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QUANTUM GRAVITY: THE FINAL FRONTIER OF PHYSICS
Gravity is a special force. Unlike the other fundamental forces, it does not exist within a specific space-time; rather, gravity is the...
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Aug 207 min read


REACHING INFINITY IN A RAY OF LIGHT
"The infinity of the Universe is a great blessing for human beings, because human beings' desire for discovery is also infinite!" Mehmet...
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Aug 197 min read


THE NATURE OF TIME IN QUANTUM GRAVITY
On December 14, 1922, Albert Einstein gave a lecture at Kyoto University in which he stated: "The key that led me to formulate the theory...
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Aug 1810 min read


THE STRING-BLACK HOLE TRANSITION
Recently, at a fundamental physics conference, one of the fathers of string theory, the great physicist Leonard Susskind, was asked to...
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Aug 176 min read


STRING THEORY AND THE MICROSTATES OF BLACK HOLES
Currently, superstring theory (SST) is our best candidate for solving the biggest problem in fundamental physics: merging quantum...
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Aug 168 min read


RELATIVITY: PARADOXES, ILLUSIONS AND REALITY
The everyday world we observe around us is only a tiny fraction of the physical reality our Universe offers us. In fact, it seems...
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Aug 158 min read


ASIMILATING THE "PARADOX" OF TWINS
Many of the articles on this blog describe fundamental physics phenomena that may seem too abstract or complex for a general audience. In...
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Aug 1411 min read


TOWARDS NEW DISCOVERIES IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS (II)
Cosmological measurements of the expansion of the Universe and dark energy One of the most important and far-reaching cosmological...
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Aug 136 min read


THE INFORMATION PARADOX IN AN: TOWARDS A FUNDAMENTAL DESCRIPTION OF SPACE-TIME (II)
In the previous article, we saw how entanglement entropy (EE) measures the number of entangled microstates (qubits) between two systems....
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Aug 128 min read


THE INFORMATION PARADOX IN AN: TOWARDS A FUNDAMENTAL DESCRIPTION OF SPACE-TIME (I)
In recent years, a series of theoretical studies have appeared that include very important advances toward resolving one of the deepest...
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Aug 115 min read


THE QUANTUM VACUUM AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSE
Modern physics is replete with physical and mathematical concepts and phenomena so alien to our everyday experience that they seem to...
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Aug 106 min read


THE MOST EXOTIC PHENOMENA OF QUANTUM FIELDS
In addition to the best-known and most studied phenomena, the Standard Model of particle physics includes some rather more "exotic" and...
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Aug 96 min read


GEOMETRY, GRAVITY AND GAUGE SYMMETRIES
In the previous article, we saw how practically everything we know about particle physics and fundamental forces revolves around the...
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Aug 86 min read


GAUGE SYMMETRIES: BETWEEN THE REAL WORLD AND THE MATHEMATICAL WORLD
Although most people are not fully aware of it, there is a truly amazing world out there. At a fundamental level, the Universe is...
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Aug 78 min read


EXPLORING NEW SCALES OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS
The Universe we inhabit is full of fascinating and "exotic" objects and phenomena. Some, such as black holes and quantum entanglement,...
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Aug 65 min read


MAGNETIC MONOPOLES AND MATHEMATICAL REALITY
In 1931, the great physicist Paul Dirac published an article that would have a huge impact on the scientific community. On the one hand,...
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Aug 55 min read


MULTIVERSE: SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION?
Many people consider the concept of the Multiverse to be exotic and far from reality. The original Big Bang model probably has a lot to...
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Aug 46 min read


THE WAVE FUNCTION OF THE UNIVERSE
Until very recently, fundamental questions such as the creation of the Universe or the ultimate nature of space and time belonged to the...
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Aug 37 min read


TOWARDS THE TRUE NATURE OF TIME
Time is undoubtedly the strangest and most intriguing of physical quantities. While spatial variables can, in principle, take any value,...
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Aug 25 min read


TIME TRAVEL: FICTION OR REALITY (II)
In the first part we saw that, theoretically, a hypothetical superluminal tachyon would allow information to be sent to the past, which...
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Aug 14 min read
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