The Quantastic Journal

Potential ambitions of the Trump administration send alarming signals to the scientific community, supporting clientelism and suggesting…

What does the evidence about spirituality say so far and can it tell us why it’s pervasive across human societies?

Scientists have only scratched the surface of this topic

On Schönfinkel-Curry’s Theory of Everything for Mathematics

At the end of this script, life is rebooted on earth, as a mirror image of the old biology…

From extermination to limitless expansion, humanity has choices. Whether we make the right one is yet to be determined.

Einstein’s Special Relativity "officially" resolved the famous 19th Century moving magnet/ conductor and charge conundrum. But his "answer"…

We neither see nor hear them, yet they exist.

Again: no, not everything is "relative" in modern physics

Different observers can describe the same system in fundamentally different ways, yet quantum mechanics ensures that predictions made from…

You’ve probably heard of “enriched flour,” but do you know why it is enriched, and with what?

Expected Utility Maximization, Causal Decision Theory, and Strategic Dominance

Stories and lessons from three plants of the UW greenhouse/lab

Students in history classes often feel disconnected from the material. Aside from history majors, most students view intro-level history…

Could the scientific conclusions you have just read in a journal paper be completely bogus? A recent journalistic report published in…

A recent lecture on supraluminal motion

Listen up, all you skumbag tendentious movie science "correctors". That famous line, that all "science afficianados" love to mock, is NOT…

A causal chain that transmits information about shape, starting with the object itself and ending with our percept.

Some details of the modern standard model of cosmology.

A lab oversight from the 1960s resonates today with people who want the polio vaccine gone. Here’s why.

“With this bird, we have a way to understand memory in an incredibly simplified way, and in understanding their memory, we will understand…

The Standard Model of Cosmology follows from symmetry considerations alone together with Newtonian Mechanics and classical Thermodynamics…

Why it’s the phrase “the only good Helicobacter pylori is a dead [one]” that should be eliminated, not the bacterium

Einstein’s mathematical “consultant” to his General Relativity Project, Marcel Grossmann, instantly recognized that Riemannian Geometry…

Buying a quantum computer is nowhere near within reach of the average consumer, at least, if you want to own one, as IBM offers quantum…

The scie who investigate and try to make sense of “that which comes upon the people.”

The structure of the Riemannian Manifold, chosen as the scene for Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, captures perfectly the most…