Fascinating stuff: What happens when you throw an elephant into a black hole? It sounds like a bad joke, but it’s a question that has been weighing heavily on Leonard Susskind’s mind. Susskind, a physicist at Stanford University in California, has been trying to save that elephant for decades. He has finally found a way […]
This is about to get ugly (link requires paid WSJ subscription): Nobel physicist Wolfgang Pauli didn’t suffer fools gladly. Fond of calling colleagues’ work “wrong” or “completely wrong,” he saved his worst epithet for work so sloppy and speculative it is “not even wrong.” That’s how mathematician Peter Woit of Columbia University describes string theory. […]
So the old question of Free Will (link takes you to a teaser; paid subscription required to read the article) is once again rearing its head: Underneath the uncertainty of quantum mechanics could lie a deeper reality in which, shockingly, all our actions are predetermined “WE MUST believe in free will, we have no choice,” […]