Expanding Understanding
Ryn Grutkoski ’21 is passionate about searching for answers to unknown questions. “What drove me to physics in the first place was finding out just how much we really didn’t know, how many questions there still were,” said the physics major from Moose Lake, Minnesota. “We have this really solid theory of general relativity and gravity, and also have quantum mechanics, and they’re not compatible fully with each other. How can we have these two things that seem to work so well in their respective areas, but we can’t quite force them together?” As a winner of a coveted National...