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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?
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
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?
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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