Physicists used to search for the smallest components of the universe. What if that’s not the point?
How physics at the roots of reality point to a grand unified theory | Aeon Essays
Physics displays an uncanny alignment at its very deepest levels. Is a grand theory of everything finally within reach?
70-year-old quantum prediction comes true, as something is created from nothing
In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.
What Theory is Not, Theorizing Is
Spirits and the incompleteness of physics
Complexity, renormalization, and the spirits beyond the horizon of theory
Quantum Leap: Google Claims Its New Quantum Computer Provides Evidence That We Live In A Multiverse
Google's quantum computer, Willow, suggests evidence for a multiverse by leveraging computations across parallel universes.
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its silence. It seems like we’re the only ones here. After all, if other forms of
Bernhard Mueller on Twitter / X
Our Theory-of-Everything, OPH, completely unifies the Standard Model with gravity: A SINGLE constant determines both Newton's constant G and the particle spectrum. Mass-less photons, gravitons and gluons emerge for free. https://t.co/dUh6TLAlop— Bernhard Mueller (@muellerberndt) April 4, 2026
The Curiously Playable Universe
More of the universe appears to be more playable than we expected
In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything | Quanta Magazine
Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.
Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve | Quanta Magazine
Computer scientists have been searching for years for a type of problem that a quantum computer can solve but that any possible future classical computer cannot. Now they’ve found one.
Is the Multiverse in the Mind or is the Mind in the Multiverse? with Bernard Carr
How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
Lee Smolin’s radical idea to reimagine how we view the universe.
ORI Polls App
The director of research at the Qualia Research Institute recently posted this poll asking whether people believed in universes with different laws of physics
Why the universe has giant empty regions - Sensemaker
Cosmic voids are not holes in space. They are the gravitationally amplified low points of the early universe.