Fundamental physics is humanity’s most extraordinary achievement
It sees worlds in grains of sand and infinities in hours
IN THE PAST few centuries physics has transformed both daily life and world history with novelties ranging from electricity to nuclear bombs. Physicists have also broadened humanity’s horizons, literally and metaphorically. Time and again, they have overturned notions of reality previously held—often by the self same physicists—to be fundamental. They could be about to do so once more.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “To see a world in a grain of sand”
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