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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

The Quanta Podcast

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Quantum Field Theories

There is a big darkness which we don't know how to define, but we know it there. Costello has illuminated some of that dark space with his definitions of quantum fields. He's discovered two surprising new quantum field theories. Neither describes our four-dimensional universe, but they do satisfy the core demands of a geometric space equipped with correlation functions.

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