{"id":9469,"date":"2021-10-14T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2021-10-14T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:41:14","slug":"nsf-supports-physics-research-in-quantum-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2021\/10\/14\/nsf-supports-physics-research-in-quantum-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF Supports Physics Research in Quantum Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research in string theory has spawned a new idea that gravity\u2014which is tightly linked to our perception of space and time\u2014might be an illusion, an approximate framework that is not fundamental. \u201cInstead,\u201d says Harvey Mudd College Professor of Physics Vatche Sahakian, \u201cthe way information intertwines in quantum mechanics might underly what we end up experiencing as space and gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Science Foundation has awarded Sahakian a grant to further explore this idea in his project \u201cRUI: Weaving space with quantum entanglement, and black holes in stochastic Matrix theory.\u201d The three-year project will use a mix of analytical and computational methods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne sometimes needs to perform challenging calculations that necessitate the use of high performance cutting-edge computational techniques, including the use of supercomputers,\u201d Sahakian says. \u201cThe project\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research in string theory has spawned a new idea that gravity\u2014which is tightly linked to our perception of space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":2800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,213,24,26],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-grant","category-physics","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}