George Musser

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    How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See

    The Arais do not merely dissect illusions, but can generate them, taking an image that looks boringly normal and making subtle changes, to color and contrast, to fool our brains. If you don’t know how something works, break it. Science is built on creative destruction: Much of what neuroscientists know of the brain, they know […]

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    A Theory of Consciousness Can Help Build a Theory of Everything

    Neuroscience is weighing in on physics’ biggest questions.

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    The Noise at the Bottom of the Universe

    The origin of quantum noise is the modern incarnation of a millennia-old debate.

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    Let’s Rethink Space

    Does space exist without objects, or is it made by them?

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    The Case for Fewer Dimensions

    At small scales, gravity seems to blow up—but not if space becomes 1-D.

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    The Quantum Mechanics of Fate

    How time travel might explain some of science’s biggest puzzles.

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    The Quantum Mechanics of Fate

    How time travel might explain some of science’s biggest puzzles.

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    Roadmap to Alpha Centauri

    Pick your favorite travel mode—big, small, light, dark, or twisted.