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Quantum Properties of Spacetime
May 29, 2020
FQXi's Francesca Vidotto talks in-depth to JSTOR Daily about feminist epistemology, white holes, string theory, and her book (with Carlo Rovelli) on loop quantum gravity.
Gravity Winners
May 29, 2020
The winners of the Gravity Research Foundation essay contest have been announced. Congrats to our members who have won prizes: Eduardo Guendelman (for "Lorentzian Quintessential Inflation" with David Benisty), Craig Hogan (for "Cosmological Constant in Coherent Quantum Gravity"), Thanu Padmanabhan (for "Principle of Equivalence at Planck Scales and the Zero-Point-Length of Spacetime"), and Maulik Parikh & Frank Wilczek (first prize for "The Noise of Gravitons" with George Zhariade).
INSPYRE!
Mar 23, 2020
FQXi is proud to support INSPYRE 2020, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the…Universe’”, which is dedicated to the hottest topics from particle physics to cosmology. This year lectures (in English) are online from 30th March to 3rd April. Open to all, especially students & teachers! The course is organised by FQXi's Catalina Oana Curceanu, senior researcher at the National Laboratory of Frascati (LNF), and you can read more here.
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Answering Mermin’s Challenge
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There's a new paper in Scientific Reports by Mark Stuckey and colleagues showing that the relativity principle responsible for time dilation and length contraction in special relativity is also responsible for Bell state...
Cosmology
The Effects of Inertial Forces on the Dynamics of...
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Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability Essay Contest (2019-2020)
Impeccably Venerable: A Qualitative Conceptual...
By SATYAVARAPU NAGA PARAMESWARA GUPTA
Dear Dale Carl Gillman,
Wonderful starting words....
................Undecidability, uncomputability, unpredictability, along with incompleteness are all terms generally associated with phenomena within the sacrosanct realm of [pure]...
Towards the unification of the four fundamental...
By TEJINDER SINGH
This is a voice narration of a seminar given at the Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam on September 21, 2020. It describes the new theory of unification reported in...
AI, Consciousness, Computation, and Physical Law...
By ROGER PENROSE
Abstract: A common scientific view is that the actions of a human brain could, in principle, be simulated by appropriate computation, and even that it may not be too far into the future before computers become so powerful that they will be able to...
Aikyons, Octonions, and Unification by Tejinder...
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This elementary video describes a recently proposed theory of unification, the Aikyon theory. The theory builds on the deep connection between the octonions and the elementary...
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2019: Year in Physics Review Part 2:
Concluding our countdown of the biggest stories of the year in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham.
2019: Year in Physics Review Part 1
Beginning our countdown of the biggest stories of the year in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham.
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Ultimate Reality
Answering Mermin’s Challenge
By ZEEYA MERALI
There's a new paper in Scientific Reports by Mark Stuckey and colleagues showing that the relativity principle responsible for time dilation and length contraction in special relativity is also responsible for Bell state...
Cosmology
The Effects of Inertial Forces on the Dynamics of...
By ZEEYA MERALI
Tomer Zimmerman & Roy Gomel of Tel Aviv University alerted me to their preprint arguing that that phenomena of dark matter (on galactic scales) could be attributed to Inertial forces.
From their abstract:
When dealing with galactic...
Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability Essay Contest (2019-2020)
Impeccably Venerable: A Qualitative Conceptual...
By SATYAVARAPU NAGA PARAMESWARA GUPTA
Dear Dale Carl Gillman,
Wonderful starting words....
................Undecidability, uncomputability, unpredictability, along with incompleteness are all terms generally associated with phenomena within the sacrosanct realm of [pure]...
NEW ARTICLES
Time to Think
By JOHN FARRELL • Sep 17, 2020
Philosopher Jenann Ismael invokes the thermodynamic arrow of time to explain how human intelligence emerged through culture.
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Lockdown Lab Life
By COLIN STUART • Jun 19, 2020
Grounded physicists are exploring the use of online and virtual-reality conferencing, and AI-controlled experiments, to maintain social distancing. Post-pandemic, these positive innovations could make science more accessible and environmentally-friendly.
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(3 posts)
Is Causality Fundamental?
By BRENDAN FOSTER • Jun 18, 2020
Untangling how the human perception of cause-and-effect might arise from quantum physics, may help us understand the limits and the potential of AI.
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(77 posts)
Building Agency in the Biology Lab
By MIRIAM FRANKEL • Apr 10, 2020
Physicists are using optogenetics techniques to make a rudimentary agent, from cellular components, which can convert measurements into actions using light.
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(3 posts)
Think Quantum to Build Better AI
By COLIN STUART • Mar 6, 2020
Investigating how quantum memory storage could aid machine learning and how quantum interactions with the environment may have played a role in evolution.
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(4 posts)
Outside the Box
By COLIN STUART • Mar 5, 2020
A proposed quantum set-up that could predict your game-playing strategy resurrects Newcomb’s classic quiz show paradox.
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(7 posts)
The Quantum Agent
By NICOLA JONES • Feb 11, 2020
Investigating how the quantum measurement process might be related to the emergence of intelligence, agency and free will.
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(18 posts)
First Things First: The Physics of Causality
By KATE BECKER • Jul 16, 2019
Why do we remember the past and not the future? Untangling the connections between cause and effect, choice, and entropy.
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(196 posts)
Can Time Be Saved From Physics?
By JOHN FARRELL • Apr 27, 2019
Philosophers, physicists and neuroscientists discuss how our sense of time’s flow might arise through our interactions with external stimuli—despite suggestions from Einstein's relativity that our perception of the passage of time is an illusion.
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(144 posts)
Thermo-Demonics
By M. MITCHELL WALDROP • Mar 4, 2019
A devilish new framework of thermodynamics that focuses on how we observe information could help illuminate our understanding of probability and rewrite quantum theory.
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(69 posts)
Gravity's Residue
By GEORGE MUSSER • Feb 15, 2019
An unusual approach to unifying the laws of physics could solve Hawking's black-hole information paradox—and its predicted gravitational "memory effect" could be picked up by LIGO.
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(5 posts)
Could Mind Forge the Universe?
By SOPHIE HEBDEN • Jan 18, 2019
Objective reality, and the laws of physics themselves, emerge from our observations, according to a new framework that turns what we think of as fundamental on its head.
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(40 posts)
Dissolving Quantum Paradoxes
By KATE BECKER • Aug 31, 2018
The impossibility of building a perfect clock could help explain away microscale weirdness.
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(109 posts)
Constructing a Theory of Life
By MIRIAM FRANKEL • Jul 31, 2018
An all-encompassing framework of physics could help to explain the evolution of consciousness, intelligence, and free will.
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(114 posts)
Usurping Quantum Theory
By COLIN STUART • Jun 28, 2018
The search is on for a fundamental framework that allows for even stranger links between particles than quantum theory—which could lead us to a theory of everything.
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(11 posts)
Fuzzballs v Black Holes
By SOPHIE HEBDEN • May 11, 2018
A radical theory replaces the cosmic crunchers with fuzzy quantum spheres, potentially solving the black-hole information paradox and explaining away the Big Bang and the origin of time.
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(21 posts)
Time to Think
By JOHN FARRELL • Sep 17, 2020
Philosopher Jenann Ismael invokes the thermodynamic arrow of time to explain how human intelligence emerged through culture.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(4 posts)
Lockdown Lab Life
By COLIN STUART • Jun 19, 2020
Grounded physicists are exploring the use of online and virtual-reality conferencing, and AI-controlled experiments, to maintain social distancing. Post-pandemic, these positive innovations could make science more accessible and environmentally-friendly.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(3 posts)
Is Causality Fundamental?
By BRENDAN FOSTER • Jun 18, 2020
Untangling how the human perception of cause-and-effect might arise from quantum physics, may help us understand the limits and the potential of AI.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(77 posts)
Building Agency in the Biology Lab
By MIRIAM FRANKEL • Apr 10, 2020
Physicists are using optogenetics techniques to make a rudimentary agent, from cellular components, which can convert measurements into actions using light.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(3 posts)
Think Quantum to Build Better AI
By COLIN STUART • Mar 6, 2020
Investigating how quantum memory storage could aid machine learning and how quantum interactions with the environment may have played a role in evolution.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(4 posts)
Outside the Box
By COLIN STUART • Mar 5, 2020
A proposed quantum set-up that could predict your game-playing strategy resurrects Newcomb’s classic quiz show paradox.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(7 posts)
The Quantum Agent
By NICOLA JONES • Feb 11, 2020
Investigating how the quantum measurement process might be related to the emergence of intelligence, agency and free will.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(18 posts)
First Things First: The Physics of Causality
By KATE BECKER • Jul 16, 2019
Why do we remember the past and not the future? Untangling the connections between cause and effect, choice, and entropy.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(196 posts)
Can Time Be Saved From Physics?
By JOHN FARRELL • Apr 27, 2019
Philosophers, physicists and neuroscientists discuss how our sense of time’s flow might arise through our interactions with external stimuli—despite suggestions from Einstein's relativity that our perception of the passage of time is an illusion.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(144 posts)
Thermo-Demonics
By M. MITCHELL WALDROP • Mar 4, 2019
A devilish new framework of thermodynamics that focuses on how we observe information could help illuminate our understanding of probability and rewrite quantum theory.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(69 posts)
Gravity's Residue
By GEORGE MUSSER • Feb 15, 2019
An unusual approach to unifying the laws of physics could solve Hawking's black-hole information paradox—and its predicted gravitational "memory effect" could be picked up by LIGO.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(5 posts)
Could Mind Forge the Universe?
By SOPHIE HEBDEN • Jan 18, 2019
Objective reality, and the laws of physics themselves, emerge from our observations, according to a new framework that turns what we think of as fundamental on its head.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(40 posts)
Dissolving Quantum Paradoxes
By KATE BECKER • Aug 31, 2018
The impossibility of building a perfect clock could help explain away microscale weirdness.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(109 posts)
Constructing a Theory of Life
By MIRIAM FRANKEL • Jul 31, 2018
An all-encompassing framework of physics could help to explain the evolution of consciousness, intelligence, and free will.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(114 posts)
Usurping Quantum Theory
By COLIN STUART • Jun 28, 2018
The search is on for a fundamental framework that allows for even stranger links between particles than quantum theory—which could lead us to a theory of everything.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(11 posts)
Fuzzballs v Black Holes
By SOPHIE HEBDEN • May 11, 2018
A radical theory replaces the cosmic crunchers with fuzzy quantum spheres, potentially solving the black-hole information paradox and explaining away the Big Bang and the origin of time.
Read article
Discuss this article in the FQXi Community Forum
(21 posts)