String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the strong nuclear force. Since then, it’s grown to become a theory of everything, capable of explaining the nature of every particle, ...

This photograph won honorable mention in the photography category of the sixth annual International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge in 2008. Over 21 countries were represented with ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...

Back on 2012, Paul Vo and Moog revealed a working prototype of a device that took control of acoustic string vibrations to provide a harmonic soundscape behind whatever the player was picking. After ...

AMOLF physicists have made mechanical vibrations on a chip behave as if they were electrical currents flowing in a magnetic field. Because of their charge, electrons are influenced by magnetic fields, ...

In this example we considered the free response of a fixed-fixed string to a set of initial conditions that resulted from pulling the string at its midpoint and releasing it from rest. We found that ...

In my last post, Artificial Intelligence and the Shape of Reality, I jumped off the deep end and explored an idea that surprised even me as I wrote it—that the high-dimensional space in which large ...