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10 paradoxes that will stretch your mind
From time-traveling billiard balls to information-destroying black holes, the world's got plenty of puzzles that are hard to wrap your head around.
How trying to solve death makes life, here and now, worse
Maybe we should stop worrying about what happens after we die, and make the best of what we have on earth right now.
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New controversial theory: Past, present, future exist simultaneously
Our experience of time may be blinding us to its true nature, say scientists.
You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time
What if entanglement also occurs across time? Is there such a thing as temporal nonlocality?
Einstein and the day the Earth stood still
A debate over the physics of time in an alleged "block universe."
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How the Brain Keeps Time
Neuroscientists discover networks of neurons that stretch or compress their activity to control timing Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Timing is critical for playing a musical instrument, swinging a […]
Scientists reverse the arrow of time in quantum systems
A team of researchers reverses the arrow of time in quantum experiments.
You’re Not Fast Enough to Swat a Fly—Here’s Why
Flies are in no way smart, but they experience time in an almost Matrix-like way.
Learn How to Think Like Einstein
Albert Einstein's famous thought experiments led to groundbreaking ideas.
How Your Mental State Affects Your Experience of Time
How we remember time is vastly different to how we experience it, says neuroscientist Dean Buonomano.
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Two Theories of Time, and What They Mean for Time Travel
When it comes to time, and what the heck it actually is, there's a clash of ideas between physics and neuroscience.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Strange Paradoxes of Time Travel
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the nature of time and the conundrums of time travel in a recent interview.
Hey Bill Nye! Is Time Real?
Time is this wild fourth dimension in nature, says Bill Nye. We depend on its neat measurements for survival – but subjectively it continues to elude us.
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Time Might Not Exist Outside of Our Minds, Propose Scientists
Researchers create a new theory of time that goes against established physics.