At a workshop held at IAS in March, Sebastian Mizera, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, "met with fellow S-matrix enthusiasts. Inspired by recent progress, they continue to seek more universal rules that govern all S-matrices. [...] They focus on observations, striving to discover truths that will endure even when the shape of future theories remains uncertain."
"Physicists have purportedly created the first-ever wormhole, a kind of tunnel theorized in 1935 by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen that leads from one place to another by passing into an extra dimension of space."
"As theorists study black holes and other objects in AdS space, they keep learning Wheeler-esque lessons. One is that the connectivity of space — the ability to get from one place to another — seems to stem from particles on the boundary linked by correlations known as quantum entanglement."
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:
“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...
Physicist Paul Halpern explores the role played by John Archibald Wheeler,
former Member in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences, in the
relationship between former Professor Albert Einstein and former Member Niels Bohr and their debates...
Frequent Director's Visitor Graham Farmelo reviews The
Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler
Revolutionized Time and Reality by physicist Paul Halpern. The
work, he writes, “confirms the received opinion that Feynman was
one of the...
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.
Confronted with a theoretical question, such as whether or not
gravitational waves exist, Richard Feynman never trusted
authorities. Rather, he tried to develop and convince himself of a
solution in the simplest way possible, constructing an...
