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The problem with negative energy is not just "blasphemy", it is that you can have endless creation of something from nothing. You can go...

Noncomputability is a different thing from nondeterminism. It's actually related to undecidability, as is seen in the halting problem...

There is no consensus about how anything physical, classical or quantum, manages to relate to consciousness; and yet there needs to be...

I worked for Hameroff for a year. I consider their theory a great contribution, because of how mind-opening it is. In my opinion, if...

Yang-Mills is just ordinary quantum field theory; the strong and weak nuclear force are both Yang-Mills forces. But the reference to a...

Could you point to one or two examples, of the math you think looks like string theory?

It's not a state that leads to self-annihilation because it's not about having an atom and an anti-atom in the same branch of the...

This is an alert about a claim regarding the standard model, that got a burst of attention in the past two weeks. The original paper...

May I emphasize that the authors are talking about Euclidean 4-space. The point being that QFT calculations are often carried out in a...

An almost-phenomenological paper has appeared which cites some of this work: "Fixed points of classical gravity coupled with a...