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Important aspects of the correspondence were elaborated in articles by steven gubser, igor klebanov, and alexander polyakov, and by edward witten. Professor to receive genius grant news the harvard. Terence tao, the worlds smartest man, knew graduatelevel physics and computer science at age 14 and to quote. There is so much in the universe that is astonishing, from the smallest particles to the largest galaxies. Then, in 1997, argentinean physicist juan maldacena published a paper, inspired by the holographic principle, that proposed.
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He has proposed a relationship between quantum gravity and quantum field theories that elucidates various aspects of both theories. Juan maldacenas work focuses on quantum gravity, string theory, and quantum field theory. He is studying this relationship further in order to understand the deep connection between black holes and quantum field. A path less taken to the peak of the math world quanta. It is a book which describes in lay terms some of the current ideas in particle physics and grand unified theories.
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Juan maldacena is argentinean by birth, only 42 years old, hes also currently at the institute for advanced study at princeton university, and yes, hes a string theorist. The audio sucks but he says a couple of interesting things. The problem defied einstein, but harvard physicist juan maldacena is using black holes and tiny cosmic strings to help figure out the theory of everything. Juan maldacena solves one of physics impressive riddles william. Some hot promising yet divisive conjectures mentioned readers with 66 spare minutes are recommended to watch a colloquium that juan maldacena, an inaugural milner prize winner and the father of not only the adscft correspondence, gave at the new york university a week ago. I read popular science books explaining electricity, and how a radio and.
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The macarthur fellows program, macarthur fellowship, commonly but unofficially known as a genius grant, is a prize awarded annually by the john d. The paper on black holes pointed out an interesting aspect of a black hole solution with. It meant that wormholes, hypothetical connections between farapart black holes also known as einsteinrosen bridges er, are mathematically equivalent to entangled particles, sometimes called einsteinpodolskyrosen pairs epr. Last summer at a banquet for some of the worlds leading theoreticians at santa barbara, california, a chorus energetically took up the tune of the macarena with maldacena as the focus of attention. In explaining how to recover information that has fallen into a black hole under just the right conditions, juan maldacena offered a new perspective on a problem that has worried me for many years. Physicists at princeton, with whom einstein had worked, considered einstein to be just average. The interesting life of a remarkably influential modern mathematician.
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