It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.
From Stephen Hawking
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.
I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.
The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.
Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'
M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.
The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.
33 perspectives
23 perspectives
18 perspectives
16 perspectives
15 perspectives
4 perspectives
3 perspectives