The Infinite Universe

The mind may be incapable of understanding quantum mechanics intuitively

The Nobel Laureate physicist Richard Feynman famously said, “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” There has long been a…

Oct 16 • 

Tim Andersen

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Quantum theory may be more like Einstein's relativity than we think

In June this year, 300 people, including physicists, four Nobel Laureates, and journalists, converged on an island in the North Sea called Heligoland.

Oct 10 • 

Tim Andersen

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September 2025

Why there is something instead of nothing may all be about perspective

Make an “O” shape with your thumb and forefinger and contemplate it.

Sep 29 • 

Tim Andersen

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Nearby dark matter cloud may have been discovered

A team of researchers may have discovered a cloud of dark matter in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Sep 24 • 

Tim Andersen

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Dark matter galaxies may not exist

The question is why

Sep 20 • 

Tim Andersen

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Time may emerge from quantum entanglement with clocks

There is a fairly large group of physicists who believe that time is a statistical phenomenon like temperature and pressure.

Sep 16 • 

Tim Andersen

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What can destroy a black hole?

Black holes are the densest and most powerful objects known to our species.

Sep 3 • 

Tim Andersen

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August 2025

The dominant model of cosmology may be falling apart

Challenges to the ΛCDM can no longer be ignored

Aug 27 • 

Tim Andersen

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Feynman may have been wrong about Brownian ratchets

A Brownian ratchet is any device that can harvest energy from Brownian motion, that is, random thermal motion such as the motion of air particles in a…

Aug 18 • 

Tim Andersen

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July 2025

What does evil weigh?

The question in the title may seem nonsensical, like what is the melting point of the number three?

Jul 29 • 

Tim Andersen

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How the West overtook China in science and technology and what that means today

If you ask when science began, you will get different answers.

Jul 24 • 

Tim Andersen

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Peter Putnam, the Wittgenstein of Physics, and his long lost commentary on the Many Worlds Interpretation

I have for a long time been searching for applications of the philosophy of Wittgenstein, particularly later Wittgenstein, to physics.

Jul 14 • 

Tim Andersen

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