Cognition is futile but I don’t believe in nihilism. Understanding is a restriction of experience and it is by a reflexive framework of understanding that the stenosis of thought we foolishly call reality precludes us from the freedom of plenipotentiary chaos. Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t – without a locus in [...]

Jerry Adler reviews Life After Death: The Evidence by Christian apologist Dinesh D’Souza: If your smart-alecky kid, full of all that Galileo stuff they get in school nowadays, should ask just where this Judgment business takes place, D’Souza provides you with a response. It happens in the multiverse, the infinitely multiplying complex of worlds predicted [...]

A pair of scientists have posited a far-out theory regarding the Large Hadron Collider, the Higgs-Boson, and the fleetingly-inevitable universal collapse which they believe to be sabotaging tests: Dr. Nielsen admits that he and Dr. Ninomiya’s new theory smacks of time travel, a longtime interest, which has become a respectable research subject in recent years. [...]

The task is not to make sense of the quantum axioms by heaping more structure, more definitions, more science fiction imagery on top of them, but to throw them away wholesale and start afresh. We should be relentless in asking ourselves: From what deep physical principles might we derive this exquisite structure? – The Invariant [...]

… it’ll detect shockwaves, shockwaves from the incident of the big bang… and if the shockwaves don’t come out right, if the frequency of vibration that LISA picks up does not correspond to our theories, our theories go out the window… however, if they confirm it, this could be the greatest revolution in philosophy since [...]

… I don’t know why it is not informing public debate – it is: that we can’t always know. When we know of an impending disaster (and how to solve it at a cost less than the cost of the disaster itself) then there’s not going to be much argument, really – but no precautions [...]