This year’s essay contest of the Foundational Questions Institute “How Should Humanity Steer the Future?” broaches a question that is fun...

The Ivory Tower from The Neverending Story. [ Source ] Talking to the students at the Sussex school  let me realize how straight-forw...

I will be traveling the rest of the week to give a lecture at the Sussex graduate school " From Classical to Quantum GR ", so not ...

[ Image Source ] Einstein’s greatest blunder wasn’t the cosmological constant, and neither was it his conviction that god doesn’t throw ...

Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics By Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman Basic Books (Fe...

The term “hard science” as opposed to “soft science” has no clear definition. But roughly speaking, the less the predictive power and the...

Physicists fly high on the idea that our three-dimensional world is actually two-dimensional, that we live in a hologram, and that we’re all...

Quantum gravitational effects are strong when space-time curvature becomes large, so large that it reaches the Planckian regime. Unfortu...

Secret handshake? Science or gibberish? “[E]xisting pseudorandom and introspective approaches use pervasive algorithms to create compa...

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Image source: Redbubble .  Gravity is an exceedingly weak force compared to the other known forces. It dominates at long distances just b...

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I am always disappointed by the media coverage on my research area. It forever seems to misrepresent this and forgets to mention that and ra...