Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Coming in at #3 on Ian Durham’s countdown of the TOP 5 BIGGEST physics stories of the year... a team at the University of British Columbia proving the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture.

You can hear what this result is (and why it matters) on the latest FQxI podcast: qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/127/2025.12.31

In this clip from the podcast, Ian shares why his grandmother may not have quite shared the same enthusiasm for geometry.