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This morning I was casting about for topics for Skeptophilia  and happened upon one that kind of made my brain explode.  Part of this was I ...

One of the reasons I get so impatient with woo-woos is that science is plenty cool enough without making shit up. But because quantum physic...

When I was about twenty, I stumbled upon the book The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukav.  The book provides a non-mathematical introducti...

I'm going to make a dual plea to all y'all: Before you accept a paranormal or supernatural explanation for something, make sure you...

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...

In response to a post I did a while back about the tendency of people to believe loony ideas if they're couched in ten-dollar vocabulary...

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...

One of the most frustrating things for insatiably curious laypeople like myself is to find that despite our deep and abiding interest in a t...

One of the most bizarre (and misunderstood) features of quantum physics is indeterminacy . This is because we live in a macroscopic universe...