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...
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...
Recent findings on traversable wormholes by physicists including
former Members Daniel
Jafferis and Aron Wall
inspired by the ER = EPR conjecture posed by Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and Leonard...
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, has joined
world-leading writers and thinkers to launch the third series of
Hay Levels masterclasses, an inspiring, free series of educational
videos from the Hay Literary Festival in which...
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...
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...
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...
Mathematics might be more of an environmental science than we realize. Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, explores the possibility of developing a new realm of mathematics in order to fully understand the quantum world.
