Investigating the universe's origins, structure, and evolution, from the smallest quantum scales to the cosmic horizon. We support research seeking to shed light on the fundamental principles shaping the universe and the nature of our reality.
History of Science
An Ode to Abstraction Growing up with colors and pastels in my hands, I spent a generous amount of years confused by other people qualifying my art as abstract. It was not until I looked at somebody looking at my painting that I understood from their gaze that we were
Cosmology
Warm wind, Floridian streets, evening light, we are listening to a song on the radio. Note by note, each word following another, initially our attention is focused sequentially on the music. What would it look like if suddenly our attention could become larger, taking a step back from the unfolding
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There are so many landscapes out there - political landscapes, economic landscapes, even moral landscapes! But have you ever heard of the “string theory landscape”? I first heard about this when I was a physics undergraduate and it sent me into a little bit of an existential tailspin. In string
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In the quest to understand the universe across all scales, certain concepts have sparked particular fascination during my early studies for their radical potential in foundational physics—among them, the idea of causation, holographic principles, relationalism, and nonlocality. What makes these ideas so compelling is that they speak directly to
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Eons ago, when I was a graduate student, the Big Bang model was the only serious game in town for explaining the origin (and, perhaps, fate) of the universe. Alternative cosmological ideas occasionally surfaced—concepts like the "Big Rip", "Big Crunch", and "Big Bounce"
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For millennia, humanity has projected its perception of reality onto nature and woven it into stories—the mountain reaching toward the heavens, the sun as a life-giving force, and the forest whispering ancient wisdom. These interpretations are not mere myths but expressions of an intuitive grasp of wholeness—the idea