The idea of zero, originally called 𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑦𝑎 for “empty” in Sanskrit, first made its way out of India to the Arabic world. Then, in the 13th century, a humble traveler by the name of Fibonacci picked up the idea in North Africa and brought it back to medieval Europe. https://lnkd.in/ewWf5KQd
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In the years after its introduction, the elegance once promised by string theory warped into a hideous complexity. A new approach for confronting this problem has taken shape. Listen to this week's episode of Quanta Science Podcast: https://lnkd.in/eCH8xJ6S Or read the transcript: https://lnkd.in/exvyEgnB
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The statistician Stef van Buuren has helped develop techniques for analyzing incomplete data. “We cannot calculate with missing data, just as we can’t divide by zero.” https://lnkd.in/e6kCAteB
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A detailed list of every physical action you can perform on an object — be it a particle or the boundary of a black hole — provides a full picture of a quantum system, even when the universe it dwells in remains mysterious. This trick could help peel back the fabric of space-time to its origin point. https://lnkd.in/gHfwCkjz
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Cyanobacterial colonies pulse through a day-night cycle as a gene involved in the circadian clock cycles on and off. Biologists attached a bioluminescent reporter gene to the clock gene to visualize the rhythm of the cells’ circadian clocks. The brighter color indicates higher expression of the clock gene. https://lnkd.in/gdNC5EQf
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“I had always had this impression that to do computer science, you had to be a hacker and know everything about Linux. I realized that theoretical computer science was as fascinating as theoretical physics, and I said, ‘OK — this is what I want to do.’” https://lnkd.in/ekRG6JWV
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Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, a cornerstone of quantum theory, says it’s impossible to simultaneously measure a particle’s exact position and its speed. That means researchers need to make lots of measurements to understand a system. Quantum memory can help them do more with less. https://lnkd.in/eFW-Bug8
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For decades, Nima Arkani-Hamed has scoured the world of abstract mathematics to find new ways of doing physics. At some point, he took to doing this work with Twin Peaks playing in the background. “They’re trying to figure out a crazy, weird mystery with all sorts of insane characters, and so am I.” https://lnkd.in/g8Ekc4Tf
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If a 3D object like a black hole is best understood using only two dimensions, could the same be true for the entire universe? The holographic principle says that space-time is like a hologram “projected” from the information available on some lower-dimensional surface like the boundary of the universe. On the holographic stage, the fabric of our reality – space-time and gravity – actually emerges from a quantum description in a lower dimension. https://lnkd.in/ekGaKuPX