Stephen Hawking made a number of memorable contributions to physics, but perhaps his greatest was a puzzle: what happens to […]
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There are some problems for which it’s very hard to find the answer, but very easy to check the answer
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The past few centuries of scientific progress have displaced humanity from the center of it all: the Earth is not
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We’ve talked a lot recently about the Many Worlds of quantum mechanics. That’s one kind of multiverse that physicists often
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Cosmologists are always talking excitedly about the Big Bang and all the cool stuff that happened in the 14 billion
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I suspect most loyal Mindscape listeners have been exposed to the fact that I’ve written a new book, Something Deeply
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There are many mysteries surrounding quantum mechanics. To me, the biggest mysteries are why physicists haven’t yet agreed on a
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