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‘Science is a measure of our ignorance: the more we know, the more we realize how little we know’

Frontiers

As a member of the LISA and Einstein Telescope consortia, his research areas are gravitational waves, nonlocal quantum gravity, multifractal spacetimes, cosmologies beyond the standard model, and string theory. I mainly work on two theories of gravitation: multifractional spacetimes and nonlocal quantum gravity.

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Sonifying science: from an amino acid scale to a spider silk symphony

Physics World

Interestingly, these concepts are deeply rooted in the physics of vibrations of macroscopic objects such as strings or membranes, and have evolved through the interaction of humans with physical objects. Strings and things, from a web to a harp. As multiple strings are excited, complex sounds are generated ( J. Lend an ear.

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Guide to Mathematics

Environmental Science

It creates simple concepts around which other sciences are built and provides a quantitative framework for building hypotheses and theories (3) , not always dealing in absolutes, but always reaffirming evidence. Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal set wheels in motion for the creation of probability theory and rules of combinatorics.