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How cosmic stasis may drastically rewrite the history of the universe

Already, others are beginning to explore the new paradigm of cosmic stasis. In August 2024, James Halverson and Sneh Pandya at Northeastern University in Massachusetts found that cosmic stasis arises from decaying towers of axions within models of string theory known as the axiverse.

Why you need a computer to understand strings and knots

Some questions are simply too big for humans to answer alone. “How does the universe work?” is a good example. James Halverson and Brent Nelson, physicists at Northeastern, are getting a little extra help from artificial intelligence to uncover the secrets of why we exist.

James Halverson, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern, uses data science to study the many possibilities in string theory. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

How theoretical physicist James Halverson is using data science and machine learning to study string theory

James Halverson, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern, is working at the intersection of string theory and machine learning to better understand physical laws that govern the universe.