Tag: quantum mechanics
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying
In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what “nothing” means.
Is the Multiverse Science or Religion?
Or pseudoscience? A no-nonsense theoretical physicist reveals a gift for comedy as she tries to explain theories that place no constraints on what can happen.
Philosopher Looks for a Way to Redefine Free Will
Julian Baggini’s proposed new approach assumes the existence of the very qualities that only a traditional view of the mind offers.
Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe
Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.”
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.”