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Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram has a radical proposal for where it come...
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Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram has a radical proposal for where it come...
A new breakthrough pushes the limits of randomness, bringing a decades-old mathematical mystery closer to resolution
“Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life and all the en...
The story of the author’s extremely early career
To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.
Kevin Kelly wrote Out of Control in 1994, a sprawling study of emergence, hive minds, and bottom-up systems that arrived before the web and got mostly ignored in the US. Thirty-tw...
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Arthur Eddington on the Strange Gap Between Science and Experience
“What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Stephen Hawking wondered, recognizing the quixotic nature of his quest for a theory of...
This essay is adapted from Traversal. She is looking at the staff lines of a strange symphony in blue, her cautious disbelief punctured by a burst of delirious wonderment. Brushes...
Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
From slow elevators to perfectly split pizza, math quietly explains the quirks of everyday life
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) appears sudden and revolutionary, yet its origins stretch deep into history, revealing a profound and forgotten intellectual exchange bet...
The mechanics of the automated mind, the passenger script, and the "Born Again" protocol.Continue reading on Medium »
On Thursday Knicks fans are flocking to Manhattan for a ticker-tape parade. But where did ticker tape even come from?
A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and reveal the ultimate fuzziness of time
In 1969, IBM wanted to show off Ted Nelson's early hypertext system at a conference, and Nelson secured permission to demonstrate it using an unlikely text: Vladimir Nabokov's 1962...
Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough...
"Everything impinges on everything else... Everything is potentially everywhere."
A self is a story of why you are you — a selective retelling of the myriad chance events between the birth of the universe and this moment: atoms bonding one way and not another, p...
New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation.
How a confused romancer that survived the Ice Age became a tropical sensation and took over the world.
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