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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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A Universe of Causes

We assume that effect follows cause. Is this true?

George Ellis
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The Eureka Moment

Scientific advance is a roll call of eureka moments.

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Hawking vs. Philosophy

Hawking said philosophy is dead. Was he right?

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Who Shaves the Barber?

Is mathematics shakier than we realised?

Peter Cameron
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Infinity in 500 words

David Malone rises to the challenge.

David Malone
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The Elegant Universe

Elegant solutions to science's biggest questions.

Julian Barbour
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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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What Einstein got wrong about a Black Holes point of no return

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

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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