But if electrons can exist in parallel states hovering between existence and nonexistence, then why can’t the universe? After all, at one point the universe was smaller than an electron. Once we intro...
Because these two electrons are entangled, that is, their wave functions beat in unison, their wave functions are connected by an invisible thread or umbilical cord. Whatever happens to one automatica...
At rest, we know that its circumference is equal to p times the diameter. Once the merry-go-round is set into motion, however, the outer rim travels faster than the interior and hence, according to re...
Another clue to the cause of aging might be telomerase, which helps to regulate our biological clock. Every time a cell divides, the tips of the chromosomes, called telomeres, get a bit shorter. Event...
An even more advanced form of uploading your mind into a computer was envisioned by computer scientist Hans Moravec. When I interviewed him, he claimed that his method of uploading the human mind coul...
Although consciousness is a patchwork of competing and often contradictory tendencies, the left brain ignores inconsistencies and papers over obvious gaps in order to give us a smooth sense of a singl...
Also, some dreams can incorporate events that happened a few hours earlier, just before sleep. But dreams mostly incorporate memories that are a few days old. For example, experiments have shown that...
Algunos están gobernados por líderes incompetentes, se encuentran fragmentados cultural y étnicamente hasta el punto de llegar a la disfunción, y no producen los bienes que el resto del mundo desea ad...
According to Einstein, there is no gravitational pull. The earth warps the space-time continuum around our bodies, so space itself pushes us down to the floor. Thus, it is the presence of matter that...
A continuación, dijo algo que me llamó la atención. Señaló que estaba viendo lo mismo por segunda vez en su vida. Las mentes más brillantes de Princeton no se dedicaban ya a abordar los difíciles prob...
The laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the...
The entire electromagnetic spectrum— from radar to TV, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, microwaves, and gamma rays— is nothing but Maxwell waves, which in turn are vibrating F...
The secret of unification, we will see, lies in expanding Riemann's metric to N-dimensional space and then chopping it up into rectangular pieces. Each rectangular piece corresponds to a different for...
However, animals apparently dream differently than we do. In the dolphin, for example, only one hemisphere at a time sleeps in order to prevent drowning, because they are air-breathing mammals, not fi...
ليست الانفعالات مشاعر على الإطلاق، لكنها مجموعة من آليات بقاء مزروعة في الجسم تطورت لتحولنا بعيدا عن الخطر، وتدفعنا إلى الأمام نحو أشياء ربما تكون مفيدة
إن ما نعتبره حقيقة هو مجرد تقريب يقوم به العقل لملء الثغرات؛ كل منا يرى الحقيقة بطريقة مختلفة.
We will look ahead to a time when we will be able to move beyond the solar system and explore the nearby stars. Again, this mission surpasses our current technology, but fifth wave technologies will m...
To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth l...
Las leyes de la física admiten la posibilidad de abrir un agujero en el espacio concentrando suficiente energía en un punto, hasta que accedemos al espacio-tiempo espumoso y emergen agujeros de gusano...
Cuando se produce un conflicto entre la tecnología moderna y los deseos de nuestros primitivos antepasados, los deseos primitivos siempre ganan. Este es el Principio del Hombre de las Cavernas.