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Category: Metaphysics

It’s Been Real. Hasn’t It?

6 November, 2009 (03:00) | Metaphysics, Physics |

What is reality?
“What do we really describe in physics?” he [Zeilinger] asked. “Do we describe reality? Is it out there?”
Classical physicists would have said yes, resoundingly. Studying physics reveals nature’s workings, providing an explicit map of reality’s subtleties. Those subtleties would be there whether we figured out how to question and extract them.
But in [...]

Extra Credit Assignment: The Nature of Things

22 September, 2008 (03:44) | Metaphysics, Physics |

Via Shores of the Dirac Sea I find The FQXi Inaugural Essay Contest (Summer 2008): THE NATURE OF TIME
Each essay contest will focus on a particular theme, question, or subject that the submitted work must directly address. For the current contest, this is “The Nature of Time,” including, but not limited to, the arrow [...]

 

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