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David Deutsch
Founding Father of Quantum Computing
David Deutsch is a pioneering theoretical physicist best known as the founding father of quantum computation and as a key figure and advocate for the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Deutsch is a Visiting Professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation and the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University. He is also the inventor of constructor theory, a new approach to formulating fundamental laws in physics.
Deutsch’s books, The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity, explore the deep connections between physics, epistemology, and progress, arguing that knowledge creation is limitless. Deutsch’s work continues to influence fields from theoretical physics to artificial intelligence and philosophy of science.
David Deutsch is a pioneering theoretical physicist best known as the founding father of quantum computation and as a key figure and advocate for the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Deutsch is a Visiting Professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation and the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University. He is also the inventor of constructor theory, a new approach to formulating fundamental laws in physics.
Deutsch’s books, The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity, explore the deep connections between physics, epistemology, and progress, arguing that knowledge creation is limitless. Deutsch’s work continues to influence fields from theoretical physics to artificial intelligence and philosophy of science.
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Spacetime and the Structure of Reality
Carlo Rovelli on Loop Quantum Gravity
Is Time Travel Just a Fantasy?
Exploring the outer limits of physics
Gravity minus dark matter
Erik Verlinde offers a new theory of gravitation
Missing Evidence
Does physics still need experiment?
Is Nothing an Illusion?
Explaining everything and Nothing
Gravity
Why is gravity so elusive?
The End of the Theory of Everything
Can we fully describe reality?
Time, Space and Being
Are space and time real?
Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Can science solve metaphysics' riddle?
The Laws of the Universe
Are the laws of nature just human constructs?
Back from the End of Time
Is the passage of time an illusion?
Cosmic Dreams
Forty years on, what questions has String Theory left unanswered?
The Strangeness of Things
Are things a necessary foundation of reality?
Why The World Exists
In Search of Parallel Universes
Big Bang Creation Myths
Is the Big Bang theory mistaken?
The End of All Things
What is reality made of?
Is Reality an Illusion?
Quantum physics, objective and subjective reality
The Dark Universe
Are theories of dark matter and dark energy true?
Why Does Time Fly?
Bernard Carr | Time and consciousness
Quantum Whispers
Is teleportation close to becoming a reality?
Decoding the Universe
Chiara Marletto | Reality as a string of code
The Poetry of the Universe
Sean Carroll | We are made of stories, not atoms
Playing Dice With The Universe
Is the universe really unknowable even to itself?
When Time Stands Still
Is the flow of time an illusion?
How to Find a Multiverse
The Latest Evidence of Parallel Worlds
Time's Arrow
Can physics explain the nature of time?
Bang Goes the Big Bang
Is it possible that the Big Bang is a mistake?
The Next Universe
Roger Penrose's New Story of Existence
After the Higgs Boson
What's next for 21st century physics?
The Universe Code
Is information fundamental?
Into the Unknown
What is the future of space exploration?
The Stuff of the Universe
Is materialism wrong?
Bang Goes Another Theory of the Universe
Are black holes a fantasy?
The Theory of Everything
Are we close to a final theory of the universe?
It's an Immaterial World
Do particles exist?
Pythagoras' Dream
Is reality mathematical?
Beyond the Standard Model
Tevong You | The first new particle after Higgs
Something and Nothing
Is there something rather than nothing?
Life, the Universe and Everything
Is reality beyond reach?
In a Parallel Universe
Are there many worlds?
A Goldilocks World
Is the universe finely tuned for life?
The Mathematics of Thought
How has mathematics changed philosophy?
It's an Immaterial World
Do particles exist?
Wonders of the Big Bang
Reconstructing the first moments of the universe
Uncovering Reality
Physics, truth and metaphor
Masters of the World
Is the universe mathematical?
Stephen Hawking and the Progress of Physics
Understanding the origin of the universe
Conjuring the Universe
The origins of the laws of nature | Peter Atkins
Quantum Effects in Gravity
Chiara Marletto | A new theory in physics
Demons Among Us
Are germs as imaginary as demons?
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On the cusp of the unnatural
Idealism, panpsychism and science
Antirealism and the analytic-continental split
The new world of metamodernism
Truth isn't correspondence with the facts
Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100
Science can't state all the facts
The Return of Metaphysics: Hegel vs Kant
The Return of Idealism: Russell vs Hegel
Common sense leads philosophy astray
Derrida and the trouble with metaphysics
Analytic philosophy has a language problem
Consciousness and higher spatial dimensions
The Return of Metaphysics: Russell and Realism
After Metaphysics: Rorty and American Pragmatism
Freedom from nature: the ultimate enslavement
How language distorts reality
Seeing is not perceiving
Wittgenstein was a metaphysician
There is no escaping metaphysics
Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed
After postmodernism
The possible worlds of Saul Kripke
World Philosophy Day: 13 questions for our century
Most truths cannot be expressed in language
21st century metaphysics: Leaving Fantasy Behind
Common sense is not a good guide to reality
Wittgenstein: science can’t tell us about God
Schopenhauer vs Hegel: progress or pessimism?
Spinoza Reborn