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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author joins us to talk about his time visiting CERN and communicating quantum physics in fiction.
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In this episode, we speak with Hernan Diaz whose most recent novel Ply blends a vision of a dystopian future with questions about selfhood and asks whether advanced physics could be used to unravel the fabric of spacetime itself.
Ply Hernan Diaz Picador (2026)
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03057-4
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