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Sir Roger Penrose talks about the work that earned him a Nobel prize in physics, developing mathematics to analyze spacetime, his 1965 paper “Gravitational Collapse and...

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Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Quantum Theory, and General Relativity

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Pedro Ferreira
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David Shatz
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Bernard Carr
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Quantum mechanics, the best theory of the very small, and general relativity, the best theory of the very large, are deeply incompatible. One way to compare and contrast the...

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Events in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity

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Are there ‘general principles’ that encompass all sciences, which have explanatory strength from physics to biology? Could such general principles even explain...

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Do General Principles Govern All Science?

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Interview with Rebecca Boyle on the History of the Moon

04.08.24

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Are events measured by time? Or is time created by sequences of events? Which is more fundamental, events or time? Worse, we may get different answers from quantum mechanics...

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New Theory of Gravity Solves Accelerating Universe

07.26.24

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