The story opens with a scene both familiar and deceptively simple: physicists once again interrogating the fabric of reality, ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

The KITP fellowship is tailored for faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions, aiming to enhance their integration into the global research community. Morse articulates that this program is ...

The Abdus Salaam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has awarded its 2015 Dirac Medal and Prize to Nicholas Read, the Henry Ford II Professor of Physics. Read received the Dirac Medal ...

A culinarily challenged amplitudologist decided to bake some cookies. To his horror, he discovered that his baking sheet has spontaneously broken a Z2 symmetry: a formerly flat metal sheet, it would ...

Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) has the following research output in the current window (1 September 2024 - 31 August 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A new debate has recently emerged as to ...