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George Ellis
George Ellis is a distinguished professor at University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored 'The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time' with physicist Stephen Hawking, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology.

George Ellis is a distinguished professor at University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored 'The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time' with physicist Stephen Hawking, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology.
George Ellis Videos

The Edge of Reality
Where mathematical metaphors meet reality

A universe of possibility
How reality emerges from chance

Why The World Exists
In Search of Parallel Universes

Beauty and the meaning of life
Will beauty lead science astray?

Minds, Machines and Magic
Is human creativity no more than mechanics?
George Ellis Articles
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The Chemistry of Freedom
Is free will an illusion?

Something and Nothing
Is there something rather than nothing?

Ultimate Proof
Is evidence an illusion?

Unexplained Events
Does everything have a cause and effect?

Science, Magic and the Inexplicable
After the Last Magician

The Hunt for Dark Energy
Seeking our hidden universe

How Science Tells Us Who We Are
George Ellis | Nature vs nurture

Science Under Siege
Is contemporary cosmology just fantasy?

The necessity and danger of belief
Does faith undermine knowledge?

The edge of the universe
Is the idea of infinity nonsense or a key insight?

Down the wormhole
The myth of wormholes

Beauty and the meaning of life
Will beauty lead science astray?

A universe of possibility
How reality emerges from chance
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Don't believe the dark matter hype

Hints of a new fundamental force

Is Einstein still right?

Physics needs an aesthetic revolution

Escaping cosmology’s failing paradigm

Physics forgets we are part of reality
We know how time will end, but not how it started

Reality is just a quantum wave function

The power of the unreal in scientific discovery

Rewriting the history of the Universe

The Beauty of Experiments Matters

The many meanings of Schrödinger's cat

Einstein and why the block universe is a mistake

The most complex thing in the universe

The new threat to the Standard Model

Symmetry is a Guide to Reality

We still don't understand the measurement problem

The Delusions of Cosmology

The multiverse under fire

Lee Smolin: the laws of the universe are changing

Dark Matter Doesn't Exist

The future is radically open

Black holes could challenge Relativity

Consciousness is irrelevant to Quantum Mechanics

Time is the increase of order, not disorder

Quantum mechanics and our part in creating reality

Quantum Theory and Common Sense: It's Complicated

The Big Bang didn't happen

James Webb images were made to look beautiful

Physics alone can't answer the big questions