Laureates

Rana Adhikari

Rana Adhikari

California Institute of Technology

2019 New Horizons in Physics Prize

For research on present and future ground-based detectors of gravitational waves.

Comments

Is spacetime fundamental or emergent? Are there regions of the universe with radically different physical laws? Are the postulates of quantum mechanics accurate at the human scale? Will the concept of locality have to be dropped to understand black holes?

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