The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The conspiracy, Figueiredo and her colleagues realized, stems from the existence of a hidden structure, one that could potentially simplify the complex business of understanding what’s going on at the base level of reality. Arkani-Hamed therefore suspects that the usual notion of quantum particles moving and interacting in space-time is …
Human beings may have scientifically advanced on Earth, but when it comes to space, there are a lot of things that we still need to know. A recent discovery by a team of astronomers concerns a strange object that can exist around a pair of black holes. The research – submitted in September this year by scientists from the University …
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