In order: space, space with a black hole in it, space with a theorized topological soliton. Gif: PIERRE HEIDMANN/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object ...
On the left, the schematic illustration depicts the gluing rules of the Brillouin manifold, with a half-twist operation connecting the opposing faces. On the right, the BZ is divided into 64 blocks by ...