Thursday, August 21, 2025
GPT-5: Have We Finally Hit The AI Scaling Wall?
OpenAI just released its GPT-5 LLM and AI startups across the world are still getting massive valuations from investors. But talk of Large Language Models hitting a “wall” are not going away. A new paper now explained what the real problem with AI scaling is. Is the AI wall real or not? Let’s take a look.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Singularities are Inevitable, Physicist Claims
According to Einstein’s theories, the universe started with a Big Bang singularity and is slowly expanding until it disperses into nothingness. But physicists have also come up with theories claiming that the Big Bang was non-singular and can repeat, restarting the cycle over again. These are called “cyclic models,” and they’ve re-emerged into the spotlight now that there’s mounting evidence that dark energy is weakening over time. However, a physicist from UC Berkeley recently published a paper which he claims “categorically rules out” cyclic models. Let’s take a look.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
This Is How People Game Science Publishing
Things are not looking good for the future of science publishing. Researchers are leveraging AI, paper mills are churning out more fake papers than ever, and people are constantly coming up with new strategies to abuse the peer review system. Let’s take a look at how the world of science publishing is struggling with the growing issue of science fraud.
Sunday, August 17, 2025
New Observations Fit Neatly With String Theory, Physicists Find
According to a growing body of data, dark energy is not constant. Instead, physicists claim, it’s slowly getting weaker. This has understandably shaken our understanding of the universe – this week, physicists show that the new data is compatible with string theory, and that the universe will eventually collapse. Let’s take a look.
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Constructor Theory Explains Origin of Time
Most physicists believe that time fundamentally doesn’t exist, because the concept of time is incompatible with a model of physics where quantum mechanics and general relativity coexist. David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto have now shown that “constructor theory” can be used to construct time. Let’s take a look.
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Scientific research has big problems, and it's getting worse
Today I have a few words about some well-known and maybe not-so well known problems with scientific research and what others have said about this.
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Is Dark Matter Evidence Of A Mirror Universe?
Recently, a physicist published a paper claiming that dark matter is the consequence of a mirror universe. What is a mirror universe? Is this idea as far-fetched as it sounds? Or does it actually make sense? Let’s take a look.
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Did MIT Researchers Just Prove Einstein Wrong?
In 1927, Einstein used a variant of the double slit experiment – at that time only a thought experiment – to argue that quantum mechanics are wrong. Up until recently, researchers have been unable to fully disprove his claims. Now, though, a group of physicists from MIT claim they’ve proven that Einstein was wrong about quantum physics by actually carrying out the experiment. Let’s take a look.
Monday, August 11, 2025
Stunning! AI “Creativity” Is Highly Predictable, Researchers Find
Is AI truly creative or is it, as Noam Chomsky put it, merely “high-tech plagiarism?” Multiple studies have documented that AI is more creative and more efficient at creative tasks than humans. But in a stunning paper that just appeared, researchers demonstrate that images produced with (simple) convolutional neural nets are 90% predictable by purely analytical methods. So how creative is AI really? Let’s take a look.
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Black Holes Can Eat Stars from Within, Physicists Claim
According to a team of physicists, black holes can form inside of stars, slowly consuming them from the inside until they collapse. While this might sound like something out of a science fiction movie, it’s not complete nonsense. Let’s take a look.
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Saturday, August 09, 2025
How Quantum Physics Changes Our View Of Reality
The discovery of quantum mechanics has fundamentally changed not just the field of physics but also our understanding of what reality is. Let’s take a look at just what makes quantum physics so weird and why it is so hard to reconcile with our perception of physical reality.
Friday, August 08, 2025
New Theory: Space Has Memory, Stores Information
Gravitational memory” is the idea that gravity’s ability to duplicate information from other forces should somehow store that information in certain masses. A group of physicists has now published a series of papers claiming that this idea might solve the black hole information loss problem and explain dark matter. Really? Let’s take a look.
Thursday, August 07, 2025
We Are Underestimating AI
Already tired of hearing about how AI is going to change the world? Well, I think they’re right and we are underestimating AI. Let’s take a look at what AI experts, super-predictors, consultants, and investors are all predicting about the future of AI.
Tuesday, August 05, 2025
More Controversy Over Microsoft’s Quantum Computing Claims
Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled its new Majorana quantum processor which supposedly used topological qubits which are less susceptible to noise. Unfortunately for the company, that claim was quickly disputed by quantum researchers. Now, though, Microsoft researchers have published yet another paper to the arXiv claiming that they’ve made another quantum breakthrough. Let’s take a look.
Saturday, August 02, 2025
The 10 Biggest Physics Paradoxes and Problems
In today’s video, I have a brief rundown of my 10 favorite physics paradoxes and big problems. If you have trouble sleeping at night, this will give you something to think about.
Friday, August 01, 2025
Africa Is Getting a New Ocean, And We Finally Know Why
The African continental plate is cracking and will probably get a new ocean. Geologists can see the cracks forming in real time but it has so far remained unclear just what is causing this. In a new paper that just appeared, scientists say they have figured out what is going on. And that also gives us a clue to what might happen next.
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