Unraveling Paradoxes (November 16, 2012 podcast)
Extended interview with Jim Al-Khalili, who discusses his new book, covering classic conundrums from the history of physics and what they can still teach us today.
View ArticleIllusions of Time and the Self (November 16, 2012 podcast)
Craig Callender ponder why humans experience time's flow and its link to our sense of an enduring identity.
View ArticleTesting the Quantum Limits (November 16, 2012 podcast)
Where does wave-particle duality break down?; & two teams carry out Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment.
View ArticleVideo Article: Embracing Complexity (article)
Ideas inspired by microscopic physics and magnetism could help sustain the energy infrastructure, and predict the spread of disease, financial crises, and the fate of Facebook friendships.
View ArticleBad News for Supersymmetry?
The LHCb experiment at CERN recently announced results that put the theory of Supersymmetry into ever growing doubt. Our current picture of the Universe at the smallest scale is wrapped up in the...
View ArticleQuestioning the Foundations: Countdown and Thanks
This Friday, November 30, we will announce the winners of the 2012 Essay Contest, "Questioning the Foundations". We'd like to start the countdown to the big event now with some thanks and brief closing...
View ArticleQuestioning the Foundations: Results
And now! I am happy to announce the winners of our 2012 Essay Contest, "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Assumptions Are Wrong?" Without further ado, here are the winners: First prize of...
View ArticleThe Brain's Time Illusion (article)
Uncovering how the mind constructs our sense of time could help treat and prevent some psychological disorders.
View ArticleThe Building Blocks of Spacetime (December 16, 2012 podcast)
Joanna Karczmarek argues that spacetime is not fundamental -- and looks to string theory to find out what it's made from.
View ArticleTime & the String Multiverse (December 16, 2012 podcast)
Raphael Bousso searches for the origin of time's arrow in the multiple universes predicted by string theory.
View ArticleThe Year in Physics: 2012 Review (December 16, 2012 podcast)
Physicist Ian Durham countdowns his highlights of 2012, including advances in astronomy, quantum foundations & particle physics. (Extended interview.)
View ArticleThe Cosmic Hologram (article)
Is our universe an illusion projected backward in time from the future?
View ArticleThe Accidental Universe (article)
Have we been fooled into seeing one form of reality, with particular fundamental forces and laws, based on the peculiar way that we have chosen to measure time?
View ArticleAnother World
Here's a vacation photo from this past summer. It's taken on Mars; I went there, along with thousands of fascinated others, on the vehicle of the Curiosity rover and the vehicle of my imagination. I,...
View ArticleLooking Forward: FQXi Forum Discussions
On behalf of Max Tegmark and Anthony Aguirre, FQXi Directorate ---As we start the new year of 2013, we at FQXi have been looking over the past year and evaluating our plans for the future. As part of...
View ArticleLooking Forward: FQXi Endorsement
On behalf of Max Tegmark and Anthony Aguirre, FQXi Directorate ---In a previous post, we wrote about our plans for maintaining helpful, useful and interesting scientific discussion in our online...
View ArticleThe Quasar Cluster that Kills the Cosmological Principle?
Thanks to John Merryman for suggesting the topic of this post. Earlier this month, a team of astronomers led by Roger G. Clowes at the University of Central Lancashire reported the discovery of the...
View ArticleThe Cosmic Clock Ambiguity (January 25, 2013 podcast)
The way we choose to mark time in the early universe could profoundly change the fundamental laws of physics we measure. Physicist Andreas Albrecht discusses his research and whether it means we'll...
View ArticleQuantum Birds (January 25, 2013 podcast)
How European robins may exploit quantum effects to sense the Earth's magnetic field. Reporter Carinne Piekema talks to Simon Benjamin and Erik Gauger.
View ArticleIs God a Good Theory? (January 25, 2013 podcast)
Cosmologist Sean Carroll assesses God as a scientific theory, discusses physicist Don Page's theological argument for the Everettian multiverse, and asserts his own belief that the underlying physics...
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