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It may sound like the outlandish plot of a poorly conceived science-fiction flick. But some scientists now claim that humanity, the Earth, and everything else in the universe are really part of a ...

LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- Exactly 100 years ago, famed Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (yes, the cat guy) postulated his eponymous equation that explains how particles in quantum physics behave. A key ...

That was Gerard ‘t Hooft, the Nobel Prize winner, one of the great physicists of 20th century. The holographic principle, that was the thing that ‘t Hooft and I put forward. It came from Bekenstein’s ...

Is our 3-D universe is just the inward projection of an infinitely distant boundary? Space seems fundamental. Many physicists now think that the fabric of space emerges from something deeper. And the ...

You can skip the the 45 min mark since that's where he talks about it but I saw this come across me feed and from the sound of it he's saying that the distortion at the edges of a black hole imply the ...

Quantum gravity represents the ambitious quest to reconcile the principles of quantum mechanics with general relativity, aiming to produce a unified theoretical framework that can describe the ...

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