Quantum Non-Linearity

Complex Systems Theory:  I recently watched the three episodes of “The Trap”, a documentary screened on BBC2 on Sunday night. The program s...

It is sometimes said amongst physicists that we should take the predictions of our theories seriously, even when those theories predict se...

The following is some correspondence I had with Paul Davies on his latest book “The Goldilocks Enigma” (Penguin/Allen Lane 2006) Dear Pa...

My fireside reading this Xmas was Paul Davies’ latest book “The Goldilocks Enigma”. This book attempts an exhaustive review of contemporary...

I was looking for some text to go with the cartoon on the left, so I decided to accompany it with an extract from a speculative book I sta...

“ If a man dreamt of a great pile of stones he would dream of such a pile as the Cheesewring ”; so writes a Victorian antiquarian of the ...

Some years time ago, whilst I was working as a programmer, a software engineer who was aware of my physics background approached me and ...

Children start life unable to speak but quickly learn the language of their culture. It has been remarked that the actual contact time chil...

Somebody recently e-mailed me the following: You might want to consider the "Documentary method of interpretation'': Garfinke...

An article in the BBC online magazine relates the story of the Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, a pioneer of stem-cell research, who went ...

What draws some people to develop fundamental theories of physics even though they are well beyond the circles of the professional physics...