Physics
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What Impossible Meant to Richard Feynman
What I learned when I challenged the legendary physicist. -
What You’re Doing Right Now Is Proof of Quantum Theory
Running a computer underscores how quantum physics is remaking our world. -
Neuroscience Weighs in on Physics’ Biggest Questions
A theory of consciousness can help build a theory of everything. -
How I Escaped My Troubles Through Science
My life in theoretical physics took a fateful turn after 9/11. -
The Math of Living Things
Exploring the intersection of physical and biological laws.
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Our Little Life Is Rounded with Possibility
Science expressed only in terms of what happens is getting in the way of progress.
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The Country Gentleman of Physics
Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have always roamed free of academia.
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This Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible
Director Christopher Nolan could take a tip from new research into “closed timelike curves.”
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The Charmed Life of Frank Wilczek
A novelist gets a physicist to explain his scientific breakthroughs.
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Time Flows Toward Order
Revisiting the gospel of the second law of thermodynamics. -
The Synchronicity of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
How the theoretical physicist and analyst came together and then apart. -
The Physicist’s New Book of Life
Jeremy England says religious ideas can inform our scientific quest for the origin of life. -
Why Physics Can’t Tell Us What Life Is
The origin of life can’t be explained by first principles. -
Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking
A solution to the measurement problem, black hole paradox, and other quantum puzzles.