Is space digital? (Cover story)

• Autores: Michael Moyer
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 306, Nº. 2, 2012, págs. 30-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses a physics experiment by physicist Craig Hogan of the University of Chicago and director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Particle Astrophysics Center near Batavia, Illinois. Hogan's team is investigating whether space is digital by attempting to measure the connections between information, matter, and spacetime. Topics include the Standard Model of particle physics, which is a web of theories and insights developed during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the development of an interferometer by Hogan's team to measure the grainy nature of the universe, and the implications for physics if theories about space and time are found to be unlike what physicists thought they were.