Saturday at the Wheeler Opera House, the one-day symposium “Frontiers of Knowledge” will explore groundbreaking discoveries ...

Avid readers of Physics World will know that we have for many years published a monthly column called “Critical Point” written by Robert P Crease, a historian and philosopher of science from Stony ...

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What does it mean to be to space-time? The seemingly simple question gets to the essence of twentieth-century physics and has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. One of the evergreen topics in my social-media circles has to do with ...

Elias Zafiris holds an M.Sc. (Distinction) in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College, University of London, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Imperial College. He is ...

The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. To ...

Physicists typically think they “need philosophers and historians of science like birds need ornithologists,” the Nobel laureate David Gross told a roomful of philosophers, historians, and physicists ...

Philosophy Needs Physics. Physics Needs Philosophy | RealClearScienceContrary to claims about the irrelevance of philosophy for science, philosophy has always had, and still has, far more influence on ...

Peter Evans receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Foundational Questions Institute. The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled ...