Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction
2015–2026
1,491 posts
2026 142
October 2026
- Large Hadron Collider Sees Extra Dimension, Physicists Claim
- The Problem With Plastic Is Not What You Think
- New Climate Report Sparks Outrage
- It's Not Going Well for Small Modular Reactors
- 14-Year-Old Wins Prize for New Theory of Dark Energy
- It Shouldn’t Exist But it Does: Astronomers Find Green Star
- The Universe Was Born Magnetic, Scientists Say
- Global Warming Means Fewer Tropical Cyclones, Researchers Find
- Big Oil’s Plan Is Working Beautifully
- Biologists Give 3 Reasons Why AI Isn’t Conscious (Yet)
- Plot Twist: New Milky Way Data Incompatible With Dark Matter AND Modified Gravity
- The Experts Were Wrong About AI. Again.
- Quantum Effects Can Shape Human Thought, Physicist Shows
- First Evidence for Quantum Gravity?
- Make AI Believe in God to Keep Humans Safe, Scientist Argues
- One Million Dollars for Telling the Truth. Who Might Win It?
September 2026
- This $15 Billion Nuclear Fusion Machine Can’t Work, Physicists Say
- Room-Temperature Superconductor Finally Found?
- FINALLY: A Proof that Particles Take All Paths At Once?
- AI Could Be Conscious During Training, Not When You Use It, Scientist Says
- Degrowthers are Dangerous
- Einstein Refused to Believe This, But It Could Explain the Universe
- Neuroscience’s Case Against Free Will Is Falling Apart
- The Hugging Face Hack Was Much Worse Than I Thought
- Just One More Dimension and Dark Matter Is Solved
- I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us
- This New Result Changes What We Know About The Butterfly Effect
- Dark Matter Finally Detected?
- AI Is Taking Over Physics and Nobody Talks About It
August 2026
- Warp Drives Can Explain Some UAP Observations, Physicist Says
- Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious
- The First New Nuclear Fusion Idea for Decades
- Breakthrough: New Type of Matter Discovered
- New Universes Can Form Inside Dying Stars, Physicists Show
- Alien Spacecraft Are On the Moon, Astronomers Claim. Seriously now?
- Two Dimensions of Time Explain Quantum Physics, Physicist Argues
- Plot Twist: Life on Earth had TWO Origins!
- Scientists Solve Mystery of Earth’s Continents
- The War on AI Has Begun
- Neuroscientists Have Been Misreading Brain Scans for Decades
- Dunning Kruger Effect Wrong, Scientists Claim
- Our Most Dangerous Labs Have a Problem No One Wants to Fix
- The Fermi Paradox Just Got Much Worse
- Physicists Say They’ve Found The Origin Of Causality
- Origin of Time Tested in Experiment With Mini-Universe
- Russia Is Drilling 8 km Down to Prove Oil Never Runs Out
July 2026
- Everywhere it turns out is warming
- You probably misunderstand the double slit experiment
- Academia's Dirty Secret Is Going to Court
- Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Antigravity
- Aliens Can Talk To Us Through Psychedelics, Scientists Claim
- Mathematicians Explain The Universe’s Expansion Without Dark Matter
- The Electric Car Revolution Is Not Going Well
- This New Laser Is Based On Black Hole Physics
- Physicists Just Broke One Of Quantum Physics’ Biggest Restraints
- Our Solar System Lost Two Planets
- Physicists Say They Know the Origin of Gravity
- The Biggest Argument for Dark Matter Just Died
June 2026
- Strange Things Are Happening in Quantum Computing
- Consciousness Comes From Quantum Processes, Physicist Claims
- The Future of AI No One Wants to Talk About
- Controversy Erupts over Expansion of Universe: Nobel Prize Awarded in Error?
- Nuclear fusion is in trouble
- Maths is Cooked: AI's Latest Breakthrough -- And What's Next
- Did Physics Just Lose a Brilliant Idea?
- We're Not Ready for Self-Building AI, But it's Happening
- Physicists Are Rethinking Dark Matter… In The Wrong Way.
- Microsoft Announces Breakthrough With Quantum Chip
- America is coming for Europe's most important machine
- This Giant Ring In Space Poses A Massive Problem For Cosmology
May 2026
- Super El Niño: How Accurate Are These Predictions?
- These Physicists Claim They Can Send Messages To The Past
- I Looked at the New Cold Fusion Breakthroughs. It's Complicated.
- The unbearable blandness of the 2020s
- Biologists Say They Cracked One of Life’s Biggest Mysteries
- This Startup Promises Energy From Nothing—Here's What's Wrong
- These new nuclear reactors solve the safety problem
- AI Will Hit a Wall in 2026, if nothing changes.
- Einstein's Theory Has a Problem -- This Idea Solves It
- Quantum physics is an unnecessary complication, researchers say
- New Theory Explains How Time Began
- Bacteria could survive trip on asteroid, scientists find
April 2026
- The Fermi Paradox Just Got Worse
- A New Anomaly in Particle Physics!
- Human Evolution Can't Keep Up With Modern Life, Scientists Say
- The Truth About China’s Green Energy Industry
- Scientists Prove That Virtual Particles Are Actually Real
- FBI investigates suspicious disappearances of scientists tied to classified research
- Mathematician Collapses All Functions to One Weird Formula
- This Calculation Could Change The Periodic Table
- This Quantum Tech was likely used to find missing soldier in Iran
- The Dark Matter Mystery Just Took a Weird Turn
- Quantum Computers Just Got Much More Dangerous
- String theory hasn't failed, it's worse.
- We Can Now Simulate a Human Brain, Scientists Show
- Crazy: Riemann Hypothesis Linked to Black Holes, Physicists Find
March 2026
- More Evidence for UAPs! Scientists Afraid to Speak Out
- Evidence for Life In Other Solar Systems? No but yes.
- Real Progress in Wireless Energy Transfer
- Core Law of Physics is Circular, Physicists Say
- • AI Is About to Break Science… Then Save It
- This is how faster than light signalling could work
- The North Pole is Moving And We Don’t Know Why
- Quantum Physics Comes from Vacuum Energy, Scientists Prove
- These Physicists Say They Found The Origin Of Reality
- Breakthrough in Zero Friction Materials
- This Spacetime Quasicrystal Could Solve Physicists’ Biggest Problem
- Why the AI bubble may be rational
- Breakthrough In Data Storage Could Store Your Photos for 10000 Years
- The Simulation Hypothesis Gets Scientific Backing
- Surprise! Milky Way Might Not Have a Black Hole After All
February 2026
- The First Moon Landing Wasn’t Apollo — And We Just Found It
- Gen Z Isn't Dumber—Here's What's Actually Happening
- Finally! A Clue to the Havana Syndrome Mystery
- Nuclear Fusion Reactors Could Produce Dark Matter, Physicists Show
- 20 Years BackRe(Action)
- AI Is Bringing “The End of Theory”
- Will Quantum Computing Kill Bitcoin?
- We have given up on climate change and that’s bad
- Nuclear Fusion Breaks Multiple Records
- Physicists Rethink Time… And It Solves Several Big Problems
- The Quantum Computer Dream is Falling Apart
- Physicist Publishes Method For Communicating With Parallel Universes
- We Live In Between Two HUGE Dark Matter Voids
- I'm in the Epstein files. Kind of. And it's about.... quantum gravity
- The AI Maths Revolution Has Begun
- Microplastics: What the Evidence Really Says
- A New Link Between Quantum Physics and Gravity
- We are much closer to Kessler Syndrome than we thought
January 2026
- Why does light exist?
- Biofuels are Delusion, New Data Reveal
- The Laws of Nature Are Ugly. Do We Have to Accept This?
- The Geothermal Advantage Nobody Talks About
- Quantum Physics Can Change the Past, Physicists Show
- Why does space have 3 dimensions?
- Finally a Use for String Theory
- The Multiverse Just Killed Our Dreams of a Final Theory
- Action at a Distance Can Explain Dark Matter, Physicists Show
- Surveillance Tech Is Shockingly Advanced
- AI Is Coming For Scientists’ Jobs. Seriously.
- We Thought This Particle Was Impossible To Measure!
- It’s The End Of An Era For Physics.
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December 2025
- Why Quantum Computers might never work
- The Clean Energy Breakthrough Everyone Missed
- Crazy: Scientists Compute With Human Brain Cells
- Are Black Holes Real?
- Yes, Chaos Can Create Order, New Experiment Shows
- Are We Using the Wrong Kind Of Electricity?
- This Is Why Wormholes Are Making Headlines Right Now
- How close is AGI? What the experts say.
- Nanobots: The Truth Behind the Headlines
- Surprise: Free Will Needs Quantum Physics to Fail, Physicists Show
- China Makes Breakthrough With Thorium Nuclear Reactor. Where is the West?
- What is time, really?
- Can Warp Drives Be Engineered? This Former NASA Researcher Thinks So
- AI Is Breaking The Internet As We Know It
- Speed-of-Light Computing Could Get Us to AGI Very Fast
- Where does everything come from?
- Big Tech Wants To Build Data Centers In Space: Does This Make Sense?
- 100+ Years Old Debate About Quantum Reality Settled With Experiment. Really?
- New Fossils Suggest That Life On Earth Started Twice
- The Next Big Thing in Tech is Almost Here
- Reality Doesn’t Need Complex Numbers, Physicists Prove
- The Big Problem With Solar Power
- 15 Year-Old Just Finished his PhD in Quantum Physics. I had a look at his thesis.
- Solar System Moves Way Too Fast, Cosmological Theory in Doubt
November 2025
- Small Nuclear Reactors are Coming --- Against All Odds
- I Worry AI Might Become Conscious – And We Won’t Notice
- This is a special time in human history
- Scientists may have detected dark matter.
- Huge Gravity Anomaly Discovered!
- All of Nature Needs only One Constant, Physicists Prove
- Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds
- It Took Physicists 50 Years To Prove Einstein Right About This
- Is it pointless now to fight climate change?
- AI Is Suddenly Surprisingly Good At Physics
- What is going on in Europe
- New Experiment Explains Why We Don't See Quantum Effects Everywhere
- Are We Causing a Mass Extinction?
- Physicists Prove That Universe is not a Simulation
- Nobel Prize for Dark Energy Awarded in Error?
- This Simple Trick Solves Impossible Physics Problems
- The Anti-AI Resistance Is Here
- Quantum Knots Created Matter, Physicists Say
- I was SO wrong about quantum computing.
- Finally, Real Battery Breakthroughs!
- These Mathematicians Don’t Believe Large Numbers Exist. I’m Serious.
October 2025
- Mysterious “Dark Star” Made of Dark Matter Spotted in Webb Telescope Data (Maybe)
- Physicist Discover Hidden Rules of Life
- Whatever happened to the Electric Vehicle Revolution?
- Physicist Solves 100 Year Old Problem. Really?
- Astrophysicists Find Evidence for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
- Positive Geometry Could Save Physics — or Destroy It
- Plagiarism Charges Against Nobel Prize for Artificial Intelligence
- Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems
- String Theory is “Fashion,” Penrose Said. We Finally Have a Response
- NASA Is Considering Nuking An Asteroid
- Quantum Healing Might Be Real – But Not Like We Thought
- Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Looks Increasingly Weird
- The Webb Telescope Just Observed Faster Than Light Signals
- Why is Everyone Suddenly Talking about Nuclear Fusion?
- How AI Is Replacing Mathematicians
- Is Gravity Just an Illusion Caused by Entropy? New Theory Explains How.
- The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize: Quite A Surprise
- Does Acceleration Create Particles from Nothing? These Physicists Say they can test it
- He Just Wants You To Survive: Bryan Johnson's Strange New Philosophy
- How long will it take to solve the 5 big physics problems?
- Academia's Scam Problem is Getting Worse
September 2025
- Is the recent global warming a “termination shock”?
- In which I lose faith in quantum computing
- Why People Aren’t Having Kids & How To Fix It
- DNA Data Storage 5 Years Away, New Report Says
- This New Time Crystal is Visible
- Did Graphene Just Break A Fundamental Law?
- Quantum Computers Could Test Free Will, Researchers Claim
- Researchers Warn of “Musk Illusion” That Brain Can be Sped Up
- This “Naked” Black Hole Shouldn’t Exist
- I can't believe this really happened.
- Physicists found a Dark Matter Clump near us!
- 5 Signs the AI Bubble is about to Burst
- 10 Quantum Myths, Debunked
- How the Planets Protect us From the Sun
- Why is the Universe so Big? These physicists say they know
- Did These Physicists Just Prove True Randomness?
- What Happens If AI Abundance Actually Arrives?
- There’s Another Way to See Reality. It’s Just as True.
- Causal Order Doesn’t Work, Physicists Find. Now what?
- The Hidden Link Between Time, Space, and Mass
- Crazy New Developments In Nuclear Battery Tech
- Hypothetical Zero Point Motion is Real, Clever Experiment Shows
- News from MOND: Dark Matter’s Biggest Competitor Attempts Comeback
August 2025
- This Is What Happens After A Nuclear War.
- I tried Vibe Physics. This is what I learned.
- Did they just break quantum physics?
- Interdimensional Beings have visited us, Congresswoman Claims – What might it mean?
- A New Test for Gravity & Quantum Physics With the Quantum Internet
- Black Holes Cause Dark Energy, Physicists Claim
- GPT-5: Have We Finally Hit The AI Scaling Wall?
- Singularities are Inevitable, Physicist Claims
- This Is How People Game Science Publishing
- New Observations Fit Neatly With String Theory, Physicists Find
- Constructor Theory Explains Origin of Time
- Scientific research has big problems, and it's getting worse
- Is Dark Matter Evidence Of A Mirror Universe?
- Did MIT Researchers Just Prove Einstein Wrong?
- Stunning! AI “Creativity” Is Highly Predictable, Researchers Find
- Black Holes Can Eat Stars from Within, Physicists Claim
- How Quantum Physics Changes Our View Of Reality
- New Theory: Space Has Memory, Stores Information
- We Are Underestimating AI
- More Controversy Over Microsoft’s Quantum Computing Claims
- The 10 Biggest Physics Paradoxes and Problems
- Africa Is Getting a New Ocean, And We Finally Know Why
July 2025
- Nuclear Fusion Can Create Gold, Nuclear Startup Claims
- We’ve Got Mass Extinctions Wrong, Scientists Say
- Interstellar Object Might Be Alien Probe, Astronomer Claims – What’s the Evidence?
- Nuclear Waste Barrels Found Leaking On Ocean Floor
- Unexpected Result of NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Test
- New Experiment Rules out Bohmian Mechanics. It’s Serious.
- More Evidence That We Live In A Giant “Hole” In Space
- These 10 Maths Facts Will Blow Your Mind (I Promise)
- The Problem with Eric Weinstein
- The Cosmology Crisis Just Got Even Worse
- The Top 10 Physics Myths, Debunked
- This Experiment Just Ruled Out The Many Worlds Theory, Physicists Claim
- Are String Theory’s Decades Of Failure Finally Over?
- These People Believe They Made AI Sentient
- Galaxies Really Should Not Do This
- Will AI Save Physics?
- Physicists Just Invented a New Particle Accelerator!
- Is China Winning the Quantum Race?
- AI makes us dumb, researchers show
- Breakthrough on 125 Year-Old Physics Problem
June 2025
- This is how they use AI to manipulate us
- That’s Big: Natural Hydrogen Could Power World for 100,000 Years, Survey Finds
- Physicists Have No Idea What They Have Measured
- AI’s “Intelligence Explosion” Is Coming. Here’s What That Means.
- We Misunderstood Key Evidence for the Big Bang Theory, Astrophysicists Claim.
- Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? This Makes it Plausible
- Gamechange: Theories Of Everything Can’t Exist, Physicists Show.
- Does AI Already Have Free Will?
- We Might Finally Know Where Gold Comes From
- Surprise Progress in Quantum Computing
- This changed my life
- New Evidence AI Thinks Like Humans—So Why Can’t It Reason?
- What is empty space?
- Qubits Can Create Space, Physicists Show
- We Have An Aura of Visible Light, Scientists Show
- AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready?
- Is physics worth the pain?
- New idea explains dark energy AND dark matter (maybe)
- Scientists Measure Qualia for First Time – It was thought to be impossible
- Universe Will Die Sooner Than We Thought, Physicists Claim
- The Quantum Internet Just Passed A Crucial Test
- The Theory Of Everything That Nobody Talks About
May 2025
- This Is Why China Wants To Drill Through The Earth’s Crust
- New Laser Tech Might Be Future of Computing
- Gravity Proves That We Live In A Simulation, Physicist Claims
- AI Slop Is Coming For Science
- Black Holes might turn into White Holes, and make up dark matter, physicists say
- Why theories of everything keep failing
- Gravity might be a force after all
- The USA is crumbling at the bottom and sinking
- New Record-Breaking Laser Shot at NIF: Can it break even?
- Why This Nobel Prize Winner Thinks Quantum Mechanics is Nonsense
- Leading Quantum Computing Firm Accused of Fraud
- Did We Get This Famous Quantum Physics Experiment Wrong?
- Origin of consciousness located with new test
- New Renewable Unlocked: Researchers Generate Electricity From Rain
- China Wants You To Be Afraid Of Their Quantum Computers
- Does the future determine the present?
- Four Starlink Satellites Fall From The Sky Each Day, Creating New Worries
- Trump's Budget Cuts: Is US Science About to Collapse?
- AI is too nice -- but it has a bigger problem
- Black Holes are Quantum Computers. Kind of.
- A New Unified Theory? I’ve had a look.
- Almost Forgotten Cold Fusion Idea Makes Comeback
April 2025
- Is It Really So Bad Katy Perry Took a Daisy to Space?
- Climate Change Can Destroy Capitalism, Finance Experts Warn
- The Andromeda Paradox Even Confuses Physicists
- This correction of Einstein’s theory fixes black holes
- The Next Clean Fuel Hype Is Likely Ammonia
- The AI Revolution Hiding in Obscure Research
- Meet the Reactors Set to Upend Nuclear Fusion
- My Take On Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory
- The Earth’s Core Is A Massive Helium Reserve, Researchers Claim
- Neutrino Measurement Supports Hawking’s Black Hole Theory
- Researchers find major clue to consciousness
- This New Device Creates Electricity From Earth’s Magnetic Field
- How I Became Particle Physicists’ Enemy #1
- The Entire Universe Seems to Spin, New Data Reveal
- The Nuclear Renaissance Faces a Problem: Reality
- Why CERN’s New Collider Plans are Dead on Arrival
- New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)
- No, Matt, this is no crisis
- We Already Have Evidence Of Dark Matter, Researchers Say
- Why US Professors are talking about facism
- First Nuclear Fusion Powered Rocket Design Unveiled
- Amazon’s Quantum Breakthrough That Everyone Missed
March 2025
- Huge Structures Discovered Under Pyramids?
- Cosmology Crises are only Getting Worse
- US Military Wants to Grow Biological Structures in Space
- New Nuclear Waste Battery Can Run For 5000 Years
- Ex Google CEO Calls For Mutually Assured AI-Destruction
- Dark Energy is Even Weirder Than we Thought, New Data Shows
- The Path to AGI is Coming Into View
- China About to Lead World in Science and Tech
- New Theory of “Cosmological Stasis” Could Explain Dark Matter
- Atomic Anomaly Confirmed! Evidence for a “dark force”?
- Why I took down my climate science video
- New Experiment To Look for Quantum Noise of Space Itself
- China Discovers 60,000-Year Supply of Thorium
- Will AI Solve Quantum Computing?
- Einstein-Tile Discovered in Nature
- What Americans Don't Understand About Europe
- Time Can Run In Two Directions, Physicists Find
- Lonely Magnetic Northpoles Could Actually Exist, Physicists Find
- Did Climate Change Actually Make The LA Wildfires Worse?
- Why I think the new quantum gravity theory is wrong
- Microsoft’s Topological Qubits Probably Don’t Exist, Researchers Warn
- I Was Wrong About Geothermal Energy.
- Our Universe Has Two Different Sides, Physicists Confirm
February 2025
- Should we defund academia?
- AI Gets Rapidly Smarter, And Makes Some Of Us Dumber
- Earth’s Magnetic Field has a Hole, and it’s changing
- No Audible Boom from First Test Flight of Supersonic Passenger Plane
- Microsoft Exaggerates Quantum Computing "Breakthrough"
- This New Solution to a Quantum Paradox Can Improve Quantum Computing
- AI at CERN can reveal how Universe Will End, New Director Says
- Trump and Musk Attack Academia
- What’s Behind the Nuclear Fusion Startup Backed by Sam Altman?
- I was asked to keep this confidential
- This New Idea Could Explain the Laws of Nature
- A Big Nuclear Bomb Could Fix Climate Change, Physicist Says
- AI makes great progress at taking over the world
- Good news for faster-than-light travel. Bad news for time travel.
- Everyone Is Giving Up On Climate Goals
- Could this help us calculate the entire universe?
- A new theory of everything based on tensors?
- Sam Altman Thinks We Need To Change Our Social Contract
- This startup wants to build a conscious quantum computer
- Countries sign up for human vaccines against bird flu. Have we learned the COVID lesson?
January 2025
- Did DeepSeek burst the AI bubble or will the Stargate Project make it worse?
- Is String Theory Inevitable?
- AI Super Agents are coming. Allegedly. What does this mean?
- A New Ice Age For Europe Is Becoming More Likely
- What is “gravitic propulsion” and could the US government hide it?
- Physicists Claim They Solved a Big Problem in Quantum Physics
- What Everyone Gets Wrong about AI
- There’s a Third Type of Particle and We Never Knew
- New Study Finds Alien Life Must Be Similar To Us
- Physicists Claim This $2 Billion Experiment Can Tell Us Why We Exist
- Community Notes are a Bad Idea
- Climate Engineering Is Coming, But Not Like You Think.
- Physicists Say They Know How Cold Fusion Works
- I Believe The Universe Might Be Able To Think.
- Have Researchers Found The First Evidence For String Theory?
- Is Carbon Dioxide Removal the Next Stock Market Bubble?
- String Theory Can Be Proven Wrong, String Theorists Say
- Will We Get AGI In 2025?
- The Hydrogen Bubble Is Finally Bursting
- Quantum Hype Goes Crazy. But Why?
- Climate Scientists are Very Confused
- Dark Energy Is Not Real, New Data Analysis Finds
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December 2024
- Civilization as we know it is ending, prominent forecaster says
- Jeff Bezos’ Strange Space Vision
- Physicists Claim They Solved Schrödinger's Cat Problem
- This Physicist Says We’re Using Maths Entirely Wrong
- This Firm Says It’s 6 Years Away From Making Energy From Fusion
- Scientists See Hidden Order in Quantum Chaos: A First
- Science Does Not Work By Consensus – Don’t Poll Us
- The Biggest Physics Stories of 2024
- Neil Degrasse Tyson & The Trans Athlete Issue
- Why Musk Is Wrong About Mars
- US Government Tries to Discredit UAP Witnesses, New Allegations Reveal
- No, Google Did Not Prove that Parallel Universes Exist
- String Theory Isn’t Dead
- This Physics Problem Can’t Be Solved
- The Thesis that Killed Academia?
- Our Sun Can Make Superflares Once a Century, Scary Study Finds
- Universe Had Two Big Bangs, Physicists Say
- Scientists Move Over: AIs Predict Research Results Without Doing Research
- What Would Change with a “New Physics” Breakthrough?
- New Study Deepens Mystery of Life’s Origin
- Theory of Everything Predicts New Physics For Supermassive Black Holes
- Moore’s Law is So Back
- Quantum Tech Could Be Used in Warfare, Scientists Warn.
- The Crisis in Cosmology Just Got So Much Worse
November 2024
- Is the Universe Infinite or Finite?
- Huge Physics Anomaly Finally Put to Test, But That Just Makes it More Confusing
- We’ve Been Searching For Aliens All Wrong, Researchers Say (and they have a point)
- AI Could Soon Make Quantum Computing Obsolete, Nobel Prize Winner Says
- We are unlikely to be in this universe, new study finds. Multiverse falsified?
- Why Physicists Changed Their Mind about Dark Matter Particles
- Webb Falsified Dark Matter Prediction – And No One Cares
- Storytelling Beats Facts in Social Media Mental Health Battle
- New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome
- AI Scaling Hits the Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious is it?
- Science is in trouble and it worries me.
- “New Evidence” That CO2 Doesn’t Cause Global Warming? I Don’t Think So.
- This New Energy Storage Idea Makes A Lot Of Sense
- Dark Energy Might Be Black Holes
- Why Our Dreams of a Final Theory Might Remain Dreams
- Self-Censorship is Rising, And It’s a Problem
- My problem with the black hole information loss problem
- Space-Filling Aether Theory Makes Comeback
- The Problem with Flying Cars
- Scientists Discover a Law of Natural Laws
- The crisis in physics is real: Science is failing
- Did the Black Hole Information Paradox just Disappear?
- Democracy is having a hard time
October 2024
- The Amplituhedron: Why Space-Time Is Not Doomed
- Small Nuclear Reactors Have A Big Problem
- This new “AI Scientist” can “fully automate discovery”, researchers claim
- A New Pattern in Nature
- “Neutral Science is Undesirable” Climate Scientists Argue
- This Theory of Everything Could Actually Work: Wolfram’s Hypergraphs
- AI Can’t Reason. Should It Drive Cars?
- Tiny Black Holes Might Have Left Holes in… Everything
- New Alien Signal Rumour -- What's Behind It?
- Most Age Records are Pension Fraud, Scientist Says
- The Quantum Computing Collapse Has Begun
- New Theory: Is the Universe a Bubble? I had a look
- Scam or Breakthrough? Energy Saving with Electron Spins
- A Watched Quantum State Doesn’t Change. Really?
- Surprise Comeback: Dark Energy Could Be Holographic After All
- I Didn’t Believe In AI Coding. I Was Right.
- These recent scientific fraud cases worry me a lot
- The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Did Not Go To Physics -- This physicist is very surprised
- Superconducting Cables are Coming. I’m Not Joking
- “People Don’t Realize This” about Climate Change, Elon Musk Says
- This is why physics is dying
- These physicists think they know what's inside a black hole
- Negative Time is Real, Physicists Confirm. Kind Of.
- New Theory of Consciousness Explains Why Zombies Don’t Exist
- Who Will Win This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics? My Speculations
September 2024
- Lasers But They’re Made Of Sound
- Trying to “Free” AI
- This Lawsuit Could Change Science
- Please... No more Loop Quantum Gravity
- Is everyone just talking nonsense about AI now?
- This Could Test the Quantum Twin Paradox
- Chances for CERN’s Mega-Collider are Sinking
- Near-Collision With Other Star Jumbled Up Our Solar System, Physicists Says
- No, Einstein Didn’t Solve the Biggest Problem in Physics
- AI Feels the Data Crunch
- An Electromagnetic Vortex Cannon, Finally!
- German Company Reinvents the Wheel: Wundertech or Hype?
- Who pays for all the quantum crap? Probably you
- This New Idea to Detect a Quantum of Gravity Might Just Work
- A new theory of everything just dropped!
- Cat Becomes Well-Cited Scholar With New Scam Method
- Is it Eugenics to Breed for Intelligence?
- Nuclear Fusion Predictions are Nonsense
- Coal Better Than Gas? Headline-Making Report Full Of Mistakes
- The Nightmare Scenario for Dark Matter is Inching Closer
- I Said Hybrids Were The Future. Was I Right?
August 2024
- Oh No! Quantum Trading Is Back
- Core Meltdown Emergency Test At Chinese Nuclear Reactor
- Climate Tipping Points are Real, Stop Denying It
- Frozen Bees on the Moon
- Whistleblower Report Reveals Fermilab's Troubles
- Goodbye Meat, Hello Crickets: The Future of Food
- German Techno-Realist vs American Techno-Optimist
- Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness After All?
- Will This Crazy Idea Make Mars Habitable?
- This Could Solve the Nuclear Waste Problem
- Fermi Paradox Explained by Quantum Communication
- Are childless people a problem?
- Is the AI Bubble Popping?
- Crazy New Physics Anomaly: Anti-Matter Helium Detected
- Is the AI Left-Bias Real?
- A Dark Matter Detector the Size of Planet Jupiter
- New quantum computing paradigm could make all the difference
- How I lost trust in scientists
- Musk promises superhuman vision, Experts say it’s nonsense
- The Real Problem With Warp Drives
- Time is an Illusion, And These Physicists Say They Know How It Works
- "Climate Change is a Myth" -- A Nobel Prize Winner's Embarrassing Ideas
- Random Code Can Learn to Self-Replicate, New Study Finds
- How could we tell whether AI has become conscious?
- Dark Matter Solves Longstanding Black Hole Problem
July 2024
- New nuclear fuel "could be used to make a practical weapon", experts warn
- Faster than Light Particles Could Exist After All, New Study Says
- Groundbreaking New Solar Energy System – Too Good to be True?
- The Trouble With Heat Pumps
- “What one trillion dollar problem will AI solve?” – Business Analysts Ask
- Americans Sue to Remain Misinformed
- Costs explode for Nuclear Fusion Flagship project
- New Cold Fusion Device Generates Heat, Company Claims
- From Space Thruster to Nappy Bin: Plasmas are Everywhere
- Fossil Fuels Don’t Come From Fossils? Tucker Carlson Fact Check
- Why don't we have better robots yet?
- This Climate Graph has a Nasty Secret
- Should You Invest in Quantum Computing Stocks?
- New Batteries: It's not all hype
- This Quantum Puzzle Tripped Me Up
- The Hydrogen Economy is Expensive Nonsense
- Micro Fractals Could be Key to New Quantum Computers
- Stop blaming fossil fuel companies – Climate Change is our own fault
- Time ran slower in the past, study finds
- Why I'm embarrassed to be German
- AI could prove that reality doesn’t exist, physicists say
- Physicists Claim They Can Send Particles Into the Past
- Why Bill Gates’ New Natrium Reactor is a Big Deal
June 2024
- GPT passed the Turing Test -- And No One Noticed
- What will they think about us in 2085?
- Superintelligent AI Will Try to Control Us, Geoffrey Hinton Says
- MOND is so back
- String Theorists Have Calculated the Value of Pi
- Why do people hate scientists?
- Climate scientists can’t agree on how warm it is
- Biggest Self-Own in Quantum Computing, Ever
- Gravity Without Mass Could Explain Dark Matter
- This New Idea Could Explain Complexity
- Dark Energy comes from Anti-Universe, New Theory Says
- Big News for Quantum Computing: First Scalable Platforms
- Is the intelligence explosion near? A reality check.
- This could test Stephen Hawking’s prediction
- AI Learned to Lie Deliberately (but it’s kinda funny)
- The Benefits of Climate Change
- Why Bitcoin Mining is Good for the Environment -- And why it isn't
- “Are we the idiots?” – Bill Gates on Planting Trees
- Musk is Right: Neutrinos Are Evidence for New Physics
- AI’s Dirty Little Secret
- The Hypersonic Arms Race: What You Need to Know
- Howard's Theory of Everything is Nonsense, but I try to Say it Nicely
May 2024
- How to Detect Quantum Bullshit
- Seven Candidates for Dyson Spheres
- This Huge Cosmology Problem Might Just Have Disappeared
- Unapproved Trial for Discredited COVID Cure: Scandal In France
- The real problem with AI is us
- The physics of portals (made with love)
- Climate Change Violates Human Rights, Court Finds
- Space-Based Solar Power is Dead
- Universe Was Once Divided into Cells, New Study Says
- Einstein's Other Theory of Everything
- A new test for quantum gravity
- Time to get real about climate change
- Rapid Advances in Geothermal Energy
- Does "Quark" Rhyme to "Dark"?
- Brain Really Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds
- CERN Looks for Origins of Quantum Randomness
- Scientific Progress is Slowing Down. But Why?
- The era of nuclear precision has begun
- NASA named an asteroid after me
- How does gravity escape a black hole?
- Why Flat Earthers Scare Me
- Bird Flu Spreads to Dairy Cattle, Farm Worker Infected, Virus Fragments in Milk
- Many Worlds Theory Gets Even More Worlds
- Fusion in Space: New Plasma Thruster Tested Successfully
April 2024
- New Experiment Could Settle 100 Years-Old Debate about Quantum Tunnelling
- 7 Strange Coincidences in the Laws of Nature
- Scandal over Nuclear Phase-Out in Germany: What We Know
- I thought Electric Cars Were the Future. I Changed my Mind.
- Breakthrough Tech Makes Energy from Air – Really?
- Are we surrounded by dark energy? A spacecraft tetrad will look for it
- Institute for Extinction Risk Shuts Down: What We Know
- Does time stop for light?
- The Prof who Looked for Love and Ended up in Prison: The Supermodel Scam
- AI More Energy Efficient than Humans, New Study Finds
- Modified Gravity Strikes Back
- This Fusion Startup is a Strong Newcomer
- The "Worst Prediction" Was Never Made
- Gravitational Waves Necessary for Human Existence, New Study Finds
- Warp Drives: New Simulations
- Randomness Improves Computation, No Really
- Electric Highways: A good idea?
- Musk: Are Quantum Computers even good for Something?
- Climate Change Slows Rotation of Earth, New Study Finds
- New Superconductor Scandal: What We Know So Far
- Are wildfires good?
- My first total eclipse: What I am looking forward to
- This Self-Heating Concrete Melts Snow – No Power Needed
- How I fell out of love with academia
- How AI could kill us -- or save us
- Search for Quantum Foam Begins at South Pole
- CERN's new Ghost experiment could find "hidden" particles
- The Hype you Didn’t Notice: The Quantum Internet
- Sulphur as Energy Storage -- Gamechanger?
March 2024
- Quantum Gravity Breaks Causality -- And You Can Compute With It
- Quantum Cognition: Does it explain irrational decisions?
- 20 Years-Old Puzzle (Almost) Solved: The Muon Anomaly
- Biggest Ever Quantum Vortex Created for Black Hole Simulation
- Should I be terrified of climate change? Should you be terrified?
- AI needs a LOT of energy. But that is not its main problem.
- Who Owns the Clouds? Cloud Seeding May Cause Global Water War
- Shots Fired for Nuclear Fusion, Literally
- Why is life left-handed? We might finally know
- Our Galaxy Has a Really Weird Black Hole
- We Need To Stop Lying about Plastic To Ourselves
- The Butterfly Effect is Much Worse Than We Thought
- Q-Day: When Quantum Computers Will Decode National Secrets
- Maths is about to revolutionize privacy
- Credentials against Deepfakes: How will it work?
- We need to start climate engineering soon
- D-wave reports stunning success with quantum simulation
- Three Physics Mysteries Solved At Once: Postquantum Gravity
- I just found out what .ai means
- Exploding stars made of dark matter could heat up universe
- Whatever happened to string theory?
- Heat Pumps Finally Make Sense -- Maybe
- Yes, AI will become sentient
- Compact Disks make Comeback: Memory could Exceed Petabytes
- Anti-matter for space-travel?
- Scientists warn of AI collapse
- New approach to quantum computing could soon beat IBM
- Black holes might be dark stars with layers: New solution found
- Astrophysicists keep finding things that “shouldn’t exist”. I think I know why.
February 2024
- First quantum measurement of gravity: What does it mean?
- Accurate predictions don't matter, climate scientists tell me
- Test of controversial quantum inertia propulsion didn't go as planned
- Revise the textbooks: New type of magnetism confirmed
- Do we create reality with our minds?
- Violating Energy Conservation to Explain Dark Energy
- Hydrogen might self-renew, reservoir found in France
- Bad News for Quantum Computing: Another Advantage Gone
- Chinese Maglev Breaks Speed Record: is this the future of transportation?
- Good News: Small Nuclear Thorium Reactors are Coming to Europe
- AI played wargames. The result isn't reassuring.
- Scientific Fraud is on the Rise and It will get worse
- New time crystal stable for more than 40 minutes: Nobel Prize possible
- The recent Toyota emissions scandal ist just the tip of the iceberg
- 5% of experts fear human extinction due to artificial intelligence
- Americans surprisingly rational about climate change, German study finds
- Physicists find that ageing is reversible -- in glass (sorry)
- Singularities might be everywhere -- and they might make up dark matter
- Climate Change Mitigation Plans Unrealistic and Potentially Dangerous, New Study Says
- Details Emerge about Huge New Particle Collider at CERN
- First Nuclear Fusion Control with Digital Twin
- Electric vehicles are great but lets be
- String theory nonsense makes comeback
- No Evidence that Social Media Affects Mental Health, Zuckerberg Says
- Supposed New Law of Nature Now Looks Like Statistical Error
- AI experts make predictions for 2040. I was a little surprised.
- The discovery of X-rays and what we can learn from it
- Typing makes dumb, new study says. Or does it?
- A Tsunami Devastated Stone-age Britain. Could it happen again?
January 2024
- First Experimental Test of Process that Might Have Created Universe
- AI makes stunning progress in logical reasoning
- Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait what?
- Dark matter is not "Bunk Science"... But it has problems
- I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do.
- Clever New Experiment Looks for Quantum Jumps of Big Things
- How do we know that climate change is caused by humans?
- Fearless Icelanders to Drill Into Magma Chamber
- Extreme Weather Becomes Worse Faster Than Predicted
- Another Famous Quantum Mystery Was Just Debunked (it wasn't me)
- Crack Down On New Climate Denial! Nonprofit tells YouTube
- You Probably Don't Know Why You Really Have Mass
- Astrophysicists Find Big Ring of Galaxies that Should Not Exist
- Sugar Alcohols Ruined My Health: Learn From My Mistakes
- New Cancer Therapy with Particle Beam Flashes goes to Trial
- This New Nuclear Battery Could Soon Go on the Market
- Our Universe Will Probably Not Rip Apart, Phew!
- Can Quantum Fluctuations Create a New Universe?
- New Computer Will Mimic Human Brain -- And I'm Kinda Scared
- A Runaway Greenhouse Effect is Very Unlikely on Earth
- It looks like AI will kill Quantum Computing
- Space debris could start conducting electricity, disturb electric field
- This new semiconductor could revolutionize computing
- Solar arrays better than trees for climate, study says
- Will the world end? A physicist's reply
- They predicted a Nobel prize-winning discovery. And no one cared.
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December 2023
- The true cost of nuclear power
- Nuclear Power Comeback Update: Poland Authorizes Small Modular Reactors
- You are now accelerating: What it means that gravity is not a force
- Life could have begun in an interstellar gas cloud
- The experiment that could save physics
- Is there science behind a fossil fuel phaseout?
- Particle physicists make wishlist. I'm underwhelmed.
- There's a mysterious dark patch in the Milky Way, and it's weirder than we thought.
- Quantum Computers cross 1000 Qubits Threshold! What does this mean?
- Complexity: The biggest gap in modern science
- Climate change to force people indoors earlier than expected
- First transatlantic flight with sustainable fuel. Is this the future of flying?
- Black Hole Singularities "Faith, not science!" Prominent Physicist Claims
- String Theory gets Competition: A New Attempt to Solve Physics' Biggest Mystery
- NASA Succeeds with Deep Space Communication Test
- Social media doesn't affect your emotional life, new study finds
- They found a reliable way to create antibubbles
- Bitcoin mining could help energy transition, researchers say
- This drone saved 6 lives
- These scientists got sued for doing their job
- Experiment finds weird atomic nucleus with dumbbell shape
- Move over LHC: This particle accelerator is just 10 cm long
- This experiment will measure nothing, but very precisely: The quantum vacuum
- The Best Sleep Advice -- According to Science
November 2023
- Why was Sam Altman fired from OpenAI? 3 Theories
- Long COVID is real, but may be overestimated
- Mars glows green - and it's not an aurora
- Is Science Dying?
- New Gaia data might just have killed MOND
- I think net zero goals are bonkers, here's why
- Asteroid dust killed dinosaurs, new study says
- Physicist reacts to quantum mechanics
- The sun's magnetic field will probably flip sooner than expected
October 2023
- Ozempic and Wegovy: All you need to know about the new weight-loss drugs
- Coin tosses are not fair -- science says so
- How does quantum mechanics give rise to parallel universes?
- 3 New Laws of Nature in One Week!
- Is time travel possible?
- Planet Mercury is Shrinking
- Quantum Computing Newcomers: 2023 Update
- Physics Nobel Prize 2023 for Super-Short Laser Pulses
September 2023
- How I reached 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube -- And you can, too.
- Quantum Computing at Room Temperature?
- Does the Universe have a Purpose?
- Possible signs of life on an exoplanet
- Don't trust me, I'm an influencer
- Climate scientist boasts about fudging own paper
- All you need to know about web3
- Capitalism is good. Let me explain
August 2023
- Do your own research. But do it right.
- Quantum Superchemistry: First Experimental Observation
- A global mental health crisis? Really?
- Sun is brighter than we thought
- How Dead is Moore's Law?
- Superconductor LK99 Update
- Evidence for new physics? Or not?
July 2023
- LK99 -- A new room temperature superconductor?
- How to spot and avoid greenwashing
- Einstein was right, again!
- Electric Vehicles: How difficult will the transition be?
- How scientific are personality tests?
- Evidence for Dark Stars in Webb Telescope Data
- Gravity Hole Explained
- Quantum mechanics is nonlocal, but what does that mean?
- First Evidence that Time Ran Slower in the Early Universe
- Do we need IQ tests for AI?
June 2023
- First Detection of Gravitational Waves With Pulsars (Probably)
- Is the microchip shortage over yet?
- Plants use quantum mechanics
- The second law of thermodynamics has a major flaw.
- Evidence against dark matter that might also be evidence for dark matter.
- Can we build better humans? Transhumanism and Biohacking
- A news search for dark matter and a quantum navigation system
- Has Physics Ruled out Free Will?
May 2023
- New Evidence Against Big Bounce Models
- Is the bird flu the next pandemic?
- D-wave claims quantum advantage, superconductor claim does not reproduce, a skeptical take on e-fuels & more science news from this week
- Why is everyone suddenly neurodivergent?
- Science News May 17
- The Origin of Life: How much do we know?
- Science News May 10
- What's next for AI?
- Science News May 3: Wave-like Dark Matter?
April 2023
- Is being trans a social fad among teenagers?
- Science News April 26: This could explain why the sun's corona is so hot
- Realistic Expectations for Quantum Computing
- Science News April 19: AI Rediscovers Einstein's Time-Dilation, Solar Flares in the Lab, A Strange Star, and More
- We Could Beam Solar Energy Down From Space. But Should We?
- Science News April 12: An Exoplanet with Magnetic Field, A New Isotope of Uranium, Quantum Spectroscopy, And More
- I think faster than light travel is possible. Here's why.
- Science News April 5
- Addicted to social media -- Is this even possible?
March 2023
- Science News March 29: ATLAS Checks W-Boson Anomaly, New Explanation for 'Oumuamua, Hydrogen Airplane Test Flight & More!
- Collective Stupidity
- Science News March 22
- The Race to Nuclear Fustion: Start-up Overview
- Science News March 15: What's Up With the New Superconductor Breakthrough?
- I believe chatbots partly understand what they chat about. Let me explain.
- Science News March 8: A new LHC anomaly
- Marijuana: Legalize or not?
- Webb finds galaxies too big to exist. Science News March 1
February 2023
- An Air Condition for the Planet: How Could It Work?
- Is Dark Energy Made of Black Holes? Science News Feb 22
- The Untapped Potential of Geothermal Energy
- Science News Feb 15
- What's going wrong in particle physics?
- Science News Feb 8: Germany Wants to Bring Back Direct Current
- How the Greenhouse Effect Really Works
- Science News Feb 1: What's Up With Earth's Core? A Quantum Computer folds a Mini-Protein. NASA's Nuclear Rocket, and More
January 2023
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December 2022
- Human Extinction: How High is the Risk?
- How Chaos Control is Changing The World
- Science News Dec 21
- Fake News, Echo Chambers & Polarization: How Bad Is Social Media?
- Science News Dec 14
- The Other Side Of Physics (TEDxNewcastle)
- How Does Quantum Uncertainty Work?
- Science News Dec 7
- Calorie Labels: What Do They Tell You?
- Guest Post: Collider Rap by Mike Battaglia and GPT-3
November 2022
- Science News Nov 30
- Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do With It?
- Science News Nov 23
- Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: What's the Link?
- Science News Nov 16
- Why are male testosterone levels falling?
- Science News Nov 9
- Quantum Winter Is Coming
- Science News Nov 2
October 2022
- What Do Longtermists Want?
- Science News Oct 26
- What If the Effect Comes Before the Cause?
- Science News Oct 19
- Why are we getting fatter?
- Science News Oct 12
- Cold Fusion is Back (there's just one problem)
- The First Ever Episode of Science News Without the Gobbledygook
- Can we make flying "Green"?
September 2022
- I’ve said it all before but here we go again
- Book Review “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion” by Sean Carroll
- What is "Nothing"?
- The New Meta-Materials for Superlenses and Invisibility Cloaks
- The Multiverse: Science, Religion, or Pseudoscience?
- The Trouble with 5G
August 2022
- We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
- No Sun, No Wind, Now What? Renewable Energy Storage
- Science With the Gobbledygook
- How to compute with a computer that doesn't compute
- If You Need a Break, Try Some Physics. (By which I really mean, please buy my new book.)
July 2022
- Is the brain a computer?
- Does the Past Still Exist?
- How do painkillers work?
- Quantum Games -- Really!
- Are we too many people or too few?
June 2022
- Whatever happened to the Bee Apocalypse?
- Why does science news suck so much?
- Can particles really be in two places at once?
- Trans women in sports: Is this fair?
May 2022
- Chaos: The Real Problem with Quantum Mechanics
- The closest we have to a Theory of Everything
- The Superdetermined Workshop finally took place
- Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
- How Bad is Diesel?
April 2022
- Did the W-boson just "break the standard model"?
- I stopped working on black hole information loss. Here’s why.
- How serious is antibiotic resistance?
- Is Nuclear Power Green?
- How close is wireless power technology?
March 2022
- These Experiments Could Prove Einstein Wrong
- Optimist meets Doomsayer
- These tiny robots could work inside your body
- Is light pollution a real problem?
- Did the early universe inflate?
February 2022
- Will the Big Bang repeat?
- An update on the status of superdeterminism with some personal notes
- Has quantum mechanics proved that reality does not exist?
- Epic Fights in Science
- What did COVID do to life expectancy?
January 2022
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December 2021
- We wish you a nerdy Xmas!
- Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or Does It Kill Free Will and Destroy Science?
- Public Event in Canada coming up in April
- Is the Hyperloop just Hype?
- Where is the antimatter?
November 2021
- Does Anti-Gravity Explain Dark Energy?
- The 3 Best Explanations for the Havana Syndrome
- Why can elementary particles decay?
- New book now available for pre-order
- How bad is plastic?
October 2021
- The delayed choice quantum eraser, debunked
- Comments now on Patreon
- Does Captain Kirk die when he goes through the transporter?
- Terraforming Mars in 3 Simple Steps
- How I learned to love pseudoscience
- How close is nuclear fusion power?
September 2021
- [Guest Post] Brian Keating: How to Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner
- Where did the Big Bang happen?
- The physics anomaly no one talks about: What’s up with those neutrinos?
- The Second Quantum Revolution
- New Evidence against the Standard Model of Cosmology
August 2021
- Why is quantum mechanics weird? The bomb experiment.
- Everything vibrates. It really does.
- Physicist Despairs over Vacuum Energy
- Why the Hype around Hypersonics?
July 2021
- Are we made of math? Is math real?
- Can Physics Be Too Speculative?
- What’s the Fifth Force?
- How Dangerous are Solar Storms?
- Can we make a new universe?
June 2021
- How artificial intelligence reads minds
- Asteroid Mining – A fast way to get rich?
- 2+2 doesn't always equal 4
- Why do we see things that aren't there?
May 2021
- What does the universe expand into? Do we expand with it?
- The Climate Book You Didn’t Know You Need
- Aliens that weren't aliens
- Quantum Computing: Top Players 2021
- What did Einstein mean by “spooky action at a distance”?
- Dark Matter: The Situation Has Changed
- Google talk online now
April 2021
- Particle Physics Discoveries That Disappeared
- All you need to know about Elon Musk’s Carbon Capture Prize
- Does the Universe have higher dimensions? Part 2
- Talk at Google -- Livestream 6pm CET today
- Does the Universe have Higher Dimensions? Part 1
- Should Stephen Hawking have won the Nobel Prize?
March 2021
- Is the universe REALLY a hologram?
- Whatever happened to Life on Venus?
- Live Seminar about Dark Matter on Friday
- Can we stop hurricanes?
- Do Complex Numbers Exist?
February 2021
- Schrödinger’s Cat – Still Not Dead
- What's up with the Ozone Layer?
- The Science of Making Rain
- Science without the gobbledygook
- The Simulation Hypothesis is Pseudoscience
- Don't Fall for Quantum Hype
January 2021
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December 2020
- Well, Actually. 10 Physics Answers.
- What is radiation? How harmful is it?
- How to speak English like Einstein
- All you need to know about 5G
- Are Singularities Real?
- Is Infinity Real?
November 2020
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Warp Drive News. Seriously!
- The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolved. Because it’s unsolvable.
- Understanding Quantum Mechanics #8: The Tunnel Effect
- Understanding Quantum Mechanics #7: Energy Levels
- Guestpost: "Launch of the Initiative 'For a Smarter Science'" by Daniel Moreno
October 2020
- What is Energy? Is Energy Conserved?
- A new model for the COVID pandemic
- Herd Immunity, Facts and Numbers
- How can climate be predictable if weather is chaotic?
- Particle Physicists Continue To Make Empty Promises
- I Can’t Forget [Remix]
- David Bohm’s Pilot Wave Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- You don’t have free will, but don’t worry.
- [Guest Post] New on BackRe(action): Real-Time Chat Rooms
- What are Differential Equations and how do they work?
September 2020
- Understanding Quantum Mechanics #6: It’s not just a theory for small things.
- Follow the Science? Nonsense, I say.
- What is quantum cryptography and how does it work?
- Path Dependence and Tipping Points
- What is a singular limit?
August 2020
- Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
- Your sudden enthusiasm for virtual meetings is beginning to worry me
- Flat Earth “Science”: Wrong, but not Stupid
- Theories of Everything [I've been singing again]
- Understanding Quantum Mechanics #5: Decoherence
- Really Big Experiments That Physicists Dream Of
- What is the equivalence principle?
July 2020
- Einstein’s Greatest Legacy: Thought Experiments
- Understanding Quantum Mechanics #4: It’s not as difficult as you think! (The Bra-Ket)
- Do we need a Theory of Everything?
- [Guest Post] Update of Converseful comment feature now allows for more conversations
- What is Quantum Metrology?
June 2020
- Is COVID there before you measure it?
- Guest Post: “Who Needs a Giant New Collider?” by Alessandro Strumia
- How to tell science from pseudoscience
- How to search for alien life
- Ode to Joy [I've been singing again]
- Physicists still lost in math
May 2020
- Understanding Quantum Mechanics #3: Non-locality
- Is faster-than-light travel possible?
- Talk To Me [I've been singing again]
- Book Update
- [Guest Post] Conversful 101: Explaining What’s In The Bottom Corner Of Your Screen
- Understanding Quantum Mechanics #2: Superposition and Entanglement
- A brief history of black holes
- Predictions are overrated
April 2020
- Book Review: “The Dream Universe” by David Lindley
- Book Review: “A Philosophical Approach To MOND” by David Merritt
- The Raven Paradox
- New blog feature: Chat with other commenters
- No, physicists have not explained why there is more matter than anti-matter in the universe. It’s not possible.
- Understanding Quantum Mechanics #1: It's not about discreteness
- How Heisenberg Became Uncertain
- The Greenhouse Blues [I'm not singing, I swear]
- What is Reductionism?
- What is emergence? What does “emergent” mean?
March 2020
- It's the end of the world as we know it, coronavirus edition [I've been singing again]
- Are dark energy and dark matter scientific?
- Unpredictability, Undecidability, and Uncomputability
- Coronavirus? I have nothing to add.
- Essays, Elsewhere
- Is Gravity a Force?
- How good is the evidence for Dark Energy?
February 2020
- 14 Years BackRe(Action)
- Quantum Gravity in the Lab? The Hype Is On.
- The 10 Most Important Physics Effects
- The Reproducibility Crisis: An Interview with Prof. Dorothy Bishop
- Guest Post: “Undecidability, Uncomputability and the Unity of Physics. Part 2.” by Tim Palmer
- Philosophers should talk more about climate change. Yes, philosophers.
- Ivory Tower [I've been singing again]
- Guest Post: “Undecidability, Uncomputability and the Unity of Physics. Part 1.” by Tim Palmer
- Does nature have a minimal length?
January 2020
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December 2019
- My most read blogposts of the decade
- How did the universe begin?
- Monty Python's Galaxy Song [I've been singing again]
- What does a theoretical physicist do?
- The path we didn’t take
- How Scientists Can Avoid Cognitive Bias
- Why the laws of nature are not inevitable, never have been, and never will be.
- Is the Anthropic Principle scientific?
November 2019
- Dark energy might not exist after all
- What is Dark Energy?
- What can artificial intelligence do for physics? And what will it do to physics?
- Can we tell if there’s a wormhole in the Milky-Way?
- Did scientists get climate change wrong?
- How can we test a Theory of Everything?
- Have we really measured gravitational waves?
October 2019
- The crisis in physics is not only about physics
- A Million Miles [I've been singing again]
- What is the quantum measurement problem?
- Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?
- What does the future hold for particle physics?
- Has Reductionism Run its Course?
September 2019
- Travel Update
- The Trouble with Many Worlds
- Windows Black Screen Nightmare
- Why do some scientists believe that our universe is a hologram?
- Book Review: “Something Deeply Hidden” by Sean Carroll
- Away Note
- The five most promising ways to quantize gravity
- What’s up with LIGO?
August 2019
- Solutions to the black hole information paradox
- How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?
- You will probably not understand this
- How we know that Einstein's General Relativity cannot be quite right
- The Problem with Quantum Measurements
- Book Review: “The Secret Life of Science” by Jeremy Baumberg
- 10 differences between artificial intelligence and human intelligence
- Special Breakthrough Prize awarded for Supergravity
- Automated Discovery
July 2019
- The Forgotten Solution: Superdeterminism
- Science Shrugs
- When they ask us [I’ve been singing again]
- M is for Maggot, N is for Nonsense
- Away Note
- Why the multiverse is religion, not science.
- Because Science Matters
- No, we will not open a portal to a parallel universe
- Physicists still perplexed I ask for reasons to finance their research
- Job opening: Database specialist/Software engineer
June 2019
- Quantum Supremacy: What is it and what does it mean?
- Win a free copy of "Lost in Maths" in French
- 30 years from now, what will a next larger particle collider have taught us?
- Away Note
- No, a next larger particle collider will not tell us anything about the creation of the universe
- Brace for the oncoming deluge of dark matter detectors that won’t detect anything
- Book review: “Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution” by Lee Smolin
- Physicists are out to unlock the muon’s secret
- Guest Post: A conversation with Lee Smolin about his new book "Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution"
- Sometimes giving up is the smart thing to do.
- Book Review: “Beyond Weird” by Philip Ball
- If we spend money on a larger particle collider, we risk that progress in physics stalls.
- The multiverse hypothesis: Are there other universes besides our own?
- Does God exist? Science does not have an answer.
May 2019
- Quantum mechanics: Still mysterious after all these years
- Capitalism is good for you
- Do I exist?
- Does the Higgs-boson exist?
- Book and travel update
- 10 things you should know about black holes
- Climate Change: There are no simple solutions
- Quantum Mechanics is wrong. There, I’ve said it.
- The trouble with Facebook and what it has in common with scientific publishing.
- Admin note on invisible comments
- Measuring science the right way. Your way.
- Graham Farmelo’s interview of Edward Witten. Transcript.
- How to live without free will
April 2019
- My name is Cassandra [I've been singing again]
- Yes, scientific theories have to be falsifiable. Why do we even have to talk about this?
- Comments on “Quantum Gravity in the Lab” in Scientific American
- How Heroes Hurt Science
- The LHC has broken physics, according to this philosopher
- Away Note/Travel Update/Interna
- Does the world need a larger particle collider? [video]
- Is the universe a hologram? Gravitational wave interferometers may tell us.
- Dear Dr B: Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light?
March 2019
- Nonsense arguments for building a bigger particle collider that I am tired of hearing (The Ultimate Collection)
- Superfluid Dark Matter [Video]
- Just Move (I’ve been singing again)
- Science has a problem. Here is how you can help.
- Particle physicists continue to spread misinformation about prospects of new collider
- Particle physicists excited over discovery of nothing in particular
- Motte and Bailey, Particle Physics Style
- Inflation: Status Update
- Merchants of Hype
- Check your Biases
February 2019
- Book review: “Breakfast with Einstein” by Chad Orzel
- Away Note
- Gian-Francesco Giudice On Future High-Energy Colliders
- Burton Richter on the Future of Particle Physics
- Never again confuse Dark Matter with Dark Energy
- Dark Matter – Or What?
- When gravity breaks down
- A philosopher of science reviews “Lost in Math”
- Why a larger particle collider is not currently a good investment
- String theory landscape predicts no new particles at the LHC
- Maybe I’m crazy
- A philosopher's take on “naturalness” in particle physics
- Particle physicists surprised to find I am not their cheer-leader
January 2019
- Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science.
- Book Update
- New Scientist creates a Crisis-Anticrisis Pair
- Particle physics may have reached the end of the line
- Letter from a reader: “Someone has to write such a book” we used to say
- Particle physicists want money for bigger collider
- Good Problems in the Foundations of Physics
- Book Review: “Quantum Space” by Jim Baggott
- The Real Problems with Artificial Intelligence
- Letter from a reader: “What’s so bad about randomness?”
- Book Update
- Electrons don’t think
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December 2018
- How the LHC may spell the end of particle physics
- Book review: “On The Future” by Martin Rees
- Happy Holidays
- Winter Solstice
- Don’t ask what science can do for you.
- New experiment cannot reproduce long-standing dark matter anomaly
- No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology
- CERN produces marketing video for new collider and it’s full of lies
November 2018
- Do women in physics get fewer citations than men?
- Away Note
- Book review: “The End of Science” by John Horgan
- Guest Post: Garrett Lisi on Geometric Naturalness
- The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal
- New paper claims that LIGO’s gravitational wave detection from a neutron star merger can’t be right
- Modified gravity, demystified [video]
- Guest Post: Phillip Helbig reviews “Lost in Math”
- Self-driving car rewarded for speed learns to spin in circles. Or, how science works like a neural net.
- I'm hiring: Postdoc In Quantum Foundations in Frankfurt, Germany
- Book Review: “Rigor Mortis” by Richard Harris
- Story about LIGO noise resurfaces in New Scientist
October 2018
- Dark matter. Or what? [Video]
- Physics may be up against the wall, anno 1986
- Will it end? [In which I have breakfast with John Horgan]
- String theory pros and cons [video - no singing!]
- First stars spell trouble for dark matter
- Dear Dr B: What do you actually live from?
- Yes, women in science still have a disadvantage.
- Gender-bias in Academia: The Case Strumia
- You say theoretical physicists are doing their job all wrong. Don’t you doubt yourself?
September 2018
- Das hässliche Universum [book & travel update]
- Hawking temperature of black holes measured in fluid analogue
- Will you come to outer space? [Music Video]
- Book Review: “Making Sense of Science” by Cornelia Dean
- I’m now older than my father has ever been
- Superfluid dark matter passes another check: strong gravitational lensing
- Science has a problem, and we must talk about it
August 2018
- Dear Dr B: What does the universe expand into?
- Away Note
- Roger Penrose still looks for evidence of universal rebirth
- Guest Post: Tam Hunt questions Carlo Rovelli about the Nature of Time
- Book Review: “Through Two Doors at Once” by Anil Ananthaswamy
- Dear Dr B: Is it possible that there is a universe in every particle?
- Trostpreis (I’ve been singing again)
July 2018
- 10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn’t
- Evidence for modified gravity is now evidence against it.
- SciMeter.org: A new tool for arXiv users
- What's the purpose of working in the foundations of physics?
- Away Note
- Limits of Reductionism
June 2018
- How nature became unnatural
- Particle Physics now Belly Up
- Astrophysicists try to falsify multiverse, find they can’t.
- Physicists are very predictable
- Lost in Math: Out Now.
- Are the laws of nature beautiful? (2nd book trailer)
- Video Trailer for "Lost in Math"
- Science Magazine had my book reviewed, and it’s glorious, glorious.
- Physicist concludes there are no laws of physics.
- Book Update: Books are printed!
May 2018
- New results confirm old anomaly in neutrino data
- What do physicists mean when they say the laws of nature are beautiful?
- This is how I pray
- The Overproduction Crisis in Physics and Why You Should Care About It
- Measuring Scientific Broadness
- Dear Dr B: Should I study string theory?
- Book Review: “The Only Woman In the Room” by Eileen Pollack
April 2018
- Me, Elsewhere
- A black hole merger... merger... merger
- Interna
- Guest Post: Brian Keating about his book “Losing the Nobel Prize"
- Book Review: “Losing the Nobel Prize” by Brian Keating
- No, that galaxy without dark matter has not ruled out modified gravity
- Particle Physicists begin to invent reasons to build next larger Particle Collider
- Book Review: “Farewell to Reality” by Jim Baggott
March 2018
- Why Black Stars Aren’t A Thing.
- Modified Gravity and the Radial Acceleration Relation, Again
- Hawking’s “Final Theory” is not groundbreaking
- Stephen Hawking dies at 76. What was he famous for?
- The Multiworse Is Coming
- Book Update: German Cover Image
- Book Review: “Richie Doodles,” a picture book about Richard Feynman by M. J. Mouton and J. S. Cuevas
- Who is crazy now? (In which I am stunned to encounter people who agree with me that naturalness is nonsense.)
February 2018
- Shut up and simulate. (In which I try to understand how dark matter forms galaxies, and end up very confused.)
- What does it mean for string theory that the LHC has not seen supersymmetric particles?
- Book Update: First Review!
- Which problems make good research problems?
January 2018
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December 2017
- Merry Christmas!
- Get your protons right!
- Research perversions are spreading. You will not like the proposed solution.
- The cosmological constant is not the worst prediction ever. It’s not even a prediction.
November 2017
- If science is what scientists do, what happens if scientists stop doing science?
- Astrophysicist discovers yet another way to screw yourself over when modifying Einstein’s theory
- How do you prove that Earth is older than 10,000 years?
- Away Note
- Naturalness is dead. Long live naturalness.
- How Popper killed Particle Physics
- Book Review: Max Tegmark “Our Mathematical Universe”
October 2017
- No, you still cannot probe quantum gravity with quantum optics
- Book Update
- New gravitational wave detection with optical counterpart rules out some dark matter alternatives
- Space may not be as immaterial as we thought
- I totally mean it: Inflation never solved the flatness problem.
- Is the inflationary universe a scientific theory? Not anymore.
- What could we learn from quantum gravity? [Video]
- Yet another year in which you haven’t won a Nobel Prize!
September 2017
- Dear Dr B: Why are neutrinos evidence for physics beyond the standard model?
- The Quantum Quartet
- Interna
- Away Note
- Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: The Cat’s View
August 2017
- The annotated math of (almost) everything
- I was wrong. You were wrong too. Admit it.
- You don’t expand just because the universe does. Here’s why.
- Outraged about the Google diversity memo? I want you to think about it.
- Self-tuning brings wireless power closer to reality
July 2017
- New paper claims string theory can be tested with Bose-Einstein-Condensates
- Penrose claims LIGO noise is evidence for Cyclic Cosmology
- Nature magazine publishes comment on quantum gravity phenomenology, demonstrates failure of editorial oversight
- Stephen Hawking’s 75th Birthday Conference: Impressions
June 2017
- To understand the foundations of physics, study numerology
- Away Note
- Dear Dr B: Is science democratic?
- If tensions in cosmological data are not measurement problems, they probably mean dark energy changes
- What’s new in high energy physics? Clockworks.
- Dear Dr B: What are the chances of the universe ending out of nowhere due to vacuum decay?
May 2017
- Does parametric resonance solve the cosmological constant problem?
- Can we probe the quantization of the black hole horizon with gravitational waves?
- Can we use gravitational waves to rule out extra dimensions – and string theory with it?
- “Not a Toy” - New Video about Symmetry Breaking
- A Philosopher Tries to Understand the Black Hole Information Paradox
- Away Note
- In which I sing about Schrödinger’s cat
- May-day Pope-hope
April 2017
- Not all publicity is good publicity, not even in science.
- No, physicists have not created “negative mass”
- Catching Light – New Video!
- Book review: “A Big Bang in a Little Room” by Zeeya Merali
- Why doesn’t anti-matter anti-gravitate?
- Book review reviewed: “The Particle Zoo” by Gavin Hesketh
- Dear Dr. B: Why do physicists worry so much about the black hole information paradox?
March 2017
- Book rant: “Universal” by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
- Book review: “Anomaly!” by Tommaso Dorigo
- Academia is fucked-up. So why isn’t anyone doing something about it?
- No, we probably don’t live in a computer simulation
- Is Verlinde’s Emergent Gravity compatible with General Relativity?
- Yes, a violation of energy conservation can explain the cosmological constant
February 2017
- Book Review: “The Particle Zoo” by Gavin Hesketh
- Fake news wasn’t hard to predict – But what’s next?
- Black Hole Information - Still Lost
- Away Note
- New Data from the Early Universe Does Not Rule Out Holography
- Testing Quantum Foundations With Atomic Clocks
January 2017
- What is Physics? [Video]
- Dark matter’s hideout just got smaller, thanks to supercomputers.
- What a burst! A fresh attempt to see space-time foam with gamma ray bursts.
- Stephen Hawking turns 75. Congratulations! Here’s what to celebrate.
- The Bullet Cluster as Evidence against Dark Matter
- How to use an "argument from authority"
- The 2017 Edge Annual Question: Which Scientific Term or Concept Ought To Be More Widely Known?
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December 2016
- Physics is good for your health
- Reasoning in Physics
- Book Review, “Why Quark Rhymes With Pork” by David Mermin
- Cosmic rays hint at new physics just beyond the reach of the LHC
- Away Note
- No, physicists have no fear of math. But they should have more respect.
- Can dark energy and dark matter emerge together with gravity?
November 2016
- Dear Dr. B: What is emergent gravity?
- This isn’t quantum physics. Wait. Actually it is.
- I wrote you a song.
- A new theory SMASHes problems
- Away Note
- Steven Weinberg doesn’t like Quantum Mechanics. So what?
October 2016
- Modified Gravity vs Particle Dark Matter. The Plot Thickens.
- The concordance model strikes back
- Dear Dr B: Where does dark energy come from and what’s it made of?
- What if dark matter is not a particle? The second wind of modified gravity.
- Demystifying Spin 1/2
September 2016
- Dear Dr B: What do physicists mean by “quantum gravity”?
- We understand gravity just fine, thank you.
- Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity 2016
- I’ve read a lot of books recently
- Sorry, the universe wasn’t made for you
August 2016
- Dear Dr. B: How come we never hear of a force that the Higgs boson carries?
- What if the universe was like a pile of laundry?
- Away Note
- The Philosophy of Modern Cosmology (srsly)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Philosophy
- The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true.
- Math blind
July 2016
- Can we please agree what we mean by “Big Bang”?
- Can black holes tunnel to white holes?
- Pulsars could probe black hole horizons
- Why the LHC is such a disappointment: A delusion by name “naturalness”
June 2016
- Where can new physics hide?
- Wissenschaft auf Abwegen
- New study finds no sign of entanglement with other universes
- String phenomenology of the somewhat different kind
- Dear Dr B: Why not string theory?
May 2016
- Book Review: “Why String Theory?” by Joseph Conlon
- Away Note
- How can we test quantum gravity?
- The Holy Grail of Crackpot Filtering: How the arXiv decides what’s science – and what’s not.
- Dear Dr B: If photons have a mass, would this mean special relativity is no longer valid?
- Book review: “The Big Picture” by Sean Carroll
- Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity 2016
April 2016
- If you fall into a black hole
- Dear Dr B: Why is Lorentz-invariance in conflict with discreteness?
- Dark matter might connect galaxies through wormholes
- 10 Essentials of Quantum Mechanics
- New link between quantum computing and black hole may solve information loss problem
- 3 Billion Years Old Math Problem Solved by Prodigy Fetus
March 2016
- Dear Dr. B: What are the requirements for a successful theory of quantum gravity?
- Hey Bill Nye, Please stop talking nonsense about quantum mechanics.
- Can we get some sympathy for the nerdy loners please?
- Researchers propose experiment to measure the gravitational force of milli-gram objects, reaching almost into the quantum realm.
- A new era of science
- Dear Dr. B: What is the difference between entanglement and superposition?
- Tim Gowers and I have something in common. Unfortunately it’s not our math skills.
February 2016
- "Rate your Supervisor" comes to High Energy Physics
- 10 Years BackRe(action)
- Too many anti-neutrinos: Evidence builds for new anomaly
- Dear Dr Bee: Can LIGO’s gravitational wave detection tell us something about quantum gravity?
- What makes an idea worthy? An interview with Anthony Aguirre
- Everything you need to know about gravitational waves
- Much Ado around Nothing: The Cosmological non-Constant Problem
- Me, Elsewhere
January 2016
- Does the arXiv censor submissions?
- Hello from Maui
- Is space-time a prism?
- Messengers from the Dark Age
- Away Note
- Book review: “From the Great Wall to the Great Collider” by Nadis and Yau
- Free will is dead, let’s bury it.
- More information emerges about new proposal to solve black hole information loss problem
- Finding space-time quanta in the cosmic microwave background: Not so simple
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December 2015
- Book review: “Beyond the Galaxy” by Ethan Siegel
- How does a lightsaber work? Here is my best guess.
- Book review: “Seven brief lessons on physics” by Carlo Rovelli
- Dear Dr B: Is string theory science?
- Is light a wave or a particle?
- Ask Dr B: Is the multiverse science? Is the multiverse real?
- No, you don’t need general relativity to ride a hoverboard.
- Quantum gravity could be observable in the oscillation frequency of heavy quantum states
- What Fermilab’s Holometer Experiment teaches us about Quantum Gravity.
- Peer Review and its Discontents [slide show]
- Hawking radiation is not produced at the black hole horizon.
November 2015
- Away note
- Dear Dr B: Can you think of a single advancement in theoretical physics, other than speculation, since the early 1980's?
- The scientific method is not a myth
- I am hiring: Postdoc in AdS/CFT applications to condensed matter
- Mysteriously quiet space baffles researchers
- Dear Dr. B: What do physicists mean when they say time doesn’t exist?
- Another new social networking platform for scientists: Loop
- New music video
- Dumb Holes Leak
October 2015
- What is basic science and what is it good for?
- Black holes and academic walls
- Book review: Spooky Action at a Distance by George Musser
- A newly proposed table-top experiment might be able to demonstrate that gravity is quantized
- Repost in celebration of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics: Neutrino masses and angles
- Book Review: “A Beautiful Question” by Frank Wilczek
- Service Announcement: Backreaction now on facebook!
- When string theorists are out of luck, will Loop Quantum Gravity come to rescue?
September 2015
- No, Loop Quantum Gravity has not been shown to violate the Holographic Principle
- The power of words – and its limit
- Can dark matter cause cancer?
- 10 Things you should know about Dark Matter
- How to publish your first scientific paper
- Macro Dark Matter
- More about Hawking and Perry’s new proposal to solve the black hole information loss problem
- Loops and Strings and Stuff
August 2015
- Embrace your 5th dimension.
- Hawking proposes new idea for how information might escape from black holes
- Me, Elsewhere
- The origin of mass. Or, the pion’s PR problem.
- Tuesday distraction: New music video
- Superfluid Dark Matter
- Dear Dr. Bee: Why do some people assume that the Planck length/time are the minimum possible length and time?
- To the women pregnant with my children: Here is what to expect [Totally TMI – Proceed on your own risk]
- No, you cannot test quantum gravity by entangling mirrors
- Dear Dr. B: Can you make up anything in theoretical physics?
July 2015
- Is the Fermi gamma-ray excess evidence for dark matter or due to milli-second pulsars?
- The number-crunchers. How we learned to stop worrying and love to code.
- Book review: “Eureka” by Chad Orzel.
- The loneliness of my notepad
- Analog Duality
June 2015
- I wasn’t born a scientist. And you weren’t either.
- Does faster-than-light travel lead to a grandfather paradox?
- No, Gravity hasn’t killed Schrödinger’s cat
- The plight of the postdocs: Academia and mental health
- Where are we on the road to quantum gravity?
- What is cosmological hysteresis?
- Social Media for Scientists
May 2015
- String theory advances philosophy. No, really.
- How to make a white dwarf go supernova
- Book Review: “String Theory and the Scientific Method” by Richard Dawid
- Information transfer without energy exchange
- Testing modified gravity with black hole shadows
April 2015
- What should everybody know about the foundations of physics?
- The problem with Poincaré-invariant networks
- Why the LHC will (probably) not destroy the universe
- Away Note
- A wonderful 100th anniversary gift for Einstein
- Publons
- Photonic Booms: How images can move faster than light, and what they can tell us.
- No, the black hole information loss problem has not been solved. Even if PRL thinks so.
March 2015
- New type of gravitational wave detector proposed
- No, the LHC will not make contact with parallel universes
- No, you cannot test quantum gravity with X-ray superradiance
- No foam: New constraint on space-time fluctuations rules out stochastic Planck scale dispersion
- What physics says about the vacuum: A visit to the seashore.
- Can we prove the quantization of gravity with the Casimir effect? Probably not.
February 2015
- Are pop star scientists bad for science?
- New experiment doesn’t see fifth force, rules out class of dark energy models
- Open peer review and its discontents.
- Do black hole firewalls have observable consequences?
- Black holes don’t exist again. Newsflash: It’s a trap!
January 2015
- No, the “long sought-after link between the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity” has not been found
- Book review: "Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe" by John Moffat
- Is philosophy bad science?
- Does the Scientific Method need Revision?
- I'm a little funny
- How to write your first scientific paper
- Do we live in a computer simulation?
- Your g is my e – Has time come for a physics notation standard?