Research Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, with a special interest in the phenomenology of quantum gravity. Her freelance work has been published in Forbes, Scientific American, and New Scientist, among others. Her latest book is Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (2018).
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Physics
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, and other lies of physics
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Cosmology
Echoes of a black hole
Ripples in space-time could herald the demise of general relativity and its replacement by a quantum theory of gravity
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Physics
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
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Quantum theory
Black-hole computing
Might nature’s bottomless pits actually be ultra-efficient quantum computers? That could explain why data never dies
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Astronomy
The superfluid Universe
Quantum effects are not just subatomic: they can be expressed across galaxies, and solve the puzzle of dark matter
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