Folks, I recently read the website of the Flat Earth Society. I’m serious! It’s a most remarkable collection of… nonsense. Maybe most remark...

Einstein’s greatest legacy is not General Relativity, it’s not the photoelectric effect, and it’s not slices of his brain. It’s a word: Geda...

If you do an image search for “quantum mechanics” you will find a lot of equations that contain things which look like this |Φ> or this |...

I get constantly asked if I could please comment on other people’s theories of everything. That could be Garrett Lisi’s E8 theory or Eric We...

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Metrology is one of the most undervalued areas of science. And no, I am not just mispronouncing meteorology, I actually mean metrology. Thin...

Today I want to talk about a peculiar aspect of quantum measurements that you may have heard of. It’s that the measurement does not merely r...

Size of 100km tunnel for CERN's planned new collider, the FCC. [Image:CERN] For the first time in the history of particle physics t...

Is the earth flat? Is 5G is a mind-control experiment by the Russian government? What about the idea that COVID was engineered by the vaccin...

Yes, I believe there is life on other planets, intelligent life even. I also think that the search for life elsewhere in the universe is THE...

You wanted me to sing in German. Your wish is my command.

My book Lost in Math was published two years ago, and this week the paperback edition will appear . I want to use the occasion to tell you ...

Locality means that to get from one point to another you somehow have to make a connection in space between these points. You cannot suddenl...

Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. You have probably heard something like that. But is this really correc...

This is for the guy who recommended I “release” my “inner Whitney Houston”.

The US version of my book "Lost in Math" is about to be published as paperback. You can now pre-order it , which of course you s...

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