What would it take to turn the entire cosmos into software-down to the rules that generate space and time? For decades, the simulation hypothesis has resided comfortably in the gap between philosophy ...

Quarterback Philip Rivers says he didn't return to save the Colts' season, but that's precisely what they need him to do. Steph Chambers / Getty Images Antonio Gates scoffed at the flattering but ...

It has been a week of raw, mixed emotions for me. Monday started with a nerve-racking appointment with Prof Choi. The discussion was around surgery or a drug trial and I was blessed that the drug ...

What should organizations do to mitigate AI security risks according to the NIST paper? Organizations should adopt comprehensive guardrails and monitoring mechanisms to mitigate AI security risks.

For centuries, mathematics was seen as the one field built on absolute certainty. But a deeper look into logic reveals a flaw at the core of the entire system one that even the greatest minds couldn’t ...

Just as Gödel’s incompleteness theorems show that no number system can fully describe itself, it seems clear from Kuhn’s excellent survey of the field that whatever consciousness is, ours cannot fully ...

This past week, I began reading The Maniac, a fictionalized biography of John von Neumann. While von Neumann is perhaps lesser known than some of his contemporaries — Albert Einstein, J. Robert ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...