Ginestra Bianconi

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Ginestra Bianconi: The Physicist Who (Unexpectedly) Derived Gravity From Entropy · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

So, for instance, how, you know, the presence, the topology of the network, so the presence of big hub can affect epidemic spreading or things like that.

But recently it is becoming clear that topology and geometry also play a fundamental role in shaping the interplane between structure and dynamics.

And I've been working a lot on how topology shapes dynamics in network, and this is an important mathematical problem that, you know, has implications for machine learning up to brain research.

But, you know, if you want to build this theory, that is a theory that includes topology, geometry, and dynamics, there are two aspects.

One aspect is that you want to write a theory that captures this interplane

using information theory because ultimately you want to study, to describe the system in terms of their information content.

And maybe we can go back to that.

But on the other side, you don't have enough mathematics in the discrete.

So also the notion of curvature is not well-defined in the discrete setting.

It's a very important proposal.

I was giving a seminar at ICTP in Trieste in Italy, and somebody told me, but if you are doing this, why don't you do that in the continuum?

Right.

And I answered, no, I will never go in the continuum.

And then I reflected on this and, you know, yes.

So the continuum of this theory has to do a lot with gravity.

And then why don't facing the real challenging problem that is gravity?

quantum gravity and gravity.

Because, you know, somehow I think maybe a bit controversial to understand the brain is more difficult to understand quantum gravity.

Because all my life I was doing in the, I was working in the discrete and somehow I was raised with a belief that maybe also quantum gravity should be discrete or that, you know, nature should be discrete ultimately, which can be the case.

But yes, so then we have Gauss, we have Riemann, they're all working in the continuum.

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