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...
Professor Nathan Seiberg sat down with Sandhya Ramesh at an
event organised by the International Centre for Theoretical
Sciences for an interview for the Wire to discuss string
theory, experimental evidence, quantum field theory, and more.
“When you have dualities, things that are easy to see in one
description can be hard to see in the other description. So you and
I, for example, are fairly simple to describe in the usual approach
to physics as developed by Newton and his successors...
Reductionism breaks the world into elementary building blocks. Emergence finds the simple laws that arise out of complexity. Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, explores how these two complementary ways of viewing the universe come together in modern theories of quantum gravity.
In 2007, Professor Emeritus Stephen
Adler predicted that the level of jitter from wave function
collapse would be large enough to spot. The results of a new
experiment are consistent with this prediction, possibly providing
hints about how the wave...
The mathematics section of the National Academy of Sciences
lists 104 members. Just four are women. As recently as June, that
number was six. Marina Ratner and Maryam Mirzakhani could not have
been more different, in personality and in background....
Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings,
far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta
Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most
accomplished scientists and mathematicians, including Eva Silverstein, former...
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute
Director and Leon Levy Professor, discusses the complex
relationship between mathematics and physics with Brady Haran of
Numberphile during the 2017 National Math Festival in Washington,
D.C. Dijkgraaf examines the...
Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings,
far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta
Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most
accomplished scientists and mathematicians, including Juan Maldacena, Carl P...
The conflict between the two halves of physics has been brewing
for more than a century—sparked by a pair of 1905 papers by
Einstein, one outlining relativity
and the other introducing the quantum—but recently it has entered
an intriguing...
