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Friday, February 2, 2024
In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for Missing Matter
Plus: Terence Tao on "The Joy of Why"; Seedlings' cellular trick for finding light; New limit for linear programming; Origami is Turing-complete
In a 'Dark Dimension,' Physicists Search for the Universe's Missing Matter
By STEVE NADIS
An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hiding in a (relatively) large extra dimension. The theory makes testable predictions that physicists are investigating now.
Terence Tao, who has been called the "Mozart of Mathematics," wrote an essay in 2007 about the common ingredients in "good" mathematical research. In this episode, the Fields Medalist joins Steven Strogatz to revisit the topic.
Light changes direction when it moves through different materials. A recent study found that seedlings possess cellular mechanisms that help measure refraction, imbuing them with a sense of where light is.
What's a computer? Technically speaking, it's any machine that can perform computations. A recent proof shows that origami can serve as one such machine.
