The caustic mathematician Roger Casals Gutiérrez saw on his kitchen wall in 2023. Caustics are a type of singularity, a mathematical phenomenon that occurs when an surface goes through a transition.
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...
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