Skeptophilia

It will come as no particular shock to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I have a fascination for quantum physics.  Not that I can say I...

One of the downsides of being a layperson rather than a scientist (and I very much consider myself to be the former, despite having been a s...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three scientists who have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that our common-sense perception ...

Every time I hear some new discovery in quantum physics, I think, "Okay, it can't get any weirder than this." Each time, I tur...