Terence Tao is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He won the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and has contributed to a wide range of fields from fluid dynamics with Navier-Stokes equations to mathematical physics & quantum mechanics, prime numbers & analytics number theory, harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, random matrix theory, combinatorics, and progress on many of the hardest problems in the history of mathematics.
Einstein, feeling that his theory of general relativity was incomplete, wanted to develop a unified field theory—a framework that would combine space and time with energy and matter. (Indeed, it was Einstein who coined the term “unified theory.”) He ultimately failed. But I have begun to wonder if his idea, as ambitious as it was startling, isn’t worth revisiting.
Three guys claim that any heavy chunk of matter emits Hawking radiation, even if it's not a black hole: • Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke, Gravitational pair production and black hole evaporation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 (2023), 221502. Now they're getting more publicity by claiming this means that the universe…