amplituhedron – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematicians-adventure-through-the-physical-world-20201216/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematicians-adventure-through-the-physical-world-20201216/#respond Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:37:12 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=97584 The post A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> The outline of Lauren Williams’ mathematical career was present very early on in her life. “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always loved patterns,” said Williams. “I enjoyed being given a sequence of numbers and having to find the pattern and predict the next number.” But while many kids are enchanted by patterns, few end up following them as far, or to such unexpected places, as Williams has.

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]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematicians-adventure-through-the-physical-world-20201216/feed/ 0 Visions of Future Physics https://www.quantamagazine.org/nima-arkani-hamed-and-the-future-of-physics-20150922/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/nima-arkani-hamed-and-the-future-of-physics-20150922/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:08:04 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=18636 The post Visions of Future Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Get Nima Arkani-Hamed going on the subject of the universe — not difficult — and he’ll talk for as many minutes or hours as it takes to transport you to the edge of human understanding, and then he’ll talk you past the edge, beyond Einstein, beyond space-time and quantum mechanics and all those tired tropes of 20th-century physics, to a spectacular new vision of how everything works.

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]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/nima-arkani-hamed-and-the-future-of-physics-20150922/feed/ 28 A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-underlying-particle-physics-20130917/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-underlying-particle-physics-20130917/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:10:25 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=6315 The post A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality. “This is completely new and very much simpler than anything that has been done before,” said Andrew Hodges, a mathematical physicist at Oxford University who has been following the work.

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