The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity
The world of Bousso’s new theorem still departs from our universe in notable ways. For…
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A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory
Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much…
New theory could finally make ‘quantum gravity’ a reality — and prove Einstein wrong
Physicists have developed a novel approach to solving one of the most persistent problems in…
Why Pigeons at Rest Are at the Center of Complexity Theory
By January 2020, Papadimitriou had been thinking about the pigeonhole principle for 30 years. So…
A Math Couple Solves a Major Group Theory Problem—After 20 Years of Work
But one of Malle’s graduate students was on the case. Britta Späth.“Our Obsession”In 2003, Späth…
Can we use quantum computers to test a radical consciousness theory?
The suggestion that consciousness has its origins in quantum weirdness has long been viewed as…
Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy
Quantum theory is poking holes in our understanding of entropyVICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Measuring…
The mathematical theory that made the internet possible
The internet could not exist without information theoryMehmet BAYSAN / Alamy The following is an…
Einstein’s theory was wrong about black holes made out of light
Light cannot condense enough to create a black holeVadim Sadovski/Shutterstock It seems it is not…
How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable
Posing a far greater challenge for AI researchers was the game of Diplomacy—a favorite of…