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The Feynman Lectures on Art
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. It's an appreciation of the mathematical beauty of nature,...
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The Dawn of Galaxies
Looking deeper into the universe also means peering farther back in time. The universe is now 13.7 billion years old. On December 12, astronomers announced they have seen the further back in time than...
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Unreasonable Beauty
[Mathematical beauty] “is a quality which cannot be defined any more than beauty in art can be defined, but which people who study mathematics usually have no difficulty in appreciating,” […]
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Living in a Computer
We are living in a computer programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs. We […]
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Living On The Outskirts
The answer to Fermi’s paradox (Where is Everybody?) may be simply that we are living on the outskirts of a presumably civilized universe. We may think that the Milky Way is nice. After all, our galaxy...
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The Likelihood of Universal Solitude
The Drake equation estimates the number of active, extra-terrestrial civilizations that might be contactable. It was proposed by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961, as a way to stimulate scientific...
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It Is Beautiful, Therefore It Exists
General Relativity is the reason why I decided to study physics many years ago. (Too many to confess here.) Tomorow is the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s presentation to the Prussian Academy of...
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Quixotic Science
This week Ed Boyden, a professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT Media Lab, speaking for Edge.org said: The history of science has shown us that you need the tools...
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Invisible Witchcraft
Arthur C. Clarke’s was a brilliant futurist and science fiction writer. He is widely known—among other things—for his Three Laws, in particular the Third and most cited one: “any sufficiently advanced...
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Will Google achieve Quantum Supremacy this year?
A critical question for the field of quantum computing is whether quantum devices without error correction can perform a well-defined computational task beyond the capabilities of state-of-the-art...
View ArticleTime travel in fiction
A nice video by minutephysics analysing different forms of time travel in fiction. … an explanation of how time travel functions in different popular movies, books, & shows – not how it works...
View ArticleBuilding the universe
This is the most complete simulation of the universe ever built by humans. The IllustrisTNG project is a suite of state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy formation simulations. The simulations can be used...
View ArticleStephen Hawking: In Memoriam
Stephen Hawking showed us light can be found even in the darkest hole. A brilliant mind.
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Free Will
Quantum mechanics is weird(*), therefore physicists have sought for years another possible explanation (theory) for empirical evidence compatible with the so-called Einstein’s principle of local...
View ArticleHow to put a dent in the universe
Steve Jobs is supposed to have said(*) once: We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here? By putting a dent, he was probably exalting us to live a life of significance...
View ArticlePlaying tennis with ʻOumuamua Balls
Panspermia is viable on galactic scales, and the entire Milky Way could potentially be exchanging biotic components across vast distances. If bacteria and other possible extremophiles have sufficiently...
View ArticleSorry Pinker, humankind is not likely progressing toward a more peaceful world
The conclusions of a new study(1) of wars over 600 years of human history are disturbing. The number of war casualties tends to follow a power law over the whole data series for the period considered,...
View ArticleThe Sounds of Deep Silence
You can hear the universe whispering. Deep space “sonified” according (pun intended) to NASA. Do you like it? I do, but I think Thelonius Monk would have made a better job. ____________________...
View ArticleFly me to Mars and beyond
Long-duration missions are expected to take humans to Mars and beyond during the next decade. We know that the impacts of the spaceflight environment on human health and performance, physiology, and...
View ArticleThe little secret behind the first picture of a Black Hole
Using science, the effort of hundreds or thousands of scientists are combined across geographies and over the years to reveal the more precise image of reality we have. Science is the "interferometry"...
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