Stephen Hawking at his office at the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University in 2005. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian. Before he u ...
What if the Big Bang didn't begin with a singularity? This point of infinite density, which so divides physicists, could be ...
Quantum gravity is a research area in theoretical physics that seeks a consistent, predictive framework unifying general relativity with quantum mechanics by quantizing the gravitational field. It ...
The first step toward quantum gravity, the "holy grail of physics," may be hiding in a quantum recipe to cook up black holes. That's the suggestion of new research that adds quantum corrections to ...
Quantum field theory (QFT) is a research area in theoretical physics that formulates fundamental interactions in terms of quantized fields defined over spacetime, unifying special relativity and ...