Just common sense, really
ABSTRACT
A central tenet of the Copenhagen Interpretation, a term that embraces all of quantum physics from Heisenberg’s description of Bohr’s understanding up to and including the current consensus, is that the Arrow of Time points from the past to … Read the rest
It is a familiar enough scene, not just to the creatures of the Serengeti, but nowadays to anyone born within the sound of David Attenborough. In the shimmering heat of the African plain a herd of antelope … Read the rest
Why do humans argue about what’s right and what’s wrong? Why don’t they just know? Birds do; bees do, and for all I know, even educated fleas do. They just know stuff. Birds will … Read the rest
By any criteria, especially Dawkins’s own concept of meme propagation, his theory of gene-centric evolution has been one of the most successful scientific theories of all time, dominating the field of genetics since he introduced it, … Read the rest
In 1946, Albert Einstein was in sombre mood. Gone was the euphoria of his annus mirabilis forty years earlier, when his paper on the equivalence of mass and energy was first published. Now, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki fresh in his … Read the rest
In the bustling Cairo markets of 3,000 years ago, when the earliest Egyptian pyramids were well into their second millennium, eggs were being sold pretty much as they are today, i.e. in dozens and half-dozens. The reason for this, then … Read the rest