. So it’s important to have a group
of people who, over centuries, give a concrete template for how to
go about grappling with and ultimately conquering...
Writing for Nautilus,George Musser, Director's Visitor and
Scientific American contributing editor, highlights
current work by Andrew
Strominger, Member (1982–1987) in the School of Natural
Sciences. Strominger and colleagues are investigating how...
Writing for the New Yorker, Director's Visitor (2017)
Natalie Wolchover
discusses the puzzles and paradoxes of contemporary science that
point to "the need to reformulate the theories of modern physics in
a new mathematical language," highlighting...
Nima Arkani-Hamed,
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, delivered the public
lecture “The End of Spacetime” at SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA, on June 19.
Watch Arkani-Hamed discuss the union of quantum mechanics
and...
Everything that humans have seen up until now exists in the
4.9 per cent of the universe that interacts
with light. The rest is hidden from view. Most of it, physicists
believe—68.3 per cent—is dark energy, an enigmatic force that
drives the...
The 2017 Prospects in Theoretical Physics program will celebrate
its sixteenth year by convening more than 130 graduate students and
postdoctoral scholars from around the world at the Institute for
Advanced Study from July 17 to 28 to explore...
“What is space and time really? Why is the universe really big?”
Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed
asks. “And on top of that, we don’t understand why there are big
things in it.”
Part of a family that zigzagged the globe in pursuit, and
defense, of science...