331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse
Certain features of our universe seem unnatural to us. These include “constants of nature” such as the cosmological constant and […]
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Physics
323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics
The search for a foundational theory of quantum mechanics that all physicists can agree on remains active. Over the last
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321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory
Quantum field theory is the basis for our most successful theories of fundamental physics. And yet, there are things we
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320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe
Our universe started out looking very simple: hot, dense, smooth, rapidly expanding. According to our best current model, it will
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316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper on the Big Bang and Before
Einstein’s general theory of relativity, plus some reasonable assumptions about the universe and what it’s made of, has a remarkable
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310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies
Cosmologists were, let us be honest, pretty stunned in 1998 when observations revealed that the universe is accelerating. There was
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302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn’t
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300 | Solo: Does Time Exist?
A new year, and a new centennial — 300 (regularly-numbered) episodes of Mindscape! Our tradition is to have a solo
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Holiday Message | Hits and Misses
It’s the end of the year, and time for our annual holiday break here at Mindscape. But as usual, we
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289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments
As an experimental facility, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva has been extraordinarily successful, discovering the Higgs boson
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