Multimedia – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:18:44 -0500 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thought-experiments-that-fray-the-fabric-of-space-time-20240925/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thought-experiments-that-fray-the-fabric-of-space-time-20240925/#respond Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:02:50 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=141609 The post The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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]]> The principles of thermodynamics are cornerstones of our understanding of physics. But they were discovered in the era of steam-driven technology, long before anyone dreamed of quantum mechanics. In this episode, the theoretical physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern talks to host Steven Strogatz about how physicists today are reinterpreting concepts such as work, energy and information for a quantum…

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]]> Observations of the cosmos suggest that unseen sources of gravity — dark matter — tug at the stars in galaxies, while another mysterious force — dark energy — drives the universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate. The evidence for both of them, however, hinges on assumptions that gravity works the same way at all scales. What if that’s not true? In this episode, theoretical physicist Claudia de…

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]]> Within just a few years, artificial intelligence systems that sometimes seem to display almost human characteristics have gone from science fiction to apps on your phone. But there’s another AI-influenced frontier that is developing rapidly and remains untamed: robotics. Can the technologies that have helped computers get smarter now bring similar improvements to the robots that will work…

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