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26
Aug
2021

Conversations on Quantum Gravity

The following press release was first published courtesy of University of Amsterdam: https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2021/08/conversations-on-quantum-gravity.htmlhttps://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2021/08/conversations-on-quantum-gravity.html ‘Conversations...
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29
Apr
2021

What is Gravity?

Kirill Krasnov author of “Formulations of General Relativity” asks the question ‘What is Gravity?’...
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29
Apr
2021

Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe

We only have one universe; could features of it be unusual, or surprising? Questions of fine-tuning ask this about our most fundamental theories. On the face of it, the existence of life, complexity,...
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5
Mar
2021

Did an apple really fall on Newton’s head?

The original post can be found at www.principia.blog Everyone knows that The Principia was based on the inspiration that struck Newton when the apple struck his head, as you can...
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16
Feb
2021

Evaluating An Alternative Cosmology

In the last few years, it has become apparent that there are two theories of cosmology that can claim to successfully explain the observations. The standard theory is called the LCDM (Lambda-cold dark...
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23
Dec
2020

Are We Living in a Multiverse? Why We Might –...

In 2017, the influential online platform Edge.org asked leading academics as its question of the year: “What scientific term or concept should be more widely known?” Martin Rees, former President...
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21
Oct
2020

Why do we need a second edition? An Author’s...

Richard M. Martin, author of Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods’, Second Edition, (2020) gives his personal reasons for updating the original edition (2004) Why would anyone...
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10
Jun
2020

Beyond Spacetime

One of the greatest challenges in fundamental physics is to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity in a full theory of “quantum gravity”. It is a challenge that has by turns excited...
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