Laura received her Masters in Physics and Cosmology from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include the early universe cosmology, fundamental principles and metaphysics.
Philosophy
Martin Fleming is a philosopher of mind, BBC Thought of the Day regular, and member of the Science and Philosophy Initiative. There was a case happening in the USA last June in which a mother is suing an AI company called Character AI for influencing her 14-year-old son to end
Philosophy
The Adventures of Time Time is a polysemous thing with many activities. Time is causality, it is change, becoming, duration, succession, cycles, rhythm, temporality, time flows, time is now, present, futur and past. And sometimes mathematics tell us time is imaginary, an illusion, an arrow, a coordinate, a parameter t.
History of Science
An Ode to Abstraction Growing up with colors and pastels in my hands, I spent a generous amount of years confused by other people qualifying my art as abstract. It was not until I looked at somebody looking at my painting that I understood from their gaze that we were
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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow mountaineers.
Philosophy
While metaphors love to roam free, some things are best kept in their box, or their context, it is especially relevant when we talk about presuppositions and referential systems in science. Metaphysical presuppositions are like power outlets—you can plug all kinds of tools into them, but only if you
Cosmology
Warm wind, Floridian streets, evening light, we are listening to a song on the radio. Note by note, each word following another, initially our attention is focused sequentially on the music. What would it look like if suddenly our attention could become larger, taking a step back from the unfolding
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I’ve been pondering a slippery question for some time now: What exists before a thing becomes a thing? It arose one quiet afternoon as I reflected on *information structures*. In physics we can sometimes hear that information precedes matter and form, or in the language of the dauntless physicist
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In the quest to understand the universe across all scales, certain concepts have sparked particular fascination during my early studies for their radical potential in foundational physics—among them, the idea of causation, holographic principles, relationalism, and nonlocality. What makes these ideas so compelling is that they speak directly to
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For millennia, humanity has projected its perception of reality onto nature and woven it into stories—the mountain reaching toward the heavens, the sun as a life-giving force, and the forest whispering ancient wisdom. These interpretations are not mere myths but expressions of an intuitive grasp of wholeness—the idea
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