WEEKEND EDITION essayist Tim Brookes recently tackled a whole remodeling project. There were problems, of course, but Tim found a solution. TIM BROOKES: My wife, Barbara, decided to move her therapy ...
In the first half of the semester, we will discuss philosophical problems of classical mechanics and classical field theories: the persistence of matter, modality, the representation of mechanical ...
In other words, why is there something rather than nothing? This ultimate mystery in philosophy and physics has been called ...
The modern scientific world prides itself on precision, empirical rigour, and the pursuit of measurable truth. Yet, some of its most revolutionary discoveries—particularly in quantum physics—have ...
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Being and becoming

Modern cosmology often presents itself as the most triumphant extension of physics. It has traced the history of the universe from fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies ...
German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s angst-ridden non-answer to what he called “the fundamental question” was that a fear of nothing was the defining feature of the human condition. We certainly seem ...
THE impossibility of eliminating the relations of complementarity from atomic physics is not a question of opinion but a simple logical point, as devoid of obscurity, as, for example, the ...