Why Does Light Challenge Human Intuition? A photon emitted from a distant galaxy may travel for billions of years before reaching Earth. Astronomers routinely observe light that began its journey long ...

I am grateful to Brian Leiter for his continued engagement with the substance of the State of Scholarship in the Humanities report. Leiter’s main concern is that we overstate the case against the type ...

The passage of time is inextricably tied to how humans perceive our own experiences. We confuse our perspective on reality with reality itself. “Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on” ...

This is one of the most prominent interpretations regarding the nature of time, constructed based on Einstein's "Theory of Relativity." It is a cosmological hypothesis in physics and philosophy that ...

Black holes are usually described as regions where gravity becomes so strong that nothing can escape, formed when massive stars collapse beyond a critical threshold. While this is the standard picture ...

“Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on”: The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out there in the world.

One of Einstein’s most famous quotes is “imagination is more important than knowledge”. This spirit of bold thinking led Einstein to bring together two powerful but seemingly conflicting ideas: ...

Light is mysterious, isn't it? I'd like to introduce a video where you can experience the speed of light. Let's touch upon the theme of how "the way we see the universe" changes depending on how we ...

Carlo Rovelli is a physicist at Aix–Marseille University, Marseille, France, and an associate member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in London, Ontario, Canada. Nature seems to have played us ...