sabine-hossenfelder 3 months ago
PhD in physics #Space and Time

Spacetime’s Building Blocks Are Quasicrystals, Physicists Claim

What is space, really? That’s one of the biggest questions in science. According to a pair of researchers from the Perimeter Institute, the answer to that is: a quasicrystal.

What is a quasicrystal, and how is space a quasicrystal? Let’s take a look.

Sabine Hossenfelder
PhD in physics