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Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analy...more

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Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now' - and therefore all the ...more

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Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

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Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is...more

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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

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We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, i...more

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...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

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Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.