The size of the universe is no more depressing than the size of a cow.

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Comp…

As I understand it, the claim is that the less you use Homeopathy, the better it works. Sounds plausible to me.[1]

Kuhn's theory suffers from a fatal flaw. It explains the succession from one paradigm to another in sociological or psychological terms, rather than as having …

This entire globe, this star, not being subject to death, and dissolution and annihilation being impossible anywhere in Nature, from time to time renews itself…

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smok…