“Dear Dr. Hossenfelder, First, I love your blog. You provide a great insight into the world of physics for us laymen. I have read in popula...

What if the universe was like a pile of laundry? Have one. See this laundry pile? Looks just like our universe. No? Here, have another. ...

I'll be in Stockholm next week for a program on Black Holes and Emergent Spacetime , so please be prepared for some service interruption...

Model of Inflation. img src: umich.edu I wrote my recent post on the “ Unbearable Lightness of Philosophy ” to introduce a paper summary...

Philosophy isn’t useful for practicing physicists. On that, I am with Steven Weinberg and Lawrence Krauss who have expressed similar opi...

The recently deceased diphoton bump.  Img Src: Matt Strassler. I finished high school in 1995. It was the year the top quark was discov...

[Img Src: LifeScience ] Why must school children suffer through so much math which they will never need in their life? That’s one of the...

Can you answer the following question? At the Big Bang the observable universe had the size of: A) A point (no size). B) A grapef...

Tl;dr: Yes, but it’s unlikely. If black holes attract your attention, white holes might blow your mind. A white hole is a time-reverse...

The first antenna of MeerKAT, a SKA precursor in South Africa. [ Image Source .] It’s hard to see black holes – after all, their defini...

Naturalness, according to physicists. Before the LHC turned on, theoretical physicists had high hopes the collisions would reveal new ph...

Also an acronym for “Not Even Wrong.” The year is 2016, and physicists are restless. Four years ago, the LHC confirmed the Higgs-boson, ...

Ich war am Montag in Regensburg und habe dort einen öffentlichen Vortrag gegeben zum Thema “Wissenschaft auf Abwegen” für eine Reihe unter d...

Somewhere in the multiverse you’re having a good day. The German Autobahn is famous for its lack of speed limits, and yet the greatest ...

[Cat’s cradle. Image Source .] Ten years ago, I didn’t take the “string wars” seriously. To begin with, referring to such an esoteric co...