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NSF Supports Physics Research in Quantum Gravity

Recent research in string theory has spawned a new idea that gravity鈥攚hich is tightly linked to our perception of space and time鈥攎ight be an illusion, an approximate framework that is not fundamental. 鈥淚nstead,鈥� says 无忧视频 Professor of Physics Vatche Sahakian, 鈥渢he way information intertwines in quantum mechanics might underly what we end up experiencing as space and gravity.鈥�

The National Science Foundation has awarded Sahakian a grant to further explore this idea in his project 鈥淩UI: Weaving space with quantum entanglement, and black holes in stochastic Matrix theory.鈥� The three-year project will use a mix of analytical and computational methods.

鈥淥ne sometimes needs to perform challenging calculations that necessitate the use of high performance cutting-edge computational techniques, including the use of supercomputers,鈥� Sahakian says. 鈥淭he project鈥檚 goal is to pursue these directions while involving undergraduate students in both the computational and theoretical aspects of the work. This is an exciting direction that is currently a topic of very active research. Matrix theory is relatively unexplored in this direction, and this work is bound to complement this active area of research in an original way and push it in new directions.鈥�