Heidelberg physicist Astrid Eichhorn explores asymptotic safety theory; proposes laws of physics stabilize at Planck scale instead of breaking down into strings or loops.

Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals | Quanta Magazine

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further. Astrid Eichhorn, a physicist at Heidelberg University in Germany, is a leader in the field of asymptotic safety — a conservative theory of quantum gravity. Konrad Gös for Quanta Magazine Introduction Astrid Eichhorn spends her days thinking about how the laws of physics change at the tiniest scales. Imagine ...