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Hawking and the End of Physics

Is physics ending? Serious people say so, not always seriously. Are they right and should we care? In 1996 American science writer John Horgan wrote a book, The End of Science. His thesis was that all the big stuff has been done already, that what he calls ‘the primordial human quest to understand the universe […]

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The Problem of Whether Reality Is Real

Text books say that it’s a metaphysics problem: Outside of the mind, is all this real? And, if it is, what is it? Tegmark focuses the metaphysics using this hypothesis: ‘There exists an external physical reality completely independent of us humans.’ So far this remains unproven. Thus for those who think it true it is […]