[Image source: iPerceptions .] The Physics arXiv blog has praised a paper called “ On the weight of entanglement ” and claimed that the...

Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe: the Hunt for the Higgs Boson By John W Moffat Oxford University Press (2014) John Moffat’s...

In reaction to my essay “ Does the scientific method need revision? ” some philosophers at Daily Nous are discussing what I might have mea...

Theoretical physics has problems. That’s nothing new — if it wasn’t so, then we’d have nothing left to do. But especially in high energy p...

What I do in the library when I have a bad hair day ;) The shirt was a Christmas present from my mother. I happened to wear it that d...

The year is young and the arxiv numbers are now a digit longer, so there is much space for you to submit your groundbreaking new work. If ...

Some days I can almost get myself to believe that we live in a computer simulation, that all we see around us is a façade designed to misl...

Standards make sure the nuts fit the bolts. [Image Source: nutsandbolts.mit.edu ] The German Institute for Standardization, the “Deutsc...

Milla Jovovich in “The Fifth Element” I still find it amazing that all I see around me is made up of only some dozens particles and four ...

As the year 2014 is nearing its end, lists with the most read stories are making the rounds. Everything in there, from dinosaurs over mir...

I have a post about " The rising star of science " over at Starts with a Bang. It collects some of my thoughts on science and reli...

The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know about the All-There-Is Roberto Trotta Basic Books (9. Oktober 2014) It's two days before ...

Logo of site by name loop insight . The insight to take away is that you have to carefully look for those infinities [Fast track to wi...

During the summer, I wrote a paper that I dumped in an arxiv category called cond-mat.stat-mech, and then managed to entirely forget about ...

“The anthropic principle – the idea that our universe has the properties it does because we are here to say so and that if it were any diff...