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It’s about time: how sci-fi has described Einstein’s universe
A century after the publication of the general theory of relativity, sci-fi is still grappling with its implications, and still trying to explain it to the rest of us. By Damien Walter.
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Physics’s pangolin
Trying to resolve the stubborn paradoxes of their field, physicists craft ever more mind-boggling visions of reality. By Margaret Wertheim. (June ’13)
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Hold Up, Did We Just Crack Time Travel?
Astrophysicists famously proved Einstein’s theory on the existence of gravitational waves last week. Here’s the less covered part of it all: It might, down the line, bring us closer to moving through time. By Michael Howard.
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How time travel works in Star Trek
It's 2016, meaning we have now 50 years of Trek time paradoxes to explore. By Xaq Rzetelny.
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The Aspirational Science of Predictive Dreaming
Some scientists say psychic dreams are real. Explaining how they happen is another issue altogether. By Geraldine Cremin. (Jan. 27)
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Could Daylight Saving Time Increase Your Risk Of Stroke?
Turning the clock ahead or back one hour may do more than mess with our sleep cycle.
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How the 1% Gardens
Somehow, airlifting a tree into place misses the point. By James E. McWilliams. (Feb. 22)
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Why doesn’t physics help us to understand the flow of time?
From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics? By Gene Tracy.
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The Voyager Golden Records and the Trouble With Time Capsules
A close examination of the Voyager Golden Records reveals the one flaw behind all attempts to bottle history: humans. By Cara Giaimo.
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The Wyrd of the Early Earth
Cellular Pre-sense in the Primordial Soup. By Eric Wargo.
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Physicists just found a link between dark energy and the arrow of time
Is dark energy the reason time moves forward? By Brendan Cole. (May 20, ’16)
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Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Race
Time-travel narratives and bygone bigotry in “11.22.63” and ‘Back to the Future.’ By Mik Awake.
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The Physics of Hope
I never liked physics much. I’m not just talking about the math. I don’t like what modern physics tells us: that time is an illusion, for one thing. That we live in a reality where everything that ever was, and ever will be, always is.... By Peter Watts.
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The quantum origin of time
In our experience the past is the past and the future is the future, but sometimes the two can cross over. By Philip Ball.
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Our universe could be reborn as a bouncing baby cosmos
A new model shows how the universe could survive a "big bounce" rather than a big bang, without the need for complex new physics. By Lisa Grossman. (July 11, 2016)
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A Debate Over the Physics of Time
According to our best theories of physics, the universe is a fixed block where time only appears to pass. Yet a number of physicists hope to replace this “block universe” with a physical theory of time. By Dan Falk.
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What's It Like to See Ideas as Shapes?
Thoughts and feelings are constellations in the mind of a man with a rare form of synesthesia. By Alissa Greenberg.
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Meet the scientist on a quest to reunite with his dead father - by building a time machine
Way back in time, in the mid 1950s, 10-year-old Ron Mallett was growing up in the Bronx when he happened upon a comic-book that had a curious contraption on the cover... By Will Storr.
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A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes. By James Gleick.
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Scientists stop light in a cloud of atoms
Australian scientists have stopped light in a cloud of very cold atoms, a development that provides a essential building block for quantum computing. By Dani Cooper. (Sept. 26, 2016)
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