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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

One Step Closer To The Quantum Future

October 17, 2012 • This year's Nobel Prize in physics celebrates amazing experiments that have the potential to elucidate some of Nature's deepest secrets. They also and have the potential to lead us down the path to a world transformed by revolutionary quantum applications.

13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Which Fundamental Questions Are Most Fundamental?

October 15, 2012 • These days I am kinda, sorta, maybe coming to think that until we understand Quantum Mechanics we may not understand much at all.

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A Brief History Of Nothing

June 6, 2012 • Can we explain the origin of all things from nothing? First we need to understand what nothing means and how the human mind creates.

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How Uncertain Was Heisenberg?

June 5, 2012 • The Uncertainty Principle says that at some level the world turns fuzzy and the idea of properties as perfectly objective, knowable attributes gets inherently fuzzy.

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Quantum Weirdness And Being A Little Bit Pregnant: (Part 3)

May 22, 2012 • We simply can't imagine, as in draw a picture in our heads, what quantum mechanics is pointing us to in terms of a "picture" of reality. We don't have the mental machinery to create images in our heads that embrace the reality our experiments imply.

Quantum Weirdness: Part 2

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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Quantum Weirdness: Part 2

May 14, 2012 • We like to think that every event we see in the universe has a cause. We are wrong.

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Quantum Weirdness. Part 1

May 10, 2012 • Today I begin an ongoing series of little posts on what makes quantum mechanics so strange.

Physics Vs. Philosophy: Really?

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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Physics Vs. Philosophy: Really?

May 2, 2012 • Has physics done away with the need for philosophy and theology? While the debate rages on, we might wonder if it's the job of science to deal with final questions.

What Is Space? If Only We Knew

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What Is Space? If Only We Knew

November 2, 2011 • Did the universe originate from nothing? In a new NOVA series, Brian Greene will be describing some of the modern scientific views on space and time.

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