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Every elementary particle falls into one of two categories. Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist fermions keep our atoms from collapsing.The story Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles first appeared on Quanta Magazi ...  Show more

In the allegory of Plato’s cave, prisoners see the world only through shadows. Extending this metaphor to AI, AI models are the prisoners and the shadows are streams of data. Are all models converging on a singular representation of reality? On this week’s episode of The Quanta P ...  Show more

The abstract numeral that changed everything, according to mathematician Talithia Williams. Before the introduction of zero, mathematics was a tangible subject, where numbers held weight and substance. With zero came the concept of a mathematical “nothing;” it turned our solid un ...  Show more

Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cous ...  Show more

When math is based on abstract concepts, how do we know it’s correct? Dr. Eugenia Cheng takes on that question in a new book.

The concept of math has been around for a long time, developing independently in many different cultures. In 1650 BC, the Egyptians were ...

L'idée que le Moyen Âge ait eu "peur du zéro" est un raccourci souvent utilisé pour décrire l'appréhension et les controverses entourant l'introduction du chiffre zéro en Europe médiévale. Mais cette "peur" est-elle réelle, ou bien s'agit-il d'une simplification historique ? E ...