Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your ...

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics ...

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One of the most famous paradoxes ever, the grandfather paradox, cautions against making changes that could break the timeline if you were to ever travel back in time. But, according to one scientist, ...