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Multiple teams of physicists identified how a quantum property known as “magic” makes space-time’s fabric bendy. Charles Cao, one of the researchers, calls it “the fabric softener of space.”
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity. | Quanta Magazine
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Hyperbolic surfaces are impossible to imagine, but aspects of their geometry are still mathematically accessible. To study these mysterious shapes, mathematicians measure how connected they are. Here’s what that means: quantamagazine.org/years-after-th…
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Neuroscientist Earl Miller said that he and his collaborator Lisa Barrett Feldman are “cut from the same cloth.” “Both of us, we are not afraid to say things that run counter to the standard way of looking at things,” Miller said. The result was an updated view on
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The more possible futures an object has, the bigger its Hilbert space. A quantum coin has a two-dimensional Hilbert space (heads or tails), while a quantum cat free to inhabit any location would live in an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. quantamagazine.org/in-hilbert-spa…
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The theoretical side of computer science doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. Read our latest Qualia column:
Does Computer Science Need Computers? | Quanta Magazine
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