Quanta Magazine
A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate
10 min read · From 2018 · Psychedelic drugs can trigger characteristic hallucinations, which have long been thought to hold clues about the brain’s circuitry. After nearly a century of study, a possible explanation is crystallizing.
Shared by 57, including Kim Schläpfer, Oleg Baskov, 瑞拿頭, Psymposia, hiten.eth
AI Papers
A Class of Models with the Potential to Represent Fundamental Physics
From 2020 · A class of models intended to be as minimal and structureless as possible is introduced. Even in cases with simple rules, rich and complex behavior is found to emerge, and striking correspondences to…
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Quanta Magazine
Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law
9 min read · From 2017 · A potent theory has emerged explaining a mysterious statistical law that arises throughout physics and mathematics.
Shared by 30, including Mattia Fregola 🤔, Kevin Mitchell, Taylor Pearson, 瑞拿頭
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The Self-Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
From 2020 · We modify the simulation hypothesis to a self-simulation hypothesis, where the physical universe, as a strange loop, is a mental self-simulation that might exist as one of a broad class of possible…
Reader View · Shared by 12, including 瑞拿頭, Matthias Lampe, Brian Roemmele
Big Think
New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence
4 min read · From 2020 · A physics paper proposes neither you nor the world around you are real.
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Nautilus Magazine
Abstractions on Nautilus: How Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm
From 2020
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It’s Time, But Not as we Know it
2 min read · From 2019 · Time could behave strangely in the quantum world, a new thought experiment suggests…
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We Still Don’t Understand Why Time Only Flows Forward
6 min read · From 2018 · The past is gone, the future not yet here, only the present is now. But why does it always flow the way it does for us?
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Futurism
New lasers may be powerful enough to drill a hole in reality
1 min read · From 2019
Shared by 14, including John Nosta, 瑞拿頭, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
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The n-Category Café
5 min read · From 2019 · I’ve been trying to understand the Riemann Hypothesis a bit better. Don’t worry, I’m not trying to prove it — that’s a dangerous quest. Indeed Ricardo Pérez-Marco has a whole list of things not to do…
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The Poincaré Conjecture
~20 min read · From 2019 · What is the shape of the universe?
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The StartUp
New Study Suggests Dark matter predates the ‘Big Bang’ — but what does that actually mean?
10 min read · From 2019 · New research suggests that dark matter may predate the Big Bang, but that finding has been somewhat misrepresented in the mainstream media.
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Nautilus Magazine
The Computer Maverick Who Modeled the Evolution of Life
~11 min read · From 2019 · In 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack…
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Quanta Magazine
Einstein, Symmetry and the Future of Physics
~11 min read · From 2019 · Lurking behind Einstein’s theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on…
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Futurism
New quantum device can "generate all possible futures"
1 min read · From 2019
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Futurism
Our reality could be a "hologram" created by quantum physics
1 min read · From 2019 · The four dimensions of spacetime that we experience could be like a hologram projected by a three-dimensional quantum state.
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