Skeptophilia

One of the more terrifying concepts to arise out of physics is the idea of the Boltzmann brain . The Boltzmann brain was first postulated by...

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

I hope y'all will indulge me one more astronomical post, because just this week in the journal Science Advances there was a very cool p...

To start out with the tl:dr -- no, despite what you may have heard, physicists do not have a working model of a warp drive . Look, no one wo...

Some days, being a skeptic is a losing proposition. Only days after I posted a desperate plea for people to please  check sources before pos...

One of the most enduring mysteries of physics is why the fundamental constants have the values they do. I remember first thinking about this...

The cause of lightning has been strangely elusive. Oh, in the broadest-brush terms, we've understood it for a while.  The rapidly-risin...

I don't know if you've had the experience of running into a relatively straightforward concept that your brain just doesn't seem...

In the very peculiar Doctor Who  episode "Joy to the World," the character of Joy Almondo is being controlled by a device inside a...