Tag: Big Think
Physicist: Why the “Alien Simulation” Hypothesis Is Bunk
Assuming that the regression does not continue endlessly, only the First Simulator is real. But then, why do any simulators even bother?
Astrophysicists Battle over Whether the Multiverse Must Exist
“If cosmic inflation and quantum field theory are both correct, then the Multiverse arises as an inevitable consequence of the two.”
Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No
Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws.
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Again Desperately Attempts to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning
If the model were plausible, the level of fine-tuning would represent even greater evidence of design than it was intended to avoid by removing the beginning.
Information as Matter’s “Fifth State” — A Physicist’s Contortion
Dark matter is the unknown substance thought to make up some 27 percent of the universe. It can’t be observed but only theorized.