The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that space-time exists is no more ...

Curious connections between physics and math suggest to Latham Boyle that space-time may survive the jump to the next theory of reality. A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists ...

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