physics
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.
The Road Less Traveled to Fusion Energy
This privateer is developing a way to power the world with water and borax.
How to Make Sense of Quantum Physics
Superdeterminism, a long-abandoned idea, may help us overcome the current crisis in physics.
The Eccentric Seer of Supernovas
Fritz Zwicky decoded how exploding stars fill space with cosmic rays.
Is the Law of Conservation of Energy Cancelled?
Maybe energy can be created and destroyed, or maybe the notion doesn’t quite make sense.
A Hologram Shows How Space Could Pop Into Existence
The holographic principle—with a real hologram.
A Novelist Teaches Herself Physics
To explore loss and mystery, Nell Freudenberger journeyed into the atomic world.
The Spirit of the Inquisition Lives in Science
What a 16th-century scientist can tell us about the fate of a physicist like David Bohm.