spacetime
This mathematical trick can help you imagine space-time
Illustration of the creation of planets of the solar system NASA The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or two to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time for…
Why I’ve been somewhat obsessed with space-time this year
I HAVE been pretty obsessed with space-time this year. Thankfully, I am a theoretical physicist and, in principle, this is my day job. But the more time I have spent returning to my roots with it, the stranger the whole thing has started to seem to me. As I wrote in an earlier column, it…