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A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the ...

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The philosopher Karen Crowther digs into how the space-time fabric could possibly emerge from something non-spatiotemporal.

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Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them. When Johnny Wheeler was 4 years old, ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple ...