Tag: quantum mechanics

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
September 23, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alexander Vilenkin, Boltzmann brain, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, cosmologists, Everettian universe, fine-tuning, Hartle-Hawking model, Ijjas-Steinhardt model, inflationary string landscape, intelligent design, John Leslie, knowledge, Lawrence Krauss, metalevels, observer-selection effect, past-eternality, quantum cosmology, quantum mechanics, Samson, Sean Carroll, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, temporal beginning, The Grand Design, The Telegraph, universe, Vilenkin model}

So, You Say that No Cosmologists Have Ever Claimed the Universe Came from Nothing?

_{Bruce Gordon
September 23, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

6}

Like mighty Samson of old, in a single-handed effort physicist Bruce Gordon responded to 1,870+ comments. Read More ›

Artistic depiction of many worlds interpretation showing several Earth-like planets across parallel universes

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
August 13, 2026

Categories
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, Acts of the Apostles, Betteridge’s Law, Born rule, branching, Chiara Marletto, Closer to Truth, David Albert, David Deutsch, David Wallace, decoherence, entanglement, Everettians, formalism, Gedankenwelt, Haag’s theorem, headlines, Hugh Everett, interviews, journalists, many-worlds interpretation, mathematics, Oxford University, particle physics, physics, possibilities, quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, quantum probabilities, quantum theory, qubits, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Rudolf Haag, Standard Model, sufficient reason, thought-world, universal wavefunction}

Searching for a World, Any World, in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

_{Bruce Gordon
August 13, 2026

Mathematics, Physics

17}

Journalists have a general rule for headlines called “Betteridge’s Law” that seems to apply in this case. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Dean Rickles, dual aspect monism, fine-tuning, Graham Phillips, illusion, John Archibald Wheeler, Leonard Susskind, many universes, materialism, materialists, multiverse, Paul Davies, Princeton University, quantum mechanics, Sydney University, Templeton Ideas, theoretical physicists, universe}

Quantum Mechanics Has Destroyed Classical Materialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 22, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

5}

Whatever this fundamental level of reality that combines mind and matter is, it is — by definition — deeper than human thought can reach. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 27, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, church, compassion, contradictions, electrons, Elizabeth Urbanowicz, emotional intelligence, Energy, faith and science, general relativity, graduate students, light, Mass, quantum mechanics, Scripture, sensitivity, space, stars, students, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, tensions, undergraduates, understanding, Young Earth Creationism}

Brian Miller on Emotional Intelligence in Science, Scientific Tensions, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
March 27, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

3}

The context is when students with a religious background enter the sciences at the undergraduate or graduate level. Read More ›

Capture the essence of collective consciousness through digital connectivity by visualizing it in a dynamic and visually striking manner from a worms-eye view Create a design that symbolizes

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
March 4, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, artificial intelligence, awareness, brain, brain localization, brain processes, Brian Krouse, cognitive science, computer engineering, computer science, consciousness, Denyse O’Leary, emergentism, George Gilder, idealism, integrated information, Integrated information theory, mental properties, Michael Egnor, microtubules, mind, mind–brain dualism, Minding the Brain, naturalism, neuroscience, neurosurgery, panpsychism, particles, philosophy, psychology, quantum consciousness, quantum mechanics, Roger Penrose, simulation theory, Stuart Hameroff, The Immortal Mind, The Matrix, The Truman Show, universe}

Conscious AI, You Say? Here Are Six Models of Consciousness

_{Robert J. Marks II
March 4, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

6}

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a mathematically founded emergence model. Michael Egnor and I recently published a paper critiquing IIT. Read More ›

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post

Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
February 27, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Andrew Loke, Bayesian reasoning, Boltzmann brains, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, chemistry, Chris Smeenk, cosmology, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Ian Hacking, Ken Olum, Kenny Boyce, loop quantum cosmology, Luke Barnes, naturalism, nuclear physics, Philip Swenson, philosophers, Porter Williams, quantum mechanics, Roger White, Sean Carroll, stellar structure, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism}

Fine-Tuning and the Infinite Multiverse

_{Bruce Gordon
February 27, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

10}

An endless multiverse is a context in which every outcome occurs infinitely many times, rendering calculations of probability ill-defined. Read More ›

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post

Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
February 13, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, atheists, background theory, Bayesian reasoning, constants, cosmologists, cosmology, E. F. Hutton, Eric Hedin, fine-tuning, fingerprints, Friedrich Schleiermacher, galaxies, God of the gaps, gravity, Hans Halvorson, human centrality, Leonard Susskind, Luke Barnes, multiverse, philosophy of science, physicist, quantum mechanics, scientific reasoning, Sean Carroll, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theists, Victor Stenger}

The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers

_{Bruce Gordon
February 13, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

19}

Carroll is a prolific physicist and cosmologist who has been a prominent popularizer of science. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 26, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alan H. Guth, Alexander Vilenkin, Arvind Borde, Battle of the Big Bang, Big Bang, cosmology, designer substitute, galaxies, general relativity, gravity, hydrogen, Isaac Newton, mathematics, Michael G Strauss, mind, natural laws, Niayesh Afshordi, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Planck time, quantum gravity, quantum mechanics, Schrödinger equation, Singularity, stars, universe}

Can Equations Serve as a Designer Substitute?

_{Eric Hedin
January 26, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

6}

To achieve “something rather than nothing” requires more than an equation, more than mathematics. Read More ›

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, atoms, Brian Miller, cosmos, electromagnetism, Ellie Feder, fine-tuning, gravity, intelligent design, laws of nature, life, molecules, podcast, quantum mechanics, Schrödinger equation, stars, Theory of Everything, universe, weirdness}

Beyond Fine-Tuning: Why the Laws of Nature Indicate Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 2, 2025

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

3}

The dream of finding a unique, logically necessary “theory of everything” has failed, which leaves an intriguing question: Why these specific laws? Read More ›

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post

Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, consciousness, Daily Mail, David Klinghoffer, life after death, near-death experiences, panpsychism, physicists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, quantum mechanics, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Hawking, telepathy, terminal lucidity, Thomas Henry Huxley, universe, Uppsala University}

According to New Physics Model, Consciousness Underlies the Universe

_{Science & Culture
December 1, 2025

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

2}

We live in a universe closer to the vision of Plato (c. 427 – 348 BC) than of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). Read More ›