Chiara Mingarelli, a physicist with a passion for science communication, devotes much of her professional time to deciphering the furtive chirps of gravitational waves from the far reaches of the universe. But that is not her only entry point for the ways that science speaks to us across vast distances. She recently arranged a conversation between graduate students in her Yale astrophysics lab, undergraduate students in her General Physics Lab, and some of history’s greatest mathematicians, phys