Skeptophilia

I first ran into the fine-tuning argument around twenty-five years ago when I read astrophysicist Martin Rees 's wonderful book Just Six...

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...

I was saddened to hear of the death of the brilliant British physicist Peter Higgs on Monday, April 8, at the grand old age of 94.  Higgs i...

I'm currently reading the 2006 book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions , by the brilliant...

A couple of days ago, I was talking with my son about the Standard Model of Particle Physics (as one does). The Standard Model is a theoret...

Many of you undoubtedly know about CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the world's largest particle physics laboratory...

Sometimes I feel like all I do in this blog is to deliver bad news.  Gullibility and credulousness are rampant, not to mention hoaxers and c...