The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic particles would all produce the same wreckage. It was like laying a grid over maps of London, Tokyo, and New York and seeing that all three cities had train stations at the same coordinates.

“They are very different [particle] theories. There’s no reason for them to be connected,” Figueiredo said.

The coincidence soon revealed itself to be a conspiracy: The theories describing the three types of particles were, when viewed from the right perspective,

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