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in The Infinite Universe

The end of the universe, not the beginning, may be the moment of creation

Last week’s article got me thinking about time inversion and I looked more carefully into arrow of time reversal experiments like this one…

How time inversion really works

Tenet came out in 2020 which seems like a lifetime ago now. The Christopher Nolan sci-fi thriller quickly became divisive partly because…

Zero-point energy may not exist

In a previous post, I talked about how there might be more ordinary explanations for the Casimir effect that do not rely on vacuum energy…

The Casimir effect may not come from vacuum energy

Recently I saw a post on twitter claiming that AI could be powered with quantum vacuum energy. The post was accompanied by a figure from a…

Would the real quantum gravity please stand up?

Quantum gravity research often reminds me of the 1963 classic comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World about a criminal who crashes his car…

Quantum particles may be exchanging secret messages

Imagine that Alice is piloting a space ship light years away from Earth. Bob steers his space ship in the opposite direction, also light…

Quantum physics, Buddhism, Aquinas and the nature of the human soul

Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash

Aristotle and Aquinas take on quantum physics

We may question the universe into existence

How a founder of quantum physics and an 18th century philosopher imagined a universe created by the answers to questions

Comment on my Aeon essay: All Possible Worlds

The existence of alternate worlds has always fascinated me and, learning about the Many Worlds Interpretations (MWI) of quantum physics as…

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