The coincidence revealed itself to be a conspiracy: The theories describing the three types of particles were, when viewed from the right perspective, essentially one.
For nearly two decades, Figueiredo's doctoral adviser, Nima Arkani-Hamed, has been leading a hunt for a new way of doing physics.
Many physicists believe they've reached the end of the road when it comes to conceptualizing reality in terms of quantum events that play out in space and time.
Arkani-Hamed suspects that the usual notion of quantum particles moving and interacting in space-time is an approximation of deeper, more abstract concepts.
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