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Physicist Sabrina González-Pasterski pursues AI to unify physics theories

The Cuban-American researcher, who built a plane at 14 and published black hole work cited by Hawking, now uses machine learning to find connections between incompatible theories.

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What to know

  • González-Pasterski, 33, is a prodigy physicist whose early breakthroughs—building a plane at 14, publishing black hole research cited by Hawking at 22—established her as a major theoretical voice.
  • She now leads research at Canada's Perimeter Institute on celestial holography, a field that may hold the key to unifying Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics.
  • Her current focus is using AI not as a simple question-answering tool, but as a knowledge representation system to discover new connections between incompatible theories and generate novel research directions.

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Physicist Sabrina González-Pasterski pursues AI to unify physics theories
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    El País publishes interview with physicist González-Pasterski on AI and theoretical physics

    El País interviews Sabrina González-Pasterski about her career and current research. The piece highlights her early achievements—building a plane at 14, earning top physics honors at MIT, publishing black hole research cited by Stephen Hawking at age 22—and her current work at the Perimeter Institute on celestial holography and using AI to bridge Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics.

    “Lo que quiero ahora mismo es aprovechar la inteligencia artificial (IA) para que sea algo más que una máquina de respuestas, para construir una representación del conocimiento de la física que nos permita descubrir nuevas conexiones entre teorías y formular nuevas preguntas…”
    — Sabrina González-Pasterski
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      Con 14 años construyó un avión y aprendió a pilotarlo. Con 22, escribió un artículo sobre agujeros negros citado por Stephen Hawking. A la física, Sabrina González-Pasterski, le daba vergüenza que le llamasen la nueva Einstein: "Pero ahora pienso: que le den”

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