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What Is “Fundamental”
October 28, 2017 to January 22, 2018
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Wandering Towards a Goal
How can mindless mathematical laws give rise to aims and intention?
December 2, 2016 to March 3, 2017
Contest Partner: The Peter and Patricia Gruber Fund.
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Trick or Truth: The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics
Contest Partners: Nanotronics Imaging, The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, and The John Templeton Foundation
Media Partner: Scientific American
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How Should Humanity Steer the Future?
January 9, 2014 - August 31, 2014
Contest Partners: Jaan Tallinn, The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, The John Templeton Foundation, and Scientific American
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It From Bit or Bit From It
March 25 - June 28, 2013
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Questioning the Foundations
Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong?
May 24 - August 31, 2012
Contest Partners: The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, SubMeta, and Scientific American
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Is Reality Digital or Analog?
November 2010 - February 2011
Contest Partners: The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation and Scientific American
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What's Ultimately Possible in Physics?
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What Is Ultimately Possible in Physics? by Stephen Wolfram
45 posts • created by Stephen Wolfram • Oct. 9, 2009 @ 16:33 GMT
Two steps back, one leap forward by Steven Oostdijk
68 posts • created by Steven Oostdijk • Oct. 8, 2009 @ 11:33 GMT
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16 posts • created by Thomas Sotiriou • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:22 GMT
Natural, Integrated, and Interactive Experience and What is Ultimately Possible in Physics by Frank Martin DiMeglio
49 posts • created by Frank Martin DiMeglio • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:22 GMT
Lessons from failures to achieve what was possible in the twentieth century physics by Vesselin Petkov
58 posts • created by Vesselin Petkov • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:22 GMT
Is No Drama Quantum theory Possible? by Andrey Akhmeteli
4 posts • created by Andrey Akhmeteli • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:22 GMT
Physics, Information and Life, Towards a Universal Theory by David W. Hobill
9 posts • created by David W. Hobill • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:22 GMT
Why Physics Knows No Bounds by Enrico Rodrigo
3 posts • created by Enrico Rodrigo • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:20 GMT
The Zero-sum Game of Physics by Ryan S. Westafer
7 posts • created by Ryan S. Westafer • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 11:28 GMT
Mission Impossible by Maulik Parikh
15 posts • created by Maulik Parikh • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 11:27 GMT
Solving the mystery of wave/particle duality---the road to a unified theory of physics by Dennis Crossley
23 posts • created by Dennis Crossley • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 11:27 GMT
Mountains on the Moon: The Multiverse and the Limits of Physics by Richard Easther
17 posts • created by Richard Easther • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 11:27 GMT
The No-Signalling Theorems: A Nitpicking Distinction by Kent A. Peacock
4 posts • created by Kent A. Peacock • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:56 GMT
Towards A More Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Terence Nelson
12 posts • created by Terence Nelson • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:56 GMT
Ultimately, Experimental Metaphysics Will Triumph by James Graber
4 posts • created by James Graber • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:55 GMT
The Ultimate Physics Experiment by Ken Wharton
11 posts • created by Ken Wharton • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:55 GMT
What is ultimately possible in physics depends on foundations and philosophy by Peter Lynds
44 posts • created by Peter Lynds • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:40 GMT
Emergent gravity and the spatiotemporal limits of knowledge by Gil Jannes
5 posts • created by Gil Jannes • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:40 GMT
Unification and Emergence in Physics: the Problem of Articulation by Ian Durham
22 posts • created by Ian Durham • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:40 GMT
On the Impossibility of Separating Clocks from Rulers by Armin Nikkhah Shirazi
4 posts • created by Armin Nikkhah Shirazi • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:39 GMT
Unification and the Limits of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser
12 posts • created by Marcelo Gleiser • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 21:46 GMT
Physics and limits of Human Thought by Gagandeep Singh Bhatia
21 posts • created by Gagandeep Singh Bhatia • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 21:44 GMT
Ultimately, in Physics the Rational shall become Reasonable! by Terry Padden
72 posts • created by Terry Padden • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 17:01 GMT
Impossible To Sketch The Ultimate Thing In Science by Madhuri Latha Kanukollu
8 posts • created by madhuri latha kanukollu • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:17 GMT
What is Ultimately Possible in Physics, Completeness of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Gravity, and Consciousness by Janko Kokosar
16 posts • created by Janko Kokosar • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:16 GMT
At the Frontier of Knowledge by Sabine Hossenfelder
24 posts • created by Sabine Hossenfelder • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:16 GMT
Possibilistic Physics by Tobias Fritz
15 posts • created by Tobias Fritz • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:16 GMT
Chaos and the Quantum: Limits of Physics Involving the Physics of Limits by William C. McHarris
16 posts • created by William C. McHarris • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:16 GMT
Interstellar Travel and the Future of Physics by Stephen Lee
8 posts • created by Stephen Lee • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:15 GMT
The limits of cosmology by Amedeo Balbi
19 posts • created by Amedeo Balbi • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 15:03 GMT
Charged Photons? - An Educated Guess of Properties by Enrique Canessa
8 posts • created by E. Canessa • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 15:02 GMT
Subjective Universe by Daegene Song
9 posts • created by Daegene Song • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 15:02 GMT
Fundamental Physics of Consciousness by Edwin Eugene Klingman
103 posts • created by Edwin Eugene Klingman • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 14:11 GMT
The Ultimate Meaning of the Universe. A finger exercise on an all-pervasive machine by Gerhard Groessing
6 posts • created by Gerhard Groessing • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 12:05 GMT
On the Non-Existence of TOEs by Ari Stophrenic
4 posts • created by Ari Stophrenic • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 11:59 GMT
On the applicability of quantum physics by George F. R. Ellis
23 posts • created by George F. R. Ellis • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 11:59 GMT
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18 posts • created by Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 11:58 GMT
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4 posts • created by Navin Sivanandam • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 10:54 GMT
The Possibility of Unification via a Global Adynamical Organizing Principle by Michael David Silberstein and W. M. Stuckey
29 posts • created by Michael David Silberstein • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 10:53 GMT
Spacetime and Matter - a duality of partial orders by Hans-Thomas Elze
46 posts • created by Hans-Thomas Elze • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:45 GMT
Finally it is possible to understand our universe and its implications by Gordon Kane
9 posts • created by Gordon Kane • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:43 GMT
The experimental method and the constitutive limits of the mathematical description of physics by Enrico Prati
17 posts • created by Enrico Prati • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:42 GMT
Quantum Physics for Burning Questions by George Schoenfelder
47 posts • created by George Schoenfelder • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:42 GMT
The Fundamental Importance of Discourse In Theoretical Physics by Philip Vos Fellman, Jonathan Vos Post, and Christine Carmichael
19 posts • created by Philip Vos Fellman • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:40 GMT
Conformal Geometrodynamics as the Basis for the Unified Description of Nature by Mikhail Vladimirovich Gorbatenko and Gennady Grigorievich Kochemasov
8 posts • created by Mikhail Vladimirovich Gorbatenko • Oct. 1, 2009 @ 14:58 GMT
What is the Ultimate Velocity? by Andrew Miller
16 posts • created by Andrew Miller • Oct. 1, 2009 @ 11:41 GMT
The Ultimate Possibilty Physics.Anthropological Daseinisation by Michael Alexeevich Popov
5 posts • created by Michael Alexeevich Popov • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:28 GMT
Ordinary Analogues for Quantum Mechanics by Arjen Dijksman
74 posts • created by Arjen Dijksman • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:28 GMT
Wigner's weird friends by Pablo Garcia Tello
8 posts • created by Pablo Garcia Tello • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
What's Ultimately Possible in Physics by Paul N Butler
23 posts • created by Paul N Butler • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
The Ultimate Physics of Number Counting by Andreas Martin Lisewski
22 posts • created by Andreas Martin Lisewski • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
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128 posts • created by Jonathan J. Dickau • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
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9 posts • created by Milan M Cirkovic • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
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7 posts • created by Stefano Finazzi • Sep. 29, 2009 @ 13:59 GMT
Quantum theory, gravity, and the standard model of particle physics : using the hints of today to build the final theory of tomorrow by Tejinder Singh
74 posts • created by Tejinder Singh • Sep. 29, 2009 @ 12:13 GMT
Ignoramus and Ignorabimus by Alfred Tang
11 posts • created by Alfred Tang • Sep. 29, 2009 @ 12:12 GMT
Marblewood: A Gentle Unification of Quantum Theory and General Relativity by Cristinel Stoica
62 posts • created by Cristinel Stoica • Sep. 29, 2009 @ 12:12 GMT
What Is Ultimately Possible in Physics Will Be Found Within An Observer-Participant Universe Where The Photon Carries The Arrow of Time by Darryl Jay Leiter
43 posts • created by Darryl Jay Leiter • Sep. 28, 2009 @ 12:33 GMT
Unification of Nuclear Structure Theory Is Possible by Norman D. Cook
26 posts • created by Norman D. Cook • Sep. 28, 2009 @ 12:33 GMT
What is ultimately possible in physics? by Jeffrey Nicholls
23 posts • created by Jeffrey Nicholls • Sep. 28, 2009 @ 12:33 GMT
The Imitation of Christ: The Universal Security State, Freedom and Responsibility by Eugene Fredrick Mische
2 posts • created by Eugene Fredrick Mische • Sep. 28, 2009 @ 12:33 GMT
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19 posts • created by Cristian S. Calude • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 17:46 GMT
What if ... fundamental mathematics constrains the physics? by Franklin Potter
48 posts • created by Franklin Potter • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 17:45 GMT
A Historical Approach to Research in Fundamental Physics by Emile Grgin
127 posts • created by Emile - Grgin • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 11:42 GMT
What is ultimately possible in Physics? Can Quantum Physics lead us to a Transempirical, Transmaterial and Transpersonal Domain of Physical Reality? by Lothar Schäfer
6 posts • created by Lothar Schafer • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 11:42 GMT
Galilei, Gold, Ren - votes for ultimate realism by Eckard Blumschein
128 posts • created by Eckard Blumschein • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 11:42 GMT
From Chaos To Consciousness by Basileios Grispos
18 posts • created by BASILEIOS GRISPOS • Sep. 24, 2009 @ 11:30 GMT
Stardrives and Spinoza by Louis Crane
30 posts • created by Louis Crane • Sep. 24, 2009 @ 11:30 GMT
The limit of physics,..Science, Consciousness, and Free Will. by Juan Enrique Ramos Beraud
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71 posts • created by NARENDRA NATH • Sep. 23, 2009 @ 09:49 GMT
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41 posts • created by Ettore Minguzzi • Sep. 22, 2009 @ 12:08 GMT
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5 posts • created by Stephen A. Brenner • Sep. 22, 2009 @ 12:08 GMT
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264 posts • created by Ray B Munroe • Sep. 22, 2009 @ 12:08 GMT
It's the Temperature! by Buz Craft
18 posts • created by Buz Craft • Sep. 22, 2009 @ 12:08 GMT
The fairness principle and the ultimate theory of not everything by Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
76 posts • created by Giovanni Amelino-Camelia • Sep. 17, 2009 @ 10:20 GMT
A New Kind of New Kind of Science by Owen Thomas Cunningham
51 posts • created by Owen Thomas Cunningham • Sep. 17, 2009 @ 10:20 GMT
Quantum Mechanics and the Source of Awareness by Casey Blood
57 posts • created by Casey Blood • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:04 GMT
On Explaining Existence by Dean Rickles
37 posts • created by Dean Rickles • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:04 GMT
Gravity From the Ground Up by Don Limuti
58 posts • created by Don Limuti • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:03 GMT
Energy, Matter, and Scale in an Evolving Universe by Vasile Coman
8 posts • created by Vasile Coman • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:03 GMT
The Ultimately Possible in Physics by Sascha Vongehr
15 posts • created by Sascha Vongehr • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:03 GMT
What is Ultimately Possible in Physics? Physics! A Hero’s Journey with Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, Schrodinger, Bohr, and the Greats towards Moving Dimensions Theory. E pur si muove! by Dr. Elliot McGucken
51 posts • created by Dr. Elliot McGucken • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 14:14 GMT
The Infinite Fractal Universe by Robert L. Oldershaw
100 posts • created by Robert L. Oldershaw • Sep. 15, 2009 @ 15:59 GMT
The Intrinsic Structure of the Quantities by Peter van Gaalen
65 posts • created by Peter van Gaalen • Sep. 15, 2009 @ 15:43 GMT
Physics Stops where Natural Metaphysics Starts by Marcel-Marie LeBel
36 posts • created by Marcel-Marie LeBel • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:42 GMT
Turing's Landscape: decidability, computability and complexity in string theory by Abhijnan Rej
23 posts • created by Abhijnan Rej • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:31 GMT
Quantum mechanics from a stochastic least action principle by Joakim David Munkhammar
19 posts • created by Joakim David Munkhammar • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:26 GMT
Could we physically replicate our universe? by Malcolm Macleod
5 posts • created by Malcolm Macleod • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:21 GMT
Taming of the One by Helmut Hansen
30 posts • created by Helmut Hansen • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:20 GMT
Ultimate Possibilities of Physics by Ben Baten
29 posts • created by Ben Baten • Sep. 9, 2009 @ 12:13 GMT
What is Ultimately Possible in Physic? by James L De Spears
11 posts • created by James L De Spears • Sep. 9, 2009 @ 11:15 GMT
Is There a System Beyond the Particle? by Mohammed Sanduk
27 posts • created by Mohammed Sanduk • Sep. 4, 2009 @ 11:29 GMT
Perfect Symmetry by Peter A Jackson
139 posts • created by Peter Jackson • Sep. 1, 2009 @ 15:17 GMT
Can we see into a black hole? by Lawrence B Crowell
142 posts • created by Lawrence B Crowell • Sep. 1, 2009 @ 14:46 GMT
Matter-universe to Cluster-matter-universe by Jayakar Johnson Joseph
221 posts • created by Jayakar Johnson Joseph • Sep. 1, 2009 @ 14:46 GMT
Mechanics of a Self-Creating Universe by Anton W. M. Biermans
27 posts • created by Anton W.M. Biermans • Sep. 1, 2009 @ 14:46 GMT
What is Possible for Theoretical Physics? by James A Putnam
62 posts • created by James A Putnam • Aug. 26, 2009 @ 12:32 GMT
The Return of the Gods - Cosmology at its Limits by Ernst Fischer
8 posts • created by Ernst Fischer • Aug. 20, 2009 @ 13:54 GMT
ant among giants. . .a fable by Richard P Dolan
16 posts • created by Richard P Dolan • Aug. 20, 2009 @ 13:54 GMT
What is possible in physics depends on the chosen representational formalism by Lev Goldfarb
105 posts • created by Lev Goldfarb • Aug. 7, 2009 @ 05:28 GMT
How to create an absolute vacuum and a perfectly isolated system by Constantin Zaharia Leshan
36 posts • created by Constantin Zaharia Leshan • Jul. 27, 2009 @ 08:24 GMT
Interferometric detection of gravitational waves: understanding if Einstein's General Relativity is the correct and definitive theory of gravity will be Ultimately Possible in Physics by Christian Corda
81 posts • created by Christian Corda • Jul. 21, 2009 @ 07:56 GMT
Nature of the Universe by Ranganath Gururaj Kulkarni
5 posts • created by Ranganath Gururaj Kulkarni • Jul. 20, 2009 @ 05:50 GMT
A Logical Physical Theory by Nainan K. Varghese
13 posts • created by Nainan K. Varghese • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:17 GMT
Heuristic rule for constructing physics axiomatization by Florin Moldoveanu
283 posts • created by Florin Moldoveanu • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
On the Impossibility of Time Travel by J. C. N. Smith
219 posts • created by J. C. N. Smith • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
A Very Short Story of What is to Come by Alexandre Paradis
4 posts • created by Alexandre Paradis • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
Identical Crisis by Joe Fisher
6 posts • created by Joe Fisher • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
The Math of Hua Luogeng - Another Game in Town by Frank Dodd Smith
6 posts • created by Frank Dodd Smith • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
An Intuitive Explanation for the Existence of Everything by Irvon Eugene Clear
12 posts • created by Irvon Eugene Clear • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
Pursuing the Limits of Failed Symmetry by Alan M. Schwartz
99 posts • created by Alan M. Schwartz • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
Ultimately, anything is possible by Hrvoje Nikolic
35 posts • created by Hrvoje Nikolic • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
To be or not to be strictly deterministic? by Stefan Weckbach
63 posts • created by Stefan Weckbach • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
Awakening of the Observer in Physics by Amrit Srecko Sorli
190 posts • created by Amrit Srecko Sorli • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
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Two steps back, one leap forward by Steven Oostdijk
68 posts • created by Steven Oostdijk • Oct. 8, 2009 @ 11:33 GMT
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Lessons from failures to achieve what was possible in the twentieth century physics by Vesselin Petkov
58 posts • created by Vesselin Petkov • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:22 GMT
Is No Drama Quantum theory Possible? by Andrey Akhmeteli
4 posts • created by Andrey Akhmeteli • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:22 GMT
Physics, Information and Life, Towards a Universal Theory by David W. Hobill
9 posts • created by David W. Hobill • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:22 GMT
Why Physics Knows No Bounds by Enrico Rodrigo
3 posts • created by Enrico Rodrigo • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 16:20 GMT
The Zero-sum Game of Physics by Ryan S. Westafer
7 posts • created by Ryan S. Westafer • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 11:28 GMT
Mission Impossible by Maulik Parikh
15 posts • created by Maulik Parikh • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 11:27 GMT
Solving the mystery of wave/particle duality---the road to a unified theory of physics by Dennis Crossley
23 posts • created by Dennis Crossley • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 11:27 GMT
Mountains on the Moon: The Multiverse and the Limits of Physics by Richard Easther
17 posts • created by Richard Easther • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 11:27 GMT
The No-Signalling Theorems: A Nitpicking Distinction by Kent A. Peacock
4 posts • created by Kent A. Peacock • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:56 GMT
Towards A More Realistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Terence Nelson
12 posts • created by Terence Nelson • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:56 GMT
Ultimately, Experimental Metaphysics Will Triumph by James Graber
4 posts • created by James Graber • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:55 GMT
The Ultimate Physics Experiment by Ken Wharton
11 posts • created by Ken Wharton • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:55 GMT
What is ultimately possible in physics depends on foundations and philosophy by Peter Lynds
44 posts • created by Peter Lynds • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:40 GMT
Emergent gravity and the spatiotemporal limits of knowledge by Gil Jannes
5 posts • created by Gil Jannes • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:40 GMT
Unification and Emergence in Physics: the Problem of Articulation by Ian Durham
22 posts • created by Ian Durham • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:40 GMT
On the Impossibility of Separating Clocks from Rulers by Armin Nikkhah Shirazi
4 posts • created by Armin Nikkhah Shirazi • Oct. 5, 2009 @ 10:39 GMT
Unification and the Limits of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser
12 posts • created by Marcelo Gleiser • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 21:46 GMT
Physics and limits of Human Thought by Gagandeep Singh Bhatia
21 posts • created by Gagandeep Singh Bhatia • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 21:44 GMT
Ultimately, in Physics the Rational shall become Reasonable! by Terry Padden
72 posts • created by Terry Padden • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 17:01 GMT
Impossible To Sketch The Ultimate Thing In Science by Madhuri Latha Kanukollu
8 posts • created by madhuri latha kanukollu • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:17 GMT
What is Ultimately Possible in Physics, Completeness of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Gravity, and Consciousness by Janko Kokosar
16 posts • created by Janko Kokosar • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:16 GMT
At the Frontier of Knowledge by Sabine Hossenfelder
24 posts • created by Sabine Hossenfelder • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:16 GMT
Possibilistic Physics by Tobias Fritz
15 posts • created by Tobias Fritz • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:16 GMT
Chaos and the Quantum: Limits of Physics Involving the Physics of Limits by William C. McHarris
16 posts • created by William C. McHarris • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:16 GMT
Interstellar Travel and the Future of Physics by Stephen Lee
8 posts • created by Stephen Lee • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 16:15 GMT
The limits of cosmology by Amedeo Balbi
19 posts • created by Amedeo Balbi • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 15:03 GMT
Charged Photons? - An Educated Guess of Properties by Enrique Canessa
8 posts • created by E. Canessa • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 15:02 GMT
Subjective Universe by Daegene Song
9 posts • created by Daegene Song • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 15:02 GMT
Fundamental Physics of Consciousness by Edwin Eugene Klingman
103 posts • created by Edwin Eugene Klingman • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 14:11 GMT
The Ultimate Meaning of the Universe. A finger exercise on an all-pervasive machine by Gerhard Groessing
6 posts • created by Gerhard Groessing • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 12:05 GMT
On the Non-Existence of TOEs by Ari Stophrenic
4 posts • created by Ari Stophrenic • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 11:59 GMT
On the applicability of quantum physics by George F. R. Ellis
23 posts • created by George F. R. Ellis • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 11:59 GMT
On the (im)possibility of quantum computing by Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu
18 posts • created by Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 11:58 GMT
A Computational Anthropic Principle: Where is the Hardest Problem in the Multiverse? by Navin Sivanandam
4 posts • created by Navin Sivanandam • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 10:54 GMT
The Possibility of Unification via a Global Adynamical Organizing Principle by Michael David Silberstein and W. M. Stuckey
29 posts • created by Michael David Silberstein • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 10:53 GMT
Spacetime and Matter - a duality of partial orders by Hans-Thomas Elze
46 posts • created by Hans-Thomas Elze • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:45 GMT
Finally it is possible to understand our universe and its implications by Gordon Kane
9 posts • created by Gordon Kane • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:43 GMT
The experimental method and the constitutive limits of the mathematical description of physics by Enrico Prati
17 posts • created by Enrico Prati • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:42 GMT
Quantum Physics for Burning Questions by George Schoenfelder
47 posts • created by George Schoenfelder • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:42 GMT
The Fundamental Importance of Discourse In Theoretical Physics by Philip Vos Fellman, Jonathan Vos Post, and Christine Carmichael
19 posts • created by Philip Vos Fellman • Oct. 2, 2009 @ 09:40 GMT
Conformal Geometrodynamics as the Basis for the Unified Description of Nature by Mikhail Vladimirovich Gorbatenko and Gennady Grigorievich Kochemasov
8 posts • created by Mikhail Vladimirovich Gorbatenko • Oct. 1, 2009 @ 14:58 GMT
What is the Ultimate Velocity? by Andrew Miller
16 posts • created by Andrew Miller • Oct. 1, 2009 @ 11:41 GMT
The Ultimate Possibilty Physics.Anthropological Daseinisation by Michael Alexeevich Popov
5 posts • created by Michael Alexeevich Popov • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:28 GMT
Ordinary Analogues for Quantum Mechanics by Arjen Dijksman
74 posts • created by Arjen Dijksman • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:28 GMT
Wigner's weird friends by Pablo Garcia Tello
8 posts • created by Pablo Garcia Tello • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
What's Ultimately Possible in Physics by Paul N Butler
23 posts • created by Paul N Butler • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
The Ultimate Physics of Number Counting by Andreas Martin Lisewski
22 posts • created by Andreas Martin Lisewski • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
The Possibility for Answers from Physics by Jonathan J. Dickau
128 posts • created by Jonathan J. Dickau • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
Star Maker: Reshaping the Archipelago of Habitability by Milan M Cirkovic
9 posts • created by Milan M Cirkovic • Sep. 30, 2009 @ 14:15 GMT
On the impossibility of superluminal travel: the warp drive lesson by Carlos Barcelo, Stefano Finazzi, and Stefano Liberati
7 posts • created by Stefano Finazzi • Sep. 29, 2009 @ 13:59 GMT
Quantum theory, gravity, and the standard model of particle physics : using the hints of today to build the final theory of tomorrow by Tejinder Singh
74 posts • created by Tejinder Singh • Sep. 29, 2009 @ 12:13 GMT
Ignoramus and Ignorabimus by Alfred Tang
11 posts • created by Alfred Tang • Sep. 29, 2009 @ 12:12 GMT
Marblewood: A Gentle Unification of Quantum Theory and General Relativity by Cristinel Stoica
62 posts • created by Cristinel Stoica • Sep. 29, 2009 @ 12:12 GMT
What Is Ultimately Possible in Physics Will Be Found Within An Observer-Participant Universe Where The Photon Carries The Arrow of Time by Darryl Jay Leiter
43 posts • created by Darryl Jay Leiter • Sep. 28, 2009 @ 12:33 GMT
Unification of Nuclear Structure Theory Is Possible by Norman D. Cook
26 posts • created by Norman D. Cook • Sep. 28, 2009 @ 12:33 GMT
What is ultimately possible in physics? by Jeffrey Nicholls
23 posts • created by Jeffrey Nicholls • Sep. 28, 2009 @ 12:33 GMT
The Imitation of Christ: The Universal Security State, Freedom and Responsibility by Eugene Fredrick Mische
2 posts • created by Eugene Fredrick Mische • Sep. 28, 2009 @ 12:33 GMT
Is Feasibility in Physics Limited by Fantasy Alone? by Cristian S. Calude and Karl Svozil
19 posts • created by Cristian S. Calude • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 17:46 GMT
What if ... fundamental mathematics constrains the physics? by Franklin Potter
48 posts • created by Franklin Potter • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 17:45 GMT
A Historical Approach to Research in Fundamental Physics by Emile Grgin
127 posts • created by Emile - Grgin • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 11:42 GMT
What is ultimately possible in Physics? Can Quantum Physics lead us to a Transempirical, Transmaterial and Transpersonal Domain of Physical Reality? by Lothar Schäfer
6 posts • created by Lothar Schafer • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 11:42 GMT
Galilei, Gold, Ren - votes for ultimate realism by Eckard Blumschein
128 posts • created by Eckard Blumschein • Sep. 25, 2009 @ 11:42 GMT
From Chaos To Consciousness by Basileios Grispos
18 posts • created by BASILEIOS GRISPOS • Sep. 24, 2009 @ 11:30 GMT
Stardrives and Spinoza by Louis Crane
30 posts • created by Louis Crane • Sep. 24, 2009 @ 11:30 GMT
The limit of physics,..Science, Consciousness, and Free Will. by Juan Enrique Ramos Beraud
10 posts • created by Juan Enrique Ramos Beraud • Sep. 24, 2009 @ 11:30 GMT
What Physics Can and Can't Do? by Narendra Nath
71 posts • created by NARENDRA NATH • Sep. 23, 2009 @ 09:49 GMT
Can God find a place in physics? St. Augustine's philosophy meets general relativity by Ettore Minguzzi
41 posts • created by Ettore Minguzzi • Sep. 22, 2009 @ 12:08 GMT
Synergy Physics - A Holistic View by Stephen A. Brenner
5 posts • created by Stephen A. Brenner • Sep. 22, 2009 @ 12:08 GMT
A Geometrical Approach Towards A Theory of Everything by Ray B Munroe
264 posts • created by Ray B Munroe • Sep. 22, 2009 @ 12:08 GMT
It's the Temperature! by Buz Craft
18 posts • created by Buz Craft • Sep. 22, 2009 @ 12:08 GMT
The fairness principle and the ultimate theory of not everything by Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
76 posts • created by Giovanni Amelino-Camelia • Sep. 17, 2009 @ 10:20 GMT
A New Kind of New Kind of Science by Owen Thomas Cunningham
51 posts • created by Owen Thomas Cunningham • Sep. 17, 2009 @ 10:20 GMT
Quantum Mechanics and the Source of Awareness by Casey Blood
57 posts • created by Casey Blood • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:04 GMT
On Explaining Existence by Dean Rickles
37 posts • created by Dean Rickles • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:04 GMT
Gravity From the Ground Up by Don Limuti
58 posts • created by Don Limuti • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:03 GMT
Energy, Matter, and Scale in an Evolving Universe by Vasile Coman
8 posts • created by Vasile Coman • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:03 GMT
The Ultimately Possible in Physics by Sascha Vongehr
15 posts • created by Sascha Vongehr • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 17:03 GMT
What is Ultimately Possible in Physics? Physics! A Hero’s Journey with Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, Schrodinger, Bohr, and the Greats towards Moving Dimensions Theory. E pur si muove! by Dr. Elliot McGucken
51 posts • created by Dr. Elliot McGucken • Sep. 16, 2009 @ 14:14 GMT
The Infinite Fractal Universe by Robert L. Oldershaw
100 posts • created by Robert L. Oldershaw • Sep. 15, 2009 @ 15:59 GMT
The Intrinsic Structure of the Quantities by Peter van Gaalen
65 posts • created by Peter van Gaalen • Sep. 15, 2009 @ 15:43 GMT
Physics Stops where Natural Metaphysics Starts by Marcel-Marie LeBel
36 posts • created by Marcel-Marie LeBel • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:42 GMT
Turing's Landscape: decidability, computability and complexity in string theory by Abhijnan Rej
23 posts • created by Abhijnan Rej • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:31 GMT
Quantum mechanics from a stochastic least action principle by Joakim David Munkhammar
19 posts • created by Joakim David Munkhammar • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:26 GMT
Could we physically replicate our universe? by Malcolm Macleod
5 posts • created by Malcolm Macleod • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:21 GMT
Taming of the One by Helmut Hansen
30 posts • created by Helmut Hansen • Sep. 11, 2009 @ 12:20 GMT
Ultimate Possibilities of Physics by Ben Baten
29 posts • created by Ben Baten • Sep. 9, 2009 @ 12:13 GMT
What is Ultimately Possible in Physic? by James L De Spears
11 posts • created by James L De Spears • Sep. 9, 2009 @ 11:15 GMT
Is There a System Beyond the Particle? by Mohammed Sanduk
27 posts • created by Mohammed Sanduk • Sep. 4, 2009 @ 11:29 GMT
Perfect Symmetry by Peter A Jackson
139 posts • created by Peter Jackson • Sep. 1, 2009 @ 15:17 GMT
Can we see into a black hole? by Lawrence B Crowell
142 posts • created by Lawrence B Crowell • Sep. 1, 2009 @ 14:46 GMT
Matter-universe to Cluster-matter-universe by Jayakar Johnson Joseph
221 posts • created by Jayakar Johnson Joseph • Sep. 1, 2009 @ 14:46 GMT
Mechanics of a Self-Creating Universe by Anton W. M. Biermans
27 posts • created by Anton W.M. Biermans • Sep. 1, 2009 @ 14:46 GMT
What is Possible for Theoretical Physics? by James A Putnam
62 posts • created by James A Putnam • Aug. 26, 2009 @ 12:32 GMT
The Return of the Gods - Cosmology at its Limits by Ernst Fischer
8 posts • created by Ernst Fischer • Aug. 20, 2009 @ 13:54 GMT
ant among giants. . .a fable by Richard P Dolan
16 posts • created by Richard P Dolan • Aug. 20, 2009 @ 13:54 GMT
What is possible in physics depends on the chosen representational formalism by Lev Goldfarb
105 posts • created by Lev Goldfarb • Aug. 7, 2009 @ 05:28 GMT
How to create an absolute vacuum and a perfectly isolated system by Constantin Zaharia Leshan
36 posts • created by Constantin Zaharia Leshan • Jul. 27, 2009 @ 08:24 GMT
Interferometric detection of gravitational waves: understanding if Einstein's General Relativity is the correct and definitive theory of gravity will be Ultimately Possible in Physics by Christian Corda
81 posts • created by Christian Corda • Jul. 21, 2009 @ 07:56 GMT
Nature of the Universe by Ranganath Gururaj Kulkarni
5 posts • created by Ranganath Gururaj Kulkarni • Jul. 20, 2009 @ 05:50 GMT
A Logical Physical Theory by Nainan K. Varghese
13 posts • created by Nainan K. Varghese • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:17 GMT
Heuristic rule for constructing physics axiomatization by Florin Moldoveanu
283 posts • created by Florin Moldoveanu • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
On the Impossibility of Time Travel by J. C. N. Smith
219 posts • created by J. C. N. Smith • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
A Very Short Story of What is to Come by Alexandre Paradis
4 posts • created by Alexandre Paradis • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
Identical Crisis by Joe Fisher
6 posts • created by Joe Fisher • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
The Math of Hua Luogeng - Another Game in Town by Frank Dodd Smith
6 posts • created by Frank Dodd Smith • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
An Intuitive Explanation for the Existence of Everything by Irvon Eugene Clear
12 posts • created by Irvon Eugene Clear • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
Pursuing the Limits of Failed Symmetry by Alan M. Schwartz
99 posts • created by Alan M. Schwartz • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
Ultimately, anything is possible by Hrvoje Nikolic
35 posts • created by Hrvoje Nikolic • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
To be or not to be strictly deterministic? by Stefan Weckbach
63 posts • created by Stefan Weckbach • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT
Awakening of the Observer in Physics by Amrit Srecko Sorli
190 posts • created by Amrit Srecko Sorli • Jul. 17, 2009 @ 08:16 GMT