The Dream Universe:  How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way By David Lindley Doubleday (March 17, 2020) Let me be honest: I expected to ...

A Philosophical Approach to MOND: Assessing the Milgromian Research Program in Cosmology By David Merritt Cambridge University Press (Apri...

The scientific method is only a few hundred years old. This continues to amaze me. It seems so obvious, now, that you should go and test you...

Moderating comments on this blog is a constant pain. That’s partly because there are always commenters which ignore the comment rules, thus ...

Pretty? Get over it. You would think that physicists finally understood that insisting the laws of nature must be beautiful is unscienti...

This must be one of the most common misunderstandings about quantum mechanics, that quantum mechanics is about making things discrete. But i...

I have decided that my YouTube channel lacks a history part because there is so much we can learn from the history of science. So, today I w...

The singing climate scientist is back, enjoy!

Last week, we spoke about emergence , this week, we will speak about the opposite: Reductionism. Reductionism, loosely speaking, is the idea...

The word “emerging” is often used colloquially to mean something like “giving rise to” or “becoming apparent”. But emerging, emergent, and e...

I have noticed that each time I talk or write about dark energy or dark matter, I get a lot of comments from people saying, oh that stuff do...

There are quite a number of mathematical theorems that prove the power of mathematics has its limits. But how relevant are these theorems fo...

I keep getting requests from people that I comment on the coronavirus pandemic, disease models, or measures taken to contain and mitigate th...

Just a brief note that Tim and I have an essay up at Nautilus How to Make Sense of Quantum Physics Superdeterminism, a long-abandoned ide...

I was sick last week and lost like 10 pounds in 3 days, which brings up the question, what is weight? Weight is actually the force that a...

I spoke with Professor Subir Sarkar from the University of Oxford about his claim that dark energy might not exist and the so-called Hubble-...

[Image: Scott McLeod/Flickr ] 14 years ago, I was a postdoc in Santa Barbara, in a tiny corner office where the windows wouldn't ope...

Quanta Magazine has an article by Phillip Ball titled “ Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab” . It’s ab...

Today I have a count-down of the 10 most important effects in physics that you should all know about. 10. The Doppler Effect The Dopp...