Physicists are trying to ditch the concept of space-time – the supposed fabric of physical reality. Quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explains why.
The concept of nothing once sparked a 1000-year-long war, today it might explain dark energy and nothingness even has the potential to destroy the universe, explains physicist Antonio Padilla
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In the 2024 SWC Lecture, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP and Fellow at Google Research and Google’s CTO of Technology & Society, challenged the notion that the brain is not a computer. He explained how both life and intelligence are inherently computational and may even be selected for in the same way.
Live illustration by Alex Cagan.
From single words to sentence production: shared cortical representations but distinct temporal dynamics.
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