A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be ...

Andromeda sounds far away because 2.5 million light-years sounds far away. It lands with authority. It feels exact. It gives you the comfort of a labeled universe, one where galaxies, stars and ...

Alyssa Ney is professor and chair of metaphysics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany. This week, physicists are ...

As we go about our daily lives, we tend to assume that our perceptions—sights, sounds, textures, tastes—are an accurate portrayal of the real world. Sure, when we stop and think about it—or when we ...

Have you ever lain awake at 3 AM, staring at the ceiling, wrestling with a thought so profound it makes your brain hurt?

As Joe Howlett points out, "the Schrödinger equation remains physicists’ foremost window into the quantum realm. It tells scientists how that strange world works; that is, how quantum objects interact ...