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Information Physics
A new framework suggests that bursts of neural chaos could be the fingerprints of a conscious mind at work.
Quantum entanglement links information between particles across space and time. So what happens when one of them falls into a black hole?
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"If we're related to every living thing on the planet, do we not have a special responsibility for every living thing on this planet? They are really all our relatives."
We need a "theory that explains the evolution of evolution," argues theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker.
Black holes encode information on their surfaces, but evaporate away into Hawking radiation. Is that information preserved, and if so, how?
In "Life As No One Knows It," Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of "things" is how life uses information.
Physicists have increasingly begun to view life as information-processing "states of matter" that require special consideration.
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“We could be wrong. But if we are right, it’s profoundly important.” Leading mineralogist Dr. Robert Hazen on the missing law of nature that could explain why life emerges.
John Templeton Foundation
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
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Is information intrinsic in our universe? NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains.
The second law of thermodynamics is an inviolable law of reality. Here's what everyone should know about closed, open, and isolated systems.
We don’t need to think about what life is made of but rather what it does.
The matter that creates black holes won't be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
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Quantum wormholes are mathematically possible — but might also be physically impossible. Physicist Janna Levin explains Hawking’s famous information paradox.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
John Templeton Foundation
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Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
John Templeton Foundation
It's spooky, and it's happening all around us. And inside us.
Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.
We are not yet at the point where quantum communications can be deployed to secure the internet, but we might not be far off.
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
According to renowned physicist Christophe Galfard, physics can’t explain our universe - yet.
John Templeton Foundation
Symmetrical objects are less complex than non-symmetrical ones. Perhaps evolution acts as an algorithm with a bias toward simplicity.
The act of observing doesn’t just determine a previously indeterminate state, but can destroy information, too. Imagine that you’re a scientist attempting to understand reality at a fundamental level. How […]
It’s a pipe dream that violates the laws of physics, and not even quantum mechanics can give us a way out. One of the most fundamental rules of physics, undisputed since […]
When two black holes merge together, about 5% of their mass gets lost. Where does that information go? Do merging black holes lose information? They absolutely must, according to General […]