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The musical structure behind quantum physics

The quantum waves that play in music and nature

Bridget Queenan
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false vacuum decay

The physics that reveals the universe could be destroyed in a blink

Our universe could disappear at any moment

Mathias Vogel
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Hawking radiation and the messy truth behind black hole physics

Hawking radiation and the messy truth behind black hole physics

Bringing our models closer to reality

Eugene Chua
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occams razor is leading cosmology astray

Occam's razor is leading cosmology astray

The search for simplicity is a mistake

Jim Al-Khalili
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Reality is not made up of objects

Reality is not made up of objects

The Quantum Illusion of Objects

Dennis Dieks
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There is no such thing as the copenhagen interpretation

There is no Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

Why we should stop playing the straw man game

Noemi Bolzonetti
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The Big Bang didn't happen

What do the James Webb images really show?

Eric J. Lerner
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Time existed before the Big Bang

Time is fundamental, space is not

Lee Cronin
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Quantum physics and the end of naturalism

The need for transcendent reality

Bruce L. Gordon
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Spacetime is not fundamental

The reality deeper than spacetime

Donald Hoffman
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Consciousness is irrelevant to Quantum Mechanics

An Interview with Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli
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Our universe could disappear at any moment

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New theory of gravitational waves holds key to the early universe

New theory of gravitational waves holds key to the early universe

Gravitational waves may resolve problems with the Big Bang theory

Daniele Bertacca
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Einstein against black holes

Why Einstein thought what he thought

John D. Norton
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Spacetime is an idea not a reality

Spacetime isn’t real in the way you think

Spacetime is not a container we live inside of

Eleanor Knox
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The universe is not made of information

Why observing quantum events doesn't make them real

Gregg Jaeger
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Quantum physics reveals there is no such thing as things

There is no such thing as individuality in the quantum realm

Olimpia Lombardi
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Is Particle Physics About Particles

There are no particles or fields only structure

We should be selective realists about particles

Jonathan Bain
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To solve quantum gravity we must go beyond the physical

To unify Relativity and Quantum Mechanics we must abandon materialism

There is something more fundamental than both mind and matter

Dean Rickles
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a universe without dark matter

A universe without dark matter

The trouble with the cosmological consensus

Martín López Corredoira
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The Planck Scale isnt the limit physicists think it is

The Planck Scale isn't the limit physicists think it is

Does quantum gravity break down at the Planck Scale?

Caspar A. Jacobs
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Our universe is inside of a black hole

Our universe is inside of a black hole

Twisting spacetimes and the search for truth

Nikodem Poplawski
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A theory of everything will never work at all scales

Reality is fundamentally different at different sizes

Stephan Hartmann
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The Big Bang can't escape its religious beginnings

Can you take religion out of cosmology?

Niayesh Afshordi
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